White House Seeking Harsher Sentences for Hackers

The White House has been seeking tougher sentences for hackers who are caught breaching or attacking computer networks of the government or private homes or organizations. Though this announcement does come on the heels of a break-in by hackers into the Senate and CIA public websites, this effort had been underway well ahead of those events. In May, 2011, the Obama administration urged Congress to take greater measures to encourage cybersecurity, such as a doubling of the length of the maximum sentence for actions that risk endangering national security. This…

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