The Design and Implementation of laffer1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4758743.stm I'm not sure how to feel about this one. The guy did break into US military computers. He should be punished for that, but I'm not sure we need to bring him here to do it. The sentence of 70 years he's looking at is rediculous. 700,000 dollars in fines is too. Its possible it was that expensive to fix, but they should have hardened their systems to begin with. Some guy in the UK shouldn't even get access to our frickin networks. firewalls people! (not to get into other factors) What i'm not sure about here is if he's a hacker or cracker. Hackers say he was only hacking and the government says he was cracking but call it hacking. (its different) Did he actually just view shit or did he fuck it up?