Three types
Guardian has a celebratory interview with the criminal who founded and ran Pirate Bay. Guardian loves Peter Sunde because Peter Sunde is COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.
"In prison you become brain-dead" is the headline. We're supposed to feel sorry for the noble Robin Hood of the tech world.
Nope. I know something about prison, so I know something about Sunde.
As the wonderfully concise saying goes, prison holds the Mad, the Bad and the Sad. Psychopaths, vocational criminals, and circumstantial lawbreakers. Everyone who deals with criminals knows the difference. The lines are sharp.
I was a circumstantial law-breaker. Thought I was cool hippieshit and found out different.
I did not become brain-dead. My brain came to life upon encountering so many people and situations that I'd never had to deal with before. Crash course in reality, coming at me HARD from the front and the rear.
The vocational criminals do not become brain-dead either. Prison provides them with lots of lab work, lots of opportunities to learn and teach criminal techniques in a controlled environment.
Only psychopaths don't see the need to think in prison. A psychopath is God. God does not need to change His Thoughts. The rest of the world needs to change its behavior to conform with God's Supreme Will.
Where does Sunde fit in this three-way classification?
“Everything was encrypted,” Sunde tells us, clearly pleased with himself. “The policeman was so pissed. I guess he’d been looking forward to arresting this mastermind hacker and then he misses a thing like that.”
Nuff said.