Cyrus Farivar reports:
Barrett Brown, a journalist formerly linked to the hacking group Anonymous, was sentenced Thursday to over five years in prison, or a total of 63 months. Ahmed Ghappour, Brown’s attorney, confirmed to Ars that Brown’s 28 months already served will count toward the sentence. That leaves 34 months, or nearly three years, left for him to serve.
In April 2014, Brown took a plea deal admitting guilt on three charges: “transmitting a threat in interstate commerce,” for interfering with the execution of a search warrant, and to being “accessory after the fact in the unauthorized access to a protected computer.”
Read more on Ars Technica. Xeni Jardin also covers the sentencing on BoingBoing and points out that Brown must also pay $890,000 in restitution.
If linking to publicly available documents can land you in prison, be afraid…..