[gowld]

Title was intentionally misleading before mods updated it.

This is a very one-sided article meant to make Hutchins look good.

The valuable bit of the article is a a reminder of why it's important not to start being criminal/evil, because it traps you in a postive-feedvack loop of criminality as you feel a need to commit ever-greater criminal acts to cover up past acts.

The only escape from this is to create a culture where criminals know that it safer to turn themselves in and turn informant on their co-conspirators, than to try to evade the authorities.

[gizmo]

I carefully read the entire article and I don't think it made Hutchins look good. But it does describe, accurately in my view, the kind of rationalizations people apply to cross line after line until they see no way out.

[sqldba]

A statute of limitations on hacking laws would also help. There's no reason people should be fearful decades later for stuff they did as (relative if not literal) kids.