Im with OP.
Some forms of hacking need to be taken much, much, MUCH more seriously. Legislation on tech criminals is like 10 steps behind, and its not okay.
Its practically like 1800's wild west frontier with outlaws running around killing, robbing, raping, hijacking, extorting people, families, businesses, with an overwhelmed sherrif and a clumsy deputy the only thing standing in their way.
What stopped that era? You guessed it--- automatic death penalty. That cowboy shyt would get you hung. That and the Govt. started paying top dollar to Marshalls to help hunt these ppl down and murk them.
Now obviously Death penalty is a bit hyperbole but you get the drift. These ppl are human garbage and need to spend MANDATORY football numbers in the pen. Screaming, crying and begging in the damn court room type numbers. Theres no way robbing a 7/11 with an empty gun should get you in more trouble than hacking hundreds to millions worth of personal info and leveraging it to fxck human lives up en masse because you can. If we gonna decriminalize drugs we can in turn criminalize the fxck out of hackers