Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer Sentenced to Three and a Half Years | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer Sentenced to Three and a Half Years | Politics News | Rolling Stone: To the extent that cyber attacks are a legitimate concern, there certainly need to be strong distinctions in the law made between defacing a website or collecting emails on the one hand and a engaging in a "cyber 9/11" on the other. The fact that they both involve computers can't be a sufficient reason for someone like Matthew Keys to face a maximum of 25 years in prison. As it stands now, lawmakers are behind on the technology and prosecutors have major incentives to at least threaten defendants with massively disproportionate sentences. The added irony that AT&T, the target of Auernheimer's action, and other telecoms were granted retroactive immunity after spying on Americans without warrants – a crime far more significant than anything Weev, Swartz or Keys did – only heightens the sense of injustice.