{"id":300,"date":"2005-03-08T00:16:37","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T05:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=300"},"modified":"2005-03-06T23:17:29","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T04:17:29","slug":"sir-you-are-banned-from-teh-intarweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sir you are banned from teh INTARWEB&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Florida, a sentence has been handed down to a spammer who hacked into legitimate Bellsouth internet accounts to send out his junk.  After pleading guilty, <a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.bizjournals.com\/orlando\/stories\/2005\/02\/28\/daily40.html\">the man isn&#8217;t allowed to own, lease or use a computer for six years<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Frye was sentenced to one year in prison and an additional three years suspended sentence, with probation for a total of six years. The judge banned him from owning, leasing or using a computer or accessing the Internet for the entire six-year probationary period. The court also ordered Frye to pay restitution to BellSouth upon his release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will this serve as an example to other spammers?  Probably not, as it&#8217;s usually very hard to track down who is sending what.  But it is nice to see a proliific spammer get his comeuppance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spammer is banned from using, owning or leasing a computer for six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}