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So should we fill up prisons with rapists, child molesters, and murderers, or misguided computer geek-wanna-bes?
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The penalty should fit the damage inflicted on society. What's the total damage of a rape? a murder? a few grams of crack sold on a streetcorner? How does that cost compare to tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of damage caused by a worm?
Edit: Also, one of the main purposes of jail is as a deterrent. Confined living with scary low-lifes and enduring the occasional rectal renovation is a far more effective deterrent for snot-nosed teenage hackers (or upper middle class businessmen contemplating fraud) than it is for rapists, murderers and drug dealers.