Why do we make laws over laws? Same applys to Hate crime laws? If you kill someone it is illigal, but if you kill some one because of there race it is really illigal! If you happen to do some kind of damage though hacking, the fact that you used a cpu to do it should not make a differnce. So why should there be a greater punishment reqired? Crime is crime. Motives and devices used to create these acts of crime should not determine the outcome of the penelty.