A Student (Glenn Mangham) Jailed for hacking Facebook
Feb 20, 2012, by admin
A software development student in the U.K. who hacked into Facebook via an employee’s account is jailed after being found guilty of stealing intellectual property.
It’s in general parents who tell you they’re doing something disagreeable for your own good.
However, this was also the clarification presented by 26-year-old Glenn Mangham, who was yesterday given eight months of imprisonment for hacking into Facebook’s inner sanctum.
The Guardian records Mangham’s words to the court: “It was to recognize vulnerabilities in the system so I could pile up a report that I could then bundle over to Facebook and show them what was wrong with their system.”
I know there are at least 14 unselfish people in the world. This court, although, seems to have make a decision that Mangham, a software development student, wasn’t one of them.
Indeed, the proceedings dwelled a little on what might have been his inspiration for using a Facebook employee’s account to burrow into the company’s secrets.
Mangham’s lawyer suggested that his client was actually a sort of Harrison Ford or Nicolas Cage: “He saw this as a challenge. This is someone who in previous times would have thrown everything aside to seek the source of the Nile.”
Oddly, even the judge made a decision that Mangham had not done this for financial gain, nor even to pass the information he had collected to dangerous entities like the KGB or Google.
And yet he was tossed into jail for eight months–principally, it seems, because he entered the systems of an important company.
The judge actually stated: “You accessed the very heart of the system of an international business of massive size, so this was not just cheating about in the business records of some little business of no great significance.”
Some might end, therefore, that British justice is rather more tending to defend the 1 percent and their businesses, rather than the 99 percent.
Such a termination might cause certain upper lips to stiffen with anger, given this obvious unresponsiveness to justice for all.
Still, Mangham clearly knows a thing or two about Facebook. possibly, once his time inside is done, he might receive a lunch request or two–just to, you know, see if he can present a small background.
maybe, at least, he might visit a bier keller with Austrian law student Max Schrems, who is enjoying a very noble and interesting battle to help people get information from Facebook–their own.
