Lab Notes

The hacker who broke into T-Mobile's website and downloaded Paris Hilton's address book received a sentence of 11 months in juvenile detention. Good. Given the difficultly in tracking down and prosecuting hackers (and by "hackers" I mean the black hat theft and extortion types), harsh sentences will hopefully act as a deterrent. While the fact that it was Paris Hilton who was the star victim in this case makes it a little amusing, the prosecutors claim that the total amount of damage for all the crimes the juvenile is charged with is around $1 million.