Over 10 offers To Pay Student Hacker’s Fine

Friday, 2nd November 2007

Posted by Lester Chan at 03:25 in Blog, Current Affairs

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SERIOUSLY, WTF IS WRONG WITH SINGAPORE, helping to pay fine for someone that has committed a crime and he is not even a Singaporean nor a PR. I seriously don’t give a flying fuck if he is from RJC or scored 2394863280948034 As for his exams, he committed a crime and he should be responsible for his action.

CHINESE undergraduate Zhao Ke, fined $15,000 for hacking into his former school’s computer network, has received “over ten” offers to help pay his fine.

At least two law firms here, including Allen & Gledhill, have also offered to help him appeal the sentence.

The 21-year-old who is doing a double degree in engineering and economics on a National University of Singapore scholarship, met up with lawyers from Allen & Gledhill on Wednesday.

While he has yet to make a final decision, with the fine settled “there was no big need to appeal and I need to catch up on my studies,” he said.

Zhao hacked into Raffles Junior College computers in March to find out his classmates’ A-level scores. He was caught while copying data from a teacher’s computer.

Zhao, who came to Singapore in 2002 to do his O-levels and stayed on since, had just received his results two weeks prior to the incident. He scored four As, two distinctions and a merit for his “S” papers, extra-hard papers reserved for top students.

His request for probation was denied, and Zhao was fined $15,000, payable in $1,000 monthly instalments.

He had initially indicated, through his lawyer, that he would be able to pay the fine from his tuition earnings.

But he later told The Sunday Times that he was unable to pay the full sum and would have to go to jail for five weeks to offset the fine by $5,000.

Following that, several people contacted The Straits Times to offer to pay Zhao’s fines.

So far, there have been “over ten” offers to either pay the entire fine, or part of the fine, Zhao told The Straits Times.

He is currently in discussion with one donor to tutor his children in return for paying off the fine.

Another, a doctor in his 40s who declined to be named, said he wanted to help because what Zhao did was “not a crime”.

“Yes, he made a mistake, but he should not have to go to jail for it,” he said.

Even as offers to help streamed in, online users are taking a harder line.

Many Netizens on sites like HardwareZone, for instance, said that Zhao’s NUS scholarship should be terminated and the money be given to Singaporeans instead.

The NUS has convened a Board of Discipline to look into Zhao’s case.

When news that an anonymous donor had offered to pay Zhao’s fine broke on Wednesday, Netizens also slammed those offering to help him, saying that they should look closer to home if they wanted to help.

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Han

A quick analog: you invite people to your $200,000-value house. You visit other ppl’s houses. No problem so far, everyone’s friendly.

But affixing the stranger’s name onto the property deed gifts $100,000 to him, and that is immigration: a gift of national wealth.

Theoretically, it should occur rarely.
http://www.lesterchan.net/ GaMerZ

Han: Looks like you study about Singapore =) Our population is about 4mil now and they going to make it to 6.5mil by importing FT and as what you said, I think it will be the end of SG.
Han

It’s the same group of ppl who push these nation-wrecking policies in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Taiwan, HK, China, and now Singapore: Jews. That appears ridiculous but is true.

A nice fragmented population is exactly what they want of other countries. History of how they wrecked WASP America here:
http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/ABERNET3.PDF

I know these things quite well, as my parents immigrated to the U.S. decades ago. I witnessed firsthand as Anglo-Saxon America turned to ethnic mush. Now Jews control the federal government completely, having wiped out the competition.

Not that I care very much, because in that case it’s not my fight.
Han

Btw, they use that “talent import” pretext everywhere. Even in the talent-rich U.S. which actually does not need a single immigrant, strictly speaking. (Though the country could beneficially skim, say, 10,000 einsteins a year from the rest of the world.)

Even in China, which receives low-quality foreigners and not the high, since few in their right mind would come here. If I did not have location-specific things to do in Beijing, I’d get out immediately. (The Bush Regime has convinced China to “import talent” too, lol.)

The way to get talent is to pay the smartest nationals to breed. It takes 21 years for the investment to fruition, but it’s really the only way. Unless one wants economic mercenaries with no loyalties whatsoever. That’s the Darwinian view, anyway
WWW

This must be one of the most Xenophobic blogsites I’ve visited – I really hope your views don’t reflect the majority of Singaporeans, or it would be a very sad day for all of us, foreigners and locals alike.
http://www.lesterchan.net/ GaMerZ

WWW: My views are with the netizens, check the HWZ Forum thread and you will see what I mean – http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1769058.
Han

XXX: Foreigners naturally appreciate it when Singaporese gift abroad its national wealth. For nothing. Most of the 2.5m will add nothing, but take on net.

No one ought to express surprise organized lobbies exist to open borders… it’s a perfectly rational policy goal for foreigners to pursue.

Domestically, muggers steal wallets, and internationally national wealth: its land, nature’s services, etc.

Moreover, what better way to destroy a country by tricking it into mass immigration? None, short of actual invasion and genocide. And tricking a government into destroying itself costs nothing, as compared to war.
Han

Btw, this subject isn’t “a view”. It’s known economic theory, all. Immigration gifts a country’s wealth away. Period.

The occassional genius justifies this gift with his excess economic productivity.

There’s more, but conclusion is, being anti-immigration is necessary to protect country, property, and existence. You don’t protect your country, ppl will steal it.
Han

Btw, I didn’t intend to be abrasive in the comment above — by “not a view”, I mean it in the sense 2 + 2 = 4 isn’t just a view. (This thread’s oddly intriguing to me for some reason and I enjoy coming back while laboring on my half-feeble quarter-constructed site…)