Russian Teen Gets Fined For SMSpam

from the pretty-small-fine dept

A teenager in Russia who hacked into a Russian wireless carrier and set up a program to send out 15,000 SMSpam messages has now been convicted by a Russian court. They never indicate what the spam messages were about. Considering he both hacked into the company and then sent spam, you might think he would have gotten into a fair amount of trouble. Instead, he received a suspended sentence and a $100 fine. Apparently, Russia takes the opposite view of the US courts who probably would have locked the kid up for longer than your average murderer for all the "damage" he caused the carrier.
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    dorpus, 24 Jun 2004 @ 9:34am

    Different method

    The kid was already punished when the Russian cops who arrested him beat him severely.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

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    Michael Bravo, 25 Jun 2004 @ 10:16am

    nothing special

    AFAIK, he just sent some crude obscenities, so it wasn't even per se, just hooliganism. Didn't get to advertise anything :)

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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