What was the punishment if you were caught hacking

It depends on a number of factors and those are defined in the Federal Sentencing Guideines. Read this article I wrote several years ago. "Everything a Hacker Needs to Know About Getting Busted by The Feds. http://web.textfiles.com/hacking/agentsteal-fbi.txt Hackers can now be prosecuted as terrorist, and that's a stiff sentence. Justin Petersen