Stupid things going around this world…
BBC reports, Aaron Caffrey, aged 19, has been cleared of trying to bring one of the US’s biggest ports to a standstill by hacking into its computer systems.
The reason ? A stupid jury. It happens more and more, hackers convincing the jury that it was actually their own computer that was hacked, and then later used to control other thousands of hacked machines. Not only was there no evidence supporting this theory, the kid in question actually admitted he was a hacker himself. A hacker wouldn’t be stupid enough to let someone else try those tricks on his own system, but with so many cases already thrown out, it’s a proven method to evade jail time.
I’d better practice a sad face, and maybe a tear here and there, as that’s more worth to a jury than the actual evidence, which are just zeros and ones they don’t understand.