I Was Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Hacking Back - My Story

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Jonathan Manzi: My journey through digital ethics, policy, love and fear, and intention, which started with a homeless lady in San Francisco.
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In 2018, a little more than a year before I was indicted, my entire worldview changed. I had a supernatural experience with a homeless lady in San Francisco. She predicted specific things in my life would happen, some of which have come to pass. The intent of quantum mechanics is linked to outcomes outside of our reality. I realized I shouldn’t have hacked back to do something bad.