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12-yr-old boy admits to hacking police and government sites for Anonymous

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SeraphimLabs:
The only thing that's sad there is that they have the unmitigated gall to prosecute anyone after getting spanked by a 12 year old.

Pulled from the comments there:Um, if a 12 year old can hack into their system then why is the 12 year old getting punished?

Either A) The kid needs to be offered a job or a full scholarship...

or B) The security/IT team for the police/government sites need to be fired. He's 12.
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Nailed IT!! :Thmbsup:
-Stoic Joker (October 27, 2013, 07:57 AM)
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Canada's laws must be different, because last I checked you legally can't even prosecute a 12 year old in the US. At least not in this manner, at worst the kid would get a slap on the wrist and some community service time.

On the other hand, the IT management for the sites that got hacked into should have a long talk with this boy to find out just how he did it and fix their services so that it never happens again.

40hz:
^In the US he might not have been "prosecuted" per se.

But juvenile laws vary widely by state. And in many cases, juvenile judges have broad discretionary leeway in dealing with so-called "delinquency" issues even in the absence of a criminal conviction. A kid could be removed from his home and sent to a youth detention facility in many places merely on the say-so of a judge.

And in some places, the US or state governments have laws in place to prosecute minors under adult laws for certain offenses.

I think he got far less of a slap living where he does than he might have gotten here for messing with a police agency.

IainB:
That little smartass should be incarcerated in solitary confinement for the rest of his natural...or wait, even better, make him a US president.

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