A man who called himself “Dr. Chaos” online was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for hacking into computers and causing power failures in northeastern Wisconsin.
Joseph D. Konopka, 29, already is serving a 13-year federal prison sentence for pleading guilty in 2002 to chemical weapons possession for storing cyanide near a Chicago subway.
Prosecutors said Konopka, formerly of Hobart, and an “anarchist group of boys” called Realm of Chaos were responsible for 28 power outages affecting 30,000 customers and 20 other service interruptions in 1999. Damage was estimated at $800,000.
Not exactly a script kiddie.
The courts and general public opinion is far too lenient on this scum. Considering that there may have been people on life support, or other critical infrastructure such as police and fire impacted – anything where this SOB keeps his life is generous. He had no concern for the welfare of anyone involved, why does he deserve better.
Indeed, if the actual impact of malware attacks were calculated to fix sentences there might be a lot fewer of Dr. Chaos’s fellow travelers walking around. For example, If 200,000 people have to each spend 5 hours to recover from a virus, worm or spyware infection, then the sentence should be 1 million hours locked away from the public with no access to a keyboard.
Net: the Internet, or at least parts of it, are national defense installations. Sabotage of a national defense installation during wartime has a set of sentences associated with it that virtually assure no repeat offenders. And if they want to put the electricity on my bill, that’s fine.
It might be OK with you, Mike, but I don’t want our wonderful government putting ANYTHING on MY bill. I’m already supporting every greedy, useless politician from the president on down the line of scum… I’m not volunteering to pay for more of their crimes, OR their electric bills. It’s good that you speak for yourself… coz you sure ain’t speakin’ for the rest of us.