[pm90]

I don't buy your insinuation that he was just a brilliant mind who was immature enough to inconvenience others. I'm reading through https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-m... and Jha's actions sound like a real criminal. Yes criminal: he was using his technical prowess to bring down minecraft servers and steal customers, effectively running an online protection racket.

I know this sounds harsh but: I'm glad he has been charged with this law and I really really want this guy to be behind bars and think for a long time about what he did. Hopefully it will seriously discourage others from doing the same stuff he did.

On a slightly related note: I can't help but think how this dude could have had a highly successful career in computer security. But he chose to be a criminal. Why?

[ganoushoreilly]

I read op's commentary more along the lines of emotional immaturity being present, he wasn't really surprised at the nature of the crimes. A lot of these emotionally immature individuals often times are part of the "do things for lulz" mindset. The fact that this started as Minecraft DDOS attacks, re-iterates the immaturity of the individual based on initial targets. I'm not defending these criminals by any means, but I would agree with OP that people whom fit the mental profile of potential asshat hackers are way more common than we'd like to admit. If every crazed rick and morty fan had the technical prowess to pull this stuff off... just imagine the chaos.

[nick_g]

It wasn't my intention to detract from the fact that his actions were criminal