Jeremy Hammond, the 28-year-old hacker who rose to prominence for the 2011 Stratfor hack, was sentenced to 10 years in prison today. I was in the courtroom.
In a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, Judge Loretta Preska, who was previously asked to recuse herself due to a possible conflict of interest, sentenced Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison--the maximum sentence for the violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) Hammond pled guilty to.