Because no hacker has even gotten anything beyond 10 years....99% are under 5 years.
How would Gary know if he caused damage or not?
What about the damage you are said to have caused?
McKinnon:
What they call damage is really just them realizing that they have been accessed without authorization. Then they say things like I deleted 300 users, deleted systems files and such. That was one instance when I did a batch file to clean up all my stuff--I think once and only once, though perhaps I ran it on the root drive of the "c:" drive. But it certainly wasn't every machine I was on and, if you believe them, they talk about 94 networks being damaged.
http://news.cnet.com/Gary-McKinnon-S...3-5786782.html
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McKinnon unearthed unprotected computer systems operated by the US army, the navy, the Pentagon and Nasa.
On every system he hacked, he left messages. 'It was frightening because they had little or no security,' he said. 'I was always leaving messages on the desktop saying, "your security is really crap".'
One message has come back to haunt him. 'I said US foreign policy was akin to government-sponsored terrorism and I believed 9/11 was an inside job. It was a political diatribe,' he admitted.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...lcrime.hacking
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