Booze is legal, and parole can limit your drinking. By law.

If you don't like the terms of parole, you are permitted to refuse it and remain incarcerated for your full sentence, at which point you are released and there are no parole restrictions at all. Parole is "you agree to behave and they release you early". And "behaving" is whatever they want it to mean.

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tptacek 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I mean, he was also forbidden from opening up lines of credit (he was in the middle of negotiations with DOJ on making restitution to his victims), something that is perfectly legal and benign --- nonetheless, he was not allowed to do so as a condition of parole.

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NoMoreNicksLeft 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Opening lines of credit is an attempt to avoid paying restitution. You pay it off with the credit, declare bankruptcy, then stick someone else with the bill. Courts traditionally despise any attempt to cheat the punishments they hand down.

	▲	tptacek 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. I'm just saying, the terms of someone's parole are not conceptually limited to behavior that is illegal; really, "not committing further crimes" is already implied.

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steveklabnik 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure, I'm just saying that you don't need to reach for "Why does "sobriety" matter in a computer crime?" to get at why this might be a term of parole.