Question: How will custom feeds work? You mentioned smart lists. A big thing that bothers me about Twitter is I have to unfollow people to remove their content from my main feed.
Thanks. When you follow someone on Kaia, you are immediately prompted to choose a list to add them to (or easily create a new one on the spot). Then in your settings, you can choose which lists show up in your main feed.
The lists are smart in the sense that as more and more people add a person to a certain list like "startups", then it will just suggest this list for you immediately when you follow them.
The government gives harsher sentences to hackers than many rapists. This is because it is actually afraid of hackers. Hackers hold power that petty criminals do not. The sentences for hackers are completely ridiculous because they are created by fear.
The case you're thinking of where a hacker got a harsher sentence than a rapist is... what? Did one of those cases perhaps involve juveniles, and the other adults? The base offense level for rape in the federal sentencing guidelines is far higher than that for computer fraud.
> The government gives harsher sentences to hackers than many rapists. This is because it is actually afraid of hackers.
There's a simpler explanation for this. Hackers are getting harsher sentences because the crime is a more recent concept. The law prides itself on its trial-and-error approach to life.
Gary McKinnon was looking at 70yrs. The guy who made credit card fraud sites and was busted in the carder.su op got 7yrs after pleading but was looking at life. Rape and hacking are impossible to compare though because usually a rape happens once, whereas charges are stacked a mile high for computer fraud because nobody steals one login or card they steal a db full of them which means multiple charges, so technically rape on the federal books is a larger sentence compared to 1 charge of fraud or trespassing.
Gary McKinnon was not "looking at 70 years". If you are charged with 7 counts of the same offense, each carrying a possible 10 year sentence on the outside, you are absent other circumstances "looking at" 10 years. Like offenses often "group" under sentencing guidelines.† Under grouping rules, the damages for each charge might be summed to produce a single sentence.
But the 10 year claim is also suspect. These are federal CFAA charges. They have a base level for first-time offenders of 6 (0-6 months). The damage claims for each charge in the indictment were "more than $5,000", the lowest damage accelerator, which adds 2 points. (If all the charges were grouped for sentencing and the damages summed, they'd instead add 6 points) The fact that his targets were military adds another two; he's now somewhere between 10-14.
For a first-time offender, that's a possible probation-eligible sentence of 6-12 months, and no longer than 15-21 months, if his lawyers were able to do nothing else to secure leniency.
What does what they were "looking at" matter one bit? I don't understand why the 70 years he was "looking at" matters at all, if he wasn't sentenced to 70 years.
Because nobody goes to trial for computer fraud, not if the prosecutor is seeking 70 years so you are forced to bargain for 12-20yrs and yes there is a real possibility you will get all that time if you don't plea
Since there has never been a trial in US history where a prosecutor sought anything like 70 years for computer fraud, nor has there (I believe) been a CFAA case that plead out to 20 years, I don't think these are real possibilities.
Question: How will custom feeds work? You mentioned smart lists. A big thing that bothers me about Twitter is I have to unfollow people to remove their content from my main feed.