On: Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking”

[mordocai]

Police scaring the kid sounds fine, but a felony? Using a well-known password in a place with terrible security to do a mostly harmless prank results in a felony? That isn't justice.

[dragontamer → mordocai]

"He'll likely be granted pretrial intervention by a judge, sheriff's detective Anthony Bossone said."

They aren't planning to put the felony on his record. They're gonna drop it pre-trial.

[dragontamer]

Wasn't the EFF's entire press release about pointing out the fallacy of the phrase you just uttered?

"Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might have done..."

"Even though some might say this is just a Police disciplinary scare tactic... who knows what this Police Officer could have done..."