Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years in Prison for the Lulz
Tiny angry hacker Jeremy Hammond, a known leftist and anarchist, who used hack attacks to take down public safety sites and stole information from Stratfor, was sentenced, in what was sure to be the lulziest sentencing hearing evah, to 10 years in a “pound me in the ass” prison. Relatives cried, but not before Hammond gave a shoutout to the gayest soldier ever to serve in the military- Bradley Manning- by calling his Wikileaks data theft “brave” and calling Manning by his gay name of “Chelsea.” Good riddance to bad rubbish.
From FoxNews here:
Convicted hacker Jeremy Hammond — who was arrested with information from turncoat hacker Hector “Sabu” Monsegur, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for illegally accessing computers systems of law enforcement agencies and government contractors.
In an emotional proceeding that lasted more than 2 hours in a Manhattan federal court room on Friday, victims and relatives of Hammond railed against the FBI and shed tears on his behalf following the sentencing. One overwrought person claiming to be a victim was forcibly escorted from the court by officers.
Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska said Hammond’s digital handiwork had compromised thousands of people’s personal and financial data, including the unpublished phone numbers and addresses of law enforcement, who then received threats. Hammond tried unsuccessfully to argue that his actions were politically motivated, she said.
“He claims he did it to expose certain law enforcement policies he opposed … but his Arizona public safety hack forced the public safety site to shut down its sex offender website, fingerprinting system and amber alert system,” Preska said.
“In his own words, Mr. Hammond had a stated goal of ‘creating maximum mayhem.’”
Among other items, Hammond was found guilty of the Dec. 2011 hack into the computer systems of global intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor. Speaking about that hack, Preska had equally strong words.
“His goal was, citing Hammond’s own words at the time, ‘to destroy the target, hoping for bankruptcy, collapse.’”
Hammond, who has been behind bars for the past 20 months and pled guilty in May, said he was introduced to politics when George W. Bush “stole the election in 2000.”
“I was following groups like Wikileaks and Anonymous and was particularly moved by the heroic acts of Chelsea Manning,” he said at the hearing. “I was especially interested in the work of Lulzsec, and around this time I started talking to Sabu. Only later did I learn that Sabu had already been arrested.”
Those tears of liberals is what keeps the gears of justice turning. And it fuels the lulz. Ta ta you little dwarvish skiddie. Here’s to hoping you never get used to the taste of prison food.
