Ex-AOL Worker Pleads Guilty in Spam Case (AP)

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AP - A 24-year-old former American Online software engineer pleaded guilty Friday to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers, setting off an avalanche of up to seven billion unsolicited e-mails.

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[subnet_rx]

this is why you don't hire 24 year olds.

[usm_designer]

yeah.. 25 and up...

[aaron]

spammers, they have no comparison in society. they should be outlawed and an organization set up to stop them.

[iatro36]

this is why you don't hire 24 year olds.
Exactly. They're still too young to know the value of the dollar in relation to jail time. I would have laughed at $28K. Make it 75k, and it might be worth my time...