SEO charged to 3 years in jail for extortion.

This is where cost/benefit analysis comes into play. I guess you'll know in around 3 years.

Cheers. - Frank

From what I can tell, he has to pay back $174,000 in restitution.

But he received $80,000 in payments from one company, and (4) payments of $29,800 from another. If my maths are right, that's more than $174,000.

I'm trying to figure out how the feds are letting him profit -- unless all he had left was $174,000 in assets.

Asshats like this are why capital punishment sounds so satisfying.

I know it's a .gov domain (OP link) but the story reads like a supermarket tabloid.

If that's GE as in General Electric I have a hard time believing any of the story. Seriously, a multi-billion dollar business bows down to an offshore hack based on verbal threats? Where's the court transcript?

I've read more convincing stories on The Onion.

Then you read wrong.

My post was triggered by the extortion aspect, not the black hat SEO part. The act of specifically and intentionally extorting money with a threat to someone's livelihood... that is what rises to the level.

Further, I didn't actually say we should do it... What I said is that asshats like this are what makes it sound like a good idea.

Those qualifying words are everything when reading English.

What was unsaid, and implied by "sounds like" is that it's actually not a good idea. Even though it "sounds like" it is. See how that works? lol

Not because we shouldn't execute thieves.... we should, if only we could (and get it right). But we can't (get it right), therefore we shouldn't.

Unfortunately the only thing more eft than the thieves on the street are the liars in suits (and uniforms) that prosecute and defend them. Far too many "oops" cases pop up after 5, 10, even 30 years.

I think the only legitimate way to make capital punishment practical would be: If the executed felon later turns out to be innocent, then the prosecutor and jury who convicted him are all automatically executed without appeal. The officers only if it became clear that they perjured themselves for the conviction. Sure would raise the bar for what people like to think they "know".

That escalated quickly. Leave for a few hours, and this happens.

Ya'll can't have nothin' nice. ;P

Topics covered today?

1. Extortion
2. Capital Punishment
3. Onions
4. Heavy Panting
5. Latex Dolls
6. Asshats
7. Apologies
8. Claude blowing his cover.

Just another day at the office.

lol I knew a girl in high school we called Hoover. Something about chrome and trailer hitches, golf balls and garden hoses. We'll leave it at that. ;D

So Claude wears a suit, does black cat SEO, and makes Wooster sauce?