>>Grounding? ;-) Maybe it's incorrect but I have the image of viruses being created by young hackers trying to prove how clever they are.
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>>I don't care if they're created by clever high school students or people in their 50's....if they want to affect the big-time, they should be given big-time punishments. I believe losing one finger for every incident will teach them a lesson. :)
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>A student from Bergen who made a virus and spread it on the internet a few years ago, risked 21 years in prison. The police claimed that he "Put the nation's safety at risk" which meant that they could use laws which are normally only used during a war. Also the police wanted to scare other people from spreading virus. As far as I remember the student ended up paying a lot of money instead.

Siphoned out of millions of accounts a fraction of a penny at a time....