Finnish Decision is Win for Internet Trolls
Summary: A Finnish court gave 17-year-old Julius Kivimäki, known as "Ryan" and "Zeekill," a two-year suspended sentence and ordered him to forfeit EUR 6,558 after he was found guilty of more than 50,000 cybercrimes, including compromising over 50,000 servers through Adobe ColdFusion vulnerabilities, payment fraud, running a botnet, and calling in bomb threats. Sources close to the Lizard Squad investigation also tied him to an August 2014 bomb threat against former Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley that grounded an American Airlines plane, which Kivimäki denied.
What's compelling: Kivimäki changed his Twitter profile to "Untouchable hacker god" after the ruling, and the Lizard Squad account declared "we have free passes" - a message that lands with every under-18 actor now weighing whether cybercrime carries consequences.
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