Ex-contractor sentenced for sabotaging Navy subs

[UglyMowgli]

A former government contractor whose top-secret security clearance enabled him to sabotage Navy 6th Fleet computers was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison. Richard F. Sylvestre of Boylston, Mass., pleaded guilty to one count of damaging protected computers and could have faced as much as 10 years in prison.

http://content.hamptonroads.com/stor...352&ran=199274

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

The guy should have been shot, for treason. Period. Sabotaging of military computers is a national security issue. Siberia and gulags are too nice for him. There are no valid "favorable" factors for something like this.

[bradclark1]

The judge calls the crime severe then just gives a year. One doesn't match the other.

[SUBMAN1]

Are you kidding? THis guy should be given the full 10 years!

[Heibges]

Sabotage in time of War is definitely a serious offense. One year seems like a ridiculously short sentence.

[baggygreen]

say it with me now people...


s-o-f-t


that is ridiculous. After a year in prison, its unlikely he will have learnt anything, so to speak. And frankly, the minimum term for something like that oughta be 20 years, no parole.

What woulda happened if this clowns sabotage had led to deaths? you have good men and/or women dead, maybe a ship lost, and he'd be out in 10 years, less with good behaviour. fair?

[U-104]

[Camaero]

What has this world come to? Really...

[The Avon Lady]

Just read the article.

This seems to have been a terrible crime with potential disaterous damage to both personnel and security.

1 year and then this guy goes free?! The judge should be tried for sabotage!

[Skybird]

Come on, guys, don't be so harsh to him. He probably just was a bit misled, so a short offtime in a box will give him plenty enough time to meditate about it, think about his life, his fellow citizens, and how to change the grounds of his existence. A relaxed amosphere helps in that. If I would be the judge, I would have send the man to an island beach in the Carebean, where he would have found all calm and relaxation needed to change his mind and come out of his retreat as a better being and a valuable member of the community. I mean, grim penalties just produces grim men, eh? And just consider the damage you do to your own consiousness when demanding so easily harsh treatment of other human, having such thoughts on your minds just brutalizes your sould and and turn your hearts into stones. You really should start to see the good things in this story. The understanding in the judge's behavior. The ove expressed in his setence. Really, I think everything is good. Also, the man confessed. Is a confession not meant to reduce the level to which you can be held responsible for your deeds? So, forgive him, try to love him, and always hope for the best.



Serious, the recommended term, says the article, would have been 12-18 months, according to the rules they have. However, when it is about breaching a high security guideline, a stronger penalty should be given, to really send a message. the harmless consequnces of abusing trust while working in a high security area probably does more damage now than the computer manipulation itself.

Sometimes I think judges should work as pedagogues, not as judges. In Germany it is far, far worse, believe me. sometimes we have news about some US judge finding a original sentence in some case, and I wished that would be possible in German courts, too. Currently, offsprings of the rebellious 68-generation are judges and work at courts. And this is to be felt, unfortunately. Much of what they do has no deterring effect at all, for example in the field of youth crimes.

However, there were psychological reasons being given as excuse. We don't know how serious these are to be taken - or if they are just cheating.

[HunterICX]

the guy is extremly lucky,
60 years ago you would have been shot for this kind of sabotage.