JOURNALIST AND ACCUSED #ANONYMOUS COLLABORATOR MATTHEW KEYS FOUND GUILTY ...could face decades in prison

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Matthew Keys’ fate is out of his hands. Possibly for the next several decades.

Keys, a self-made meteor who’d rocketed to significant heights in the social media news desk firmament, was arrested in March of 2013 in connection with a December 2010 hack of the LA Times website, a hack he’d actually reported for Reuters. If indeed he was the mastermind and instigator behind the hack, as prosecutors allege, he left that part out. His editors would no doubt have a stern word with him, if they hadn’t fired him subsequent to his arrest.

And what was this dastardly hack?

One article on the LA Times site was temporarily altered, changing the author, headline, and a few words to turn a dry political story into a paen to the internet godhood of one “CHIPPY 1337”. Staff noticed, and fixed it within 40 minutes.

In March of 2013 Keys was charged with Conspiracy to cause damage to a protected computer, Transmission of malicious code, and Attempted transmission of malicious code. Each charge is a felony, and punishable by up to ten years (Conspiracy is only five!) in prison as well as a $250,000 fine and a three year probationary period after release. Restitution is a possibility as well, and the Tribune company (parent of the LA Times) sternly insists that it cost them more than $5,000 to fix the edit job.


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