Comment by zelon88

What's scary to me is that the crime doesn't fit the punishment. We're going to take a genius away from civilization where he could use his potential in constructive ways, and lock him up for something that, realistically, isn't as bad as when bankers launder many millions of dollars, or when identity thieves steal. So we will probably give this guy a life sentence for being smarter than 90% of the American workforce and almost uncovering secrets that shouldn't be being kept anyway. Why can't we throw the book at corrupt politicians and businessmen this hard?