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Tracking Mafiaboy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lock-him-up dept.

Cruciform writes "The National Post has an article on the police effort to track Mafiaboy two years ago as the DoS attacks raged against Yahoo, E-trade and others. An interesting read." Its a fairly lengthy story with lots of little bits in this tale of a script kiddie.

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  1. It's a miracle the RCMP was able to do it... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1, Troll
    (This came up some years ago on a law-enforcement newsgroup):

    The RCMP officers mentionned in the article once busted a scammer operating from Canada; when they seized the computers and server, they brought them to the supplier to "fix them". Thing is, they swapped hard-disks, and the server hard-disk ended-up in a workstation. Needless to say, the tech was really surprised to see a server come up on that workstation...

    So, it only shows that the RCMP are royal-class fumblers and it's a miracle that their evidence was able to stand-up in court... (Or the scammers' defense was totally inept - or the court stupid).