Hacker who helped find Steubenville rapists threatened with decade in prison

[FarCenter]

While the rapists get minimum sentence and rehab

After crime blogger and one-time Steubenville resident Alexandria Goddard started writing about the case, a group of hackers operating under the Anonymous brand decided to get busy and soon found plenty of evidence, including a sickening 12-minute video of one team member joking about having witnessed the attack. The hackers gained control of the Big Red fan site and posted the information there.

The case and subsequent hacking caught the national news media's attention and the local police decided that they did have enough evidence to investigate after all. In March, two teenagers, Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, were convicted of sexual assault and distributing naked images of a minor and sentenced to a minimum of a year in juvenile detention, or a maximum of four years.

Barely a month later, a dozen armed FBI agents raided the home of one of those suspected of the hacking that uncovered evidence of the rape, Kentucky IT security consultant Deric Lostutter – also known as KYAnonymous. Lostutter, his brother, and his sibling's girlfriend were all arrested, computers in the house were confiscated, and the trio was warned not to discuss the case or face charges of "tampering with evidence."

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That hacker, who operates under the name Batcat, told the local Ohio Herald-Star newspaper in February that he had got into the account by the simplest of means, namely guessing that the answer to the password reset question of the person who owned the fan site would be "Big Red."

Batcat remains at large, but Lostutter now faces computer crime charges that could see him spending ten years in a federal prison, as well as suffering ongoing disruption to his day-to-day consultancy business and facing potentially huge legal fees. A donation site has already raised over $30,000 for his defense.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/10/steubenville_rape_hackerfaces_decade_in_prison/

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Fucking ridiculous. Pun intended.

[Half-Century Man]

2. The rapists get a slap on the wrist.

The girl gets scarred for the rest of her life.
The suspected hacker gets charged with something someone else confessed to and faces 10X the penalty of the actual criminals.

To the girl: sue the players,the school, the police and the court for everything they have. May I recommend the Southern Poverty Law Center.
To Losteutter: See above post.
To Batcat: run like hell.

To the people of Ohio: suspend the entire Steubenville school system from participating in sports for twenty years.

[rhett o rick]

3. And some scoff when fascism is mentioned. The Ruling Elite dont care about rape among the 99%'ers

but hackers scare the shit out of them.

[Harmony Blue]

4. Being a whistleblower is apparently a "high crime"

but rape seems acceptable by the elite.