A hacker goes to jail
By Deborah Jones The case of Jeremy Hammond, who victimized a private American security firm, is yet another the stranger-than-fiction tales of global surveillance, activism and espionage being churned out lately in the United States. Hammond, a self-described American anarchist, was sentenced in a U.S. court today to 10+ years in jail for hacking into the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., for which he had pleaded guilty. Hammond wiped information from company computers and stole millions of email messages along with some 60,000 customer credit card numbers. As Wired reports, “The emails went to WikiLeaks, while the credit cards were used