NEW YORK – risked life imprisonment, but he got away with ten years behind bars. Not a few. It is the sentence decided by the Federal Court in Manhattan for Jeremy Hammond, twenty-eight activist linked to Anonymous, who was arrested in March for helping WikiLeaks to publish five million emails from the server of Stratfor Global Security, an agency of the U.S. intelligence private. Into The Stratfor is a company counterintelligence founded in 1996 by George Friedman. Its customers are important and widespread all over the world: banks, multinational companies, even major newspapers. On 24 December 2011, their site is hacked. A mockery of the company that has always been at the forefront in the fight against hackers. Anonymous end up in the hands of sixty numbers of credit cards, used by the collective to make donations to nonprofit organizations, and five million private messages that are sent to and published by WikiLeaks Julian Assange in February 2012. Into A correspondence ocean, of considerable importance, which highlights the links between heads of government, business intelligence and military contractors, and discloses different strategies international policies. The relationship between Berlusconi and Putin, a bill of indictment prepared by the U.S. against WikiLeaks and “Trapwire”, an unknown citizen surveillance system are just some of the secrets revealed by the huge “leak.” According to the FBI, one of the activists responsible for the attack, and thus the escape of news is its Jeremy Hammond. “Contrary to the image he paints of himself – says the governmental judgment which condemned the young of Chicago – Hammond is a cyber criminal recidivist who has been responsible for a massive hacking which has damaged many business, individuals and governments , causing damage to a value between one and two million and a half dollars, and putting at risk the health of many people, in particular judicial officers and their families. “
From Hence the decision of the Federal Court in Manhattan, which is part of Loretta Preska, wife of a customer of American damaged by Anonymous, to punish him with ten years in prison compared to the 20 months requested by the defense. A tough sentence which belongs to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the American law of 1986, which is the hacking as the worst of federal crimes.
A standard jumped to public attention last year after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, whose judges paventarono fifty years in prison for having published academic articles free of charge stolen from a database and later brought to the headlines thanks to the story of Deric Lostutter: the hacker who for ‘laundry’ a site and denounced the rapists faces a sentence of more guilty of abuse. Ten years against the two planned for the herd, composed mostly by minors. ‘An act ruthless and vindictive, “Hammond said in an interview with British newspaper The Guardian on Tuesday. Richard Stallman on his side that he called a “hacker socially responsible”, as well as dozens of activists and journalists around the world who have sent letters to support it. While, at this very hour, in response to the judgment WikiLeaks is releasing the remaining files stolen from Stratfor. Hammond is young, but has a long history of political activism: organized a protest against the British historian David Irving, who denies the Holocaust, and in 2006 he hacked the site of an organization to the right in favor of the war in Iraq, earning him two years in prison. In 2008 the approach to the group Anonymous, took part in various operation directed by the hacker Hector Xavier Monsegur, known under the pseudonym of Sabu, then proved an FBI informant. It is always defined an anarchist. Has a tattoo on his left shoulder with the anarchy symbol and the words: “Liberty, equality, and anarchy.” “I will use the time in prison to read, write and play sports,” he made it known activist. “I will try to train myself to become more disciplined so I can be more proactive when I am released. But my time hacking is over. Now it’s up to someone else.” 
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