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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. Openbsd is crap! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is crap, its so crap infact, that the OpenBsd website runs on Solaris!

    Netcraft tells it all!

    BSD IS DYING! Linux rules!

  2. they shoulda sent him to afghanistan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    where he could play with junius and the commode
    the f**ing little sh**t

  3. Re:Gaol(UK) == Jail(US) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think this is fair, he's getting an education, and punishment at the same time.

    Fair?! Fair would be growing his elbows together behind his back!

  4. 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).

  5. Re:cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are a gay ass homersexual.
    Please kindly quit breathing and leave the human race.

    Thank you and good night.

  6. Re:The FBI exists only for the FBI's sake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe folk such as yourself are so damned scared of the concept of standing up for oneself, that you'll gutlessly close your eyes, let outfits like the FBI rampage unchecked all over everybody's rights to liberty, and just hope for the best?

    I bet you also think buying lottery tickets is a good investment, and that going to church twice a year will save you from an IRS audit.