Web Site Identifies Hacker – Should It Prosecute?

Posted by Ron Schenone on Apr 29, 2010 | 5 Comments

Last January, TechCrunch had its Web site defaced and traffic redirected by a hacker, and now the company wants to know your opinion whether it should prosecute the person or not. What’s the problem? Prosecute the hacker. That is my opinion that is shared with about 70% of the people who have responded to the poll thus far.

Here are the results as of this morning at 9:00 am CDT:

Should We Press Charges Against The TechCrunch Hacker?

Total Votes: 16,566

Yes 78% (12,871 votes)

No 22% (3,695 votes)

I personally do not see what the problem is. The person defaced the site and caused problems for two days which most likely cost the company money to fix and a loss of revenue.

What do you think? You can vote (I voted yes!) by clicking on the source link below.

Comments welcome.

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No, it’s a waste of time and money. They’ll spend a hundred times what they lost to the hack in attorney fees and a drawn out court case and probably not recover their losses anyway. Hackers who have the time to deface blog sites probably don’t have profitable careers. If they push criminal charges, the dumb kid is going to end up spending half a decade in prison for irritating them for 2 days – a completely disproportionate response. If I was them, I’d bring suit and then offer to settle in exchange for a detailed description of how the hack was pulled off. Problem solved.
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