According to this Wikipedia article, he's done something similar before (compromising a system and releasing credit cards). That could be a big hit to his case.
I hope he gets a fair shake, that his lawyers are strong, his judges are fair, and the jury is open-minded. Unfortunately, it seems like we've already gone off the tracks.
Whilst I appreciate the sentiment behind this, classifying him as just an "SQL Injector" is being a little disingenuous; If you actually get credit card information and then deliberately distribute them, that's a little different than pushing through basic commands to see if you actually can inject.
Absolutely, and the "access to unauthorized computer" part of his prospective sentence will be relatively minor. Still, the fact remains that a non-violent criminal (and he is a criminal) is being more harshly punished than many murderers and child rapists. That, in and of itself, is an injustice.
"Legal proceedings in the case might soon be called into question, however, after it’s been revealed that Judge Preska’s husband was a victim of the Stratfor hack."
This reminds me of the Soviet claim in response to American criticism of human rights violations. "And you are lynching Negroes", the claim went, from the thirties on.
Point being, RT and similar Chinese outlets talk openly and fairly on issues USA hates to talk about as sovereign PR retaliation. Overall, the effect is positive: world powers muckrake each other and compete to see who can look least bad in the eyes of the World.
At which point the retort should have been, to follow that logic, and you starve millions to death! [1]
The thing is while an opposite viewpoint is desirable, their viewpoints tends not to be balanced but rather lean far 'the other way'. Let's say the 'truth' is 5, we claim 7, they claim it's -1. So, on balance, you're not getting the 5 by adding their viewpoint.
Yes, except, one government goes out of its way to retaliate lethally[1] against its journalists who counterargue the government line. So, given that, I think we're the 7s and they're the -1s.
In particular, he created HackThisSite[2] 9 years ago, which, among other things, has challenges like Stripe's capture the flag (web version).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond
[2] http://www.hackthissite.org/