Remember David McOwen, the guy who got charged with numerous counts of hacking for installing distributed.net — a client for a distributed computing project to brute-force solutions to cryptosystems — on the university computers he was the sysadmin for while they were sitting idle over the Xmas break? He's gotten off with a slap on the wrist.
Under the terms of the deal, announced today, McOwen will
receive one year of probation for each criminal count, to
run concurrently, make restitution of $2100, and perform 80
hours of community service unrelated to computers or
technology. McOwen will have no felony or misdemeanor record
under Georgia's First Offender Act.
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