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Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-pretty-funny dept.

juliao writes "SecurityFocus is reporting that alleged eBay hacker Jerome Heckenkamp was jailed after his first solo court appearance." It's pretty funny actually, stuff like challenging the indictment on the grounds that they typed his name in all capital letters, demanding to immediately testify (even tho they were only there to schedule the trial), threatening the judge and so on. He would know better if he watched a couple episodes of Law & Order. Note that I base all court proceedings on the wisdom of Sam Watterston.

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  1. QMail? Qualcomm? by fruey · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Perhaps he would not even be in this mess if he did not tell Qualcomm. ( The company who owns the secure mail deamon Qmail) After all they were the ones who went to the FBI after machines were getting owned with a 0-day exploit for qpop. In his post to BugTraq he did say "I found this overflow myself earlier this month. Seems someone else recently found it before Qualcomm was able to issue a patch." But lets not be naive, he is a smart kid.

    Isn't Qmail open source, and Qpopper what he is talking about really?

    Qmail, as I understood it, has NEVER been hacked.

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  2. Easy Way Out by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just to throw out a different spin on this, as everyone seems just to happy to jump on the bandwagon.

    There is a good chance that he is acting out because he has realised that he is screwed. He has probably talked to his lawyers and realised that no one is really going to be able to help him.

    People have posted "he'll get his day in court", but he probably already realises that on that day they will just go through the motions of convicting him.

    caged animals can act funny.

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  3. Idiot legal arguments: capitalized name by Brian+See · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Heckencamp sounds like he's read the standard tax evader propaganda. These are the people that argue in tax court that the Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) was never properly ratified, etc.

    A good link is http://www.adl.org/mwd/suss4.htm, which collects cases smacking down defendants who, like Heckencamp, have raised an objection to their name printed in all caps. That argument is discussed in the same breath as other winning arguments like objections to a fringe on the courtroom flag or the presence of an eagle on the flagpole.

    Of particular relevance may be a relatively recent case from the 10th Circuit. Pasting from the linked document:
    US v. M.L. Lindsay (10th Cir 7/1/99) _F3d_, 99 USTC para 50648, 84 AFTR2d 5102; (tax evader complained of "his name being in capital letters in a prior order issued by this Court and then ... makes an incorrect reference to this form of using all capital letters as being proper only in reference to corporate entities. This is an incorrect statement of the law and ... is illustrative of [his] continued harassing and frivolous behavior." and fined under Rule 11