He was found guilty of serious crimes, but they try to make this seem like it was just TOR. Read the other side before jumping to conclusions - the other things he did are bad enough to deserve prison time, and TOR doesn’t even seem to be the FBI’s motive.

From tptacek on ycombinator:

OK, I think I found the original thing Rockenhaus was convicted of. Back in 2014, Rockenhaus worked for a travel booking company. He was fired. He used stale VPN access to connect back to the company’s infrastructure, and then detached a SCSI LUN from the server cluster, crashing it. The company, not knowing he was involved, retained him to help diagnose and fix the problem. During the investigation, the company figured out he caused the crash, and terminated him again. He then somehow gained access to their disaster recovery facility and physically fucked up a bunch of servers. They were down a total of about 30 days and incurred $500k in losses. (He plead this case out, so these are I guess uncontested claims).

Got to love a society where people are incarcerated for the presumed crimes (of others, no less) - and for having the temerity to not act as an unpaid law enforcement intern, of course.

I for one salute Mr. Rockenhaus for his uncompromising integrity and hope for his swift release.