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WarTalking Arrest
PhotonSphere writes "Having helped organize HoustonWireless.org, this really caught my attention! A Houston computer security analyst has been charged with 'hacking' after demonstrating the insecurity of a court's wireless LAN! This happened Wednesday and is only now getting the attention of the wireless community. The Register has the full story."
- On March 18, Puffer demonstrated to a county official and a Chronicle reporter how easy it was to gain access to the court's system using only a laptop computer and a wireless LAN card.
He obviously did it, so why shouldn't he be prosecuted?I mean, come on. If some random outsider came up to me and started bragging about how he'd hacked my company's system I'd get the police and our legal department onto him straight away!
I hate it when somebody on slashdot posts a perfectly fine response and it gets labeled as "Flamebait" just because it doesn't take a pro-hacker, pro-linux or anti-Microsoft stance. That just shows the immaturity we have here.
$5,000 to cleanup the intrusion??
Someone ping me so I can sue you for $1,000,000 in damages.
You must be new to the scene. It takes alot more than that to clean up pings!
I just got a 50 million grant to research how to find those pings after the fact. Ya see, pings hide themselves deep within a system and then make Windows unstable.
Its national defense really, I could have gotten 65 million, but keyboards only cost so much nowadays...
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
Unauthorized access damages integrity.
And not another peep out of you guys. Just because a network is open doesn't mean you should snoop around. I mean the only practical reason to secure a network is to stop idiots like the subject in the first place. It benefits the network in no way if the attacker just got a life and went elsewhere.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.