Keys won&#x27;t be sentenced to anything resembling 25 years. Even his prosecutors have said so.<p>He&#x27;s also far more responsible for his actions than Andrew Aurenheimer was. Keys, while working as a social media editor at Reuters, used his access from a previous job at a Tribune subsidiary to let anonymous Internet hackers break into the LA Times, one of the largest newspapers in the world; the attackers used it to modify stories. His &quot;hack&quot; was a straightforward abuse of the trust misplaced with him.<p>Keys defense fixates on the rapidity with which those stories were taken down. But of course, that&#x27;s not the whole story. The Tribune Corporation, like every major corporation, usually must follow a complex process after a breach. The cost far exceeds that of simply taking a story down.<p>Keys has, by all accounts, fantastic attorneys. The sentencing phase of this trial is just now starting, right? How can they possibly be letting a freshly convicted felon talk like this? Isn&#x27;t he harming his case here?<p><i>Edit: my comment originally claimed, incorrectly, that Keys had used Reuters access to compromise the Tribune Company; he did not; rather: he used his access from a previous job at a Tribune subsidiary to do it.</i>