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Hardball hacker thrown in the cooler for 46 months for guessing rival team's password

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So he accessed more than one account with his skeleton password. And quite possibly he did make a few quid out of any knowledge gained. Still seems harsh...who was actually harmed? Universal-Password-Bob (or whoever was hacked) suffers some deserved embarrassment but learns a valuable lesson in compensation...to whit: "Do not use the same fucking password everywhere, you muppet". You could almost get one of those inspirational films out of it.

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