I must comment on what you said about "demonstrat[ing] ethical capacity and willingness" to commit a crime. Maybe this is a bit nit-picky and semantical, but I still find it important in a debate on this topic: what you are saying here is that because you are caught, you have demonstrated willingness and ethical capacity. What about those that still possess said ethical capacity and willingness, but never are caught? Are they not then more dishonest if they approach a potential employer in the pretense that they are "squeaky clean?"

A sentence for a crime such as system intrusion is no worse than eco[nomical] crime where people scam their own companies and the state for billions of dollars and then flee to some backwater country where they sit untouchable, just counting their pennies. I have far greater respect for somebody that face the consequences of their actions and do hard time for it, and then try to turn their life around and make something good out of what they have learnt during a period of their life that they would assumably be far from proud of.

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