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An Anonymous Coward writes: "Doing a good deed has caused one man a lot of trouble in the past year. Brian K. West, a tech support junky in a SE. Oklahoman ISP is now facing felony charges due to alerting his competition about a serious security flaw in their systems. The full story can be found at LinuxFreak.org ... I find this rather disturbing that our federal government would do such a thing to someone.." The details of the story lead to some head-scratching.
Even at college!
FP
You're alive, you're alive, you're alive, you're dead.
...as opposed to a slow one;
You're alive, you're alive, you're alive, you're dead.
"From of old, there are not lacking things that have attained Oneness." - Lao Tzu
3Cum is a dying company anyways. They'll be lucky to get any money out of them.
Give 'em a whiff of the grape! (or at least the "slashdot effect"!)
You're using her as bait, Master!
What happened to the -1 default?
I'm waaaay under -100 and I'm posting at default 0 again. C'mon people! Cut a brotha some slack!
I want my -1 back!
"People should be allowed to keep midgets as pets."
- Gov. Jesse Ventura
> > TIMMY!!!
asdf> > TIMMY!!
"No, Officer, I didn't want to steal that car, I was just going to notify the owner of the insecurity."
Wtf? Rob, there is a bug, my whole comment has disappeared. *sigh* Guess I will have to repost.
With all the news lately about high profile 'cybercrime', and the foundation of 9 new divisions to help combat it, the FBI is under a lot of pressure to provide a lot of results and visibility. In essence, they have to make a lot of arrests, valid or not, to warrent the increased budget they have been given. No arrests, no money. The agents on this case probably realize that he had good intent, but they needed to arrest him anyways, just to get their stats up. They also know that he most likely will get off, but well, thats not THEIR problem. They just arrested him, DA's are supposed to get convictions.
And if it costs this poor bastard thousands of dollars? Sorry bub, but they gotta keep their budget.
Is this right? You tell me.
I got it for you !!!
"> TIMMY!!!
FUCK YOU
The revived roman empire is coming SOOON YOU FAGS
first fuck!
Boring first-post troll. Is ./ getting sleepy?
I have not even read the story... but I have this to say:
First Post!
first post!
I love you all
and I hope you love me 2
FRESH INSTALL
He's right. This is both insightful and informative.
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fuck you, Taco!
Someone please tell the FBI to go fuck itself.
Version up the legality system, for great justice.
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hehehehehehh im a 31337 h4X0r!!
Let's say that in the future, company X uses website cookies which contain encrypted information. You're curious, so you capture your HTTP dialog with their website and, after a little fiddling, discover that the cookie is your Social Security Number, base64-encoded. Except that you never gave them your SSN. You call them up:
And the next day you're sued under the DMCA for cracking their "data protection scheme" (base64) and sharing information on how to crack it (with their customer service rep).
Yeah, right, that's sounds ridiculous. Could never happen. Not in the USA. We don't do things like that here. All our arrests make sense...
I'm a bloodsucking fiend! Look at my outfit!
?tsop tsrif
First Jesus!! bitches.
In fact you should have put something like -$999,999.99 in instead.
my balls!!!
ph33r!!!
really, you have to watch out for number 1. Yes, that sucks, but "no good dead goes unpunished" is all to true in this industry.
I was talking to a friend who still worked at a place where I had been previously employed(Both of us in IT), when he mentioned that they had moved their web services to a 'professional' hosting company. I had been playing around with SAINT, and during the conversation, (I forget who mentioned it) we decided to scan the machine hosting their site. The scan showed anon FTP with write access. I logged in (anonymous) and noticed that I had write access to the entire site, including all the scripts that dealt with the credit card numbers. After checking to see that the write access was real (I created a file in the root directory, containing my name and phone number, and an explanation of what I was doing) I told my friend to have that company called up and have the problem fixed immediatly. Later that day, I got a phone call from the 'professional' company that was hosting them, slightly upset at my actions, but just happy that I *was* benign. They could have done the same to me as has been done to Brian West, but instead they fixed their problem, and let me live.
Nathan Brazil?
IN THE FACE of CmdrTaco.... IN THE FACE
for all you know he was trying to make money off it. The fact that he didn't tell his own company get's me thinking
IN THE FACE!!
But he didn't notify the ISP who runs the site, he went up to the customer (the newspaper). I say, fuck him. If you see it defferently, go ahead and donate for his defense fund. I laugh at you.
Must be running linux
surprised the gov't screwed someone over? hmm
A picket line blocked access to Berth 68 at the Port of Oakland on Friday, making it impossible for an Italian ship to unload cargo. The same ship was prevented from docking in Portland on Wedsnesday, as a result of a 12-hour picket line. Protesters are acting in solidarity against the violent and inhumane tactics employed by Italian police during the recent protests at the G8 meeting in Genoa. The dockworkers are organized under the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and will not cross a picket line.
Just like Taco's mom.
where is everyone?
Could the legends be true?
Anyone know what happened to the site above??
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fuck you
#1!!
Only in America would a government turn against the people that it serves.
there's no h
http://astalavista.box.sk/
That proves trying to do a good deed is un-American. And the sad thing is, under current laws, the guy IS guilty of cyber-crime.
I'm an idiot. I'm now going to sue you for pointing it out.
First post!!!!!
Suck my cock, butterfingers!
WHAT??
Can you imagine the typical hacker wearing a black thrench coat and sun glasses, entering the internet cafe trying to run on the walls, then he lines up six monitors in front of him and sit down while looking around suspiciously.
to much spanish, to much coding and to little sleep.. :) .. there is no spoon!
goddamn right, tell it!
i'm thinking your brain is in need of ventilation... a hole of the approximate diameter of .357 ought to do the job! now, go crawl back under your rock before someone does the world a favor and terminates your miserable existence. thank you. (this has been an unpaid Public Service Announcement)
Nice link f**k. I lost a lot of data because of that cr*p. Don't be surprised if your account here is gone after this.
how is this sack of shit informative, but my concise response above it isn't?
think about it this way.. if customs weren't at the first point of entry, you could buy a ticket to cuntchomp, idaho and get off in New York, smuggling all the goods youd like.
Speak for yourself.
...). Yet, the 4 people were killed in the greatest homicide in Swiss criminal history.
In Switzerland, everyone does have a gun in their house. We also have violent games, too (Which suprises me somewhat, considering article 135 of Swiss criminal law ['Gewaltdarstellungen']
(NB - Switzerland is one of very few European countries where you don't need a licence to buy a gun. You need a certificate to prove you aren't a violent criminal.)
So if I were whacking off to kiddie porn near a state border and I COULD have spooged into the next state, but the wind shifted, I'm facing FEDERAL instead of STATE charges?
Oh, man...