I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

There is no patch for stupidity.

The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.