AOL engineers -15 months jail for reselling emails - Printable Version

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AOL engineers -15 months jail for reselling emails - ntype - 08-19-2005

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A few snippets...

Quote:A former America Online software engineer was sentenced yesterday to a year and three months in prison for stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers who sent out up to 7 billion unsolicited e-mail messages.
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The judge has recommended $84,000 restitution, triple what Smathers earned. The imposition of restitution was delayed to give AOL a chance to prove that the damages were much greater, after the judge suggested the $300,000 damage figure was subjective.
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In December, the judge said he had dropped his own AOL membership because he received too much spam.

:lool:

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