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Uncap Your Modem, Get Visit From the FBI
FlightSimGuy writes "The Blade wrote this article about how seven men were arrested by FBI agents with guns drawn and indicted by a local grand jury for allegedly "reconfiguring computer systems to access excessive amounts of bandwidth". Apparently the provider, Buckeye Cable Systems, wanted to make an example out of the men. According to the company's attourney, "Cyber crime is potentially very damaging to society. We are taking a firm position on that type of criminal activity. We hope these cases will have a deterrent value...""
Hands up!!! Hand over the bandwidth, punks. *snarl*
The theft of the service - called bandwidth - from Buckeye Express, an Internet provider operated by Buckeye CableSystem, ended June 26 when authorities served search warrants and seized computers and modems at residences in Toledo and surrounding suburbs.
Yeah I remember reading about this the first time, around june 27th.
-Kevin
Let this be a lesson to everybody. If you uncap your pipe to get speedier access to a naked woman, you end up paying for it in the long run.
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"Mr. Runner, 55, of 4561 Westbourne Ct., Sylvania, resigned as Waterville solicitor in March, 2001, after a covert police surveillance operation videotaped him stealing coffee, creamer, and paper from village supplies."
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From stealing coffee and creamer to stealing bandwidth. This is the downward spiral into crime that the RIAA has been warning us about
Also, from the department of Redundancy dept.:
" "There have been no indications that other high-speed Internet providers have taken such firm steps to prosecute for the theft of broadband theft," Mr. Shryock said. "
Maybe I should sneek flyers under windshield wipers at the local computer stores? Shit, Ameritech DSL should pay me for this.
If we let hooligans steal bandwidth, then the terroists have already won.
Yep, I'm glad to see my tax payer dollars help fight these horrible crimes against humanity. Manipulating your cable modem to steal extra bandwidth from your ISP is not only a crime against the ISP but every American!! How many packets of p0rn were delayed from reaching my system because of these terrorists? They must be punished to the fullest extent of the law. In fact, I think that the ISP's should be given unilateral judicial power to protect me and my constitutional rights from these evil-doers. I propose that we give ISP's a small island in the Pacific that they can use as a prison to save society from these attacks and as part of their punishment, give them AOL and a 28.8Kbps modem.
Lord, bless my users that they may stop being such fucking idiots!!
"Toledo lawyer George Runner was among those indicted by the grand jury...Mr. Runner, 55, of 4561 Westbourne Ct., Sylvania, resigned as Waterville solicitor in March, 2001, after a covert police surveillance operation videotaped him stealing coffee, creamer, and paper from village supplies."
This guy should be off the streets. He's an attorney, has stolen Coffee Mate, and now stolen bandwidth. That's a history of theft to me.
Three strikes! Yer out!
Mike Yunker, a Sylvania police detective, said he planned to file delinquency charges today in Lucas County Juvenile Court against 15 and 16-year-old boys for the altering of modems in their Sylvania homes."
Troll count should be lighter today...
So does this mean I can press charges against QWest since I pay for a 256kbps connection and I have never topped 100kbps cumulative of all my downloads and never 70 on a single download?
I do security
Can you imagine if you didn't mess with your modem and were falsely accused just because someone made a 'cut & paste' error?
Big deal! You do the crime, you do the time.
It's like those posts we always read whenever copyright infringement comes up: "You're stealing. Saying, 'Can I borrow that CD for a sec?', popping it into your CD drive, ripping a track, and giving it back to your friend is NO DIFFERENT from breaking into my house and stealing my computer. If one gets you in jail, so should the other."
Likewise: What these people did, stealing bandwidth, is NO DIFFERENT from what it would be if, instead of just modifying some hardware in the privacy of their own homes, they BROKE INTO Fort Knox, weilding NUCLEAR WEAPONS LACED WITH BIOCHEMICAL WARFARE and stole BULLION BANDWIDTHS!!!
It's no different, and I for one am GLAD, do you hear? glad with all my heart to see these CRIMINALS finally come to justice.
An EULA by a private organization is NO DIFFERENT from a constitutionally sound law passed by a majority of our elected senate and subject to the scrutiny, [1] of an impartial office whose members are appointed by a democratically elected leader (and subject to approval by our democratically elected senate.)
I don't know about you, but I'll be GLAD when my tax dollars go toward knocking my door down for modding my xbox (which will be specifically illegalificated by the EULA). I'll be laughing all the way to the electric chair! And then have my sentence compounded (two consecutive electrocutions?) for sitting in the electric chair in a non-authorized way!
How beautiful the world will be when EULA's reign supreme!
~Robert.
[1] against the standard of a sacred document detailing our most cherished rights, and being the only thing separating us from a fascist regime appointed by the majority -- Hitler was elected, don't-ya-know.
Captain Sheth Fourbranes of the Toledo, Ohio criminal investigations division said a search of Kremnall's glove box yielded a cache of thirty three condiment packets from more than a dozen fast food restaurants scattered across six northern Ohio counties. "Ketchup, mustard, relish -- she had it all," Fourbranes, speaking at an afternoon press conference, said. "We estimate a street value on this stuff of nearly six bits."
The attorney general's office, calling this a "major victory for law-abiding citizens everywhere", said if convicted the accused could face up to forty two years in prison. Mrs. Kremnall, who is scheduled to be arraigned later this week, was unavailable for comment, but a friend of a friend is said to have described her as being "two french fries short of a Happy Meal".
Yea, afterall, those uncappers are known to be a violent heavily armed bunch. They were probably using the extra bandwidth to host terrorist-training servers using the widely available terrorist-training tool Counter-Strike. If they hadn't gone in prepared they might've got taken out by a camper with an awp.
I thought ports only went up to 2^16 ? Maybe if he hadn't been a script kiddy, he wouldn't have had so much trouble.
Does that mean I can call the FBI and have them kick the door in with guns drawn if someone steals my car stereo? Or keeps prank calling me?
:D
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This is a Toshiba PCX2200 Cable Modem, most powerful cable modem in the whole world. I hit you hard enough with this modem and it would blow your head clean off.
... do you feel lucky?
You gotta ask yourself
Well, do you punk?
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
Just because something which is illegal and involves a computer, doesn't make it "cybercrime".
Good point - if someone bashes someone over the head with a keyboard is that cybercrime too? Or does the system unit have to be involved?
That's much too good for them. Make it a 2400 baud modem in a 286 system, and force 'em to connect via a WWIV BBS -- that'll *really* teach 'em the error of their ways!!
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
I propose that we give ISP's a small island in the Pacific that they can use as a prison to save society from these attacks and as part of their punishment, give them AOL and a 28.8Kbps modem.
Scene: a small, paradisical Pacific island, several square miles of golden beaches, clear blue seas, a sky so blue it hurts your eyes to look at it, and local native girls even prettier than the skies.
ISP Owner one: (Lying on the beach, with a coconut in his hand) So, watcha been doing?
ISP Owner two: Oh, the usual. You know, surf, scuba diving, banging the pretty native girls.
ISP Owner one: How's the SQL download doing?
ISP Owner two: 22% so far. At this rate, we'll get it all downloaded by next March.
ISP Owner one: Too bad we can't leave this "prison" yet... heh heh heh.
Yup, what a horrible, awful punishment that would be.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
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