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T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty
hackajar writes "The Register is reporting Nicholas Lee Jacobsen plead guilty to cracking into T-Mobile's phones. He was picked up in mid October of last year in the "Operation Firewall" sweep by the FBI. He faces "maximum five years' prison and a $250,000 fine" according to the site."
all my SMS's are belong to him
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- Seneca
1. Are any of them of Lindsey Lohan in the shower?
2. If so, does anyone have a link?
mmmm...soapy....
Is there such a thing as Samurai Porn? Yes. Yes there is.
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As I recall, he wasn't picked up in the Operation Firewall sweep (although he would have been), instead, he turned himself in several days before the arrests.
Secondly, the maximum five year/$250,000 fine thing is standard for a single felony. In all likelyhood he will get MUCH less, especially because he cooperated and plead guilty.
Why the hell are the secret service sending unencrypted emails (!!!) other a PUBLIC, wireless phone system. I don't like our president or anything, but he deserves more than some hack jobs practically advertising themselves to the world.
Here is an article about Operation Firewall. Interesting that wikipedia does not yet have an entry on it... http://www.viruslist.com/en/news?id=154205192
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/12/hacker_pen etrates_t-mobile/
Make him work unpaid with only room and board as a slave for T-Mobile as a security technician.
Oh yeah..slavery...
I guess it's not such a good idea, but without the bad past of slavery, but incarceration is just a waste of money, when he could be using his "talent" positively. By forcing them to atone for their crimes perhaps they will learn the error of their ways by dealing with (in this case) people trying to crack the same security network he is now trying to secure.
Monitor him, which will probably cost less than the prison fees. He is not a danger to society, he is just simply someone who overstepped their legal boundary. I believe prison should be for violent criminals. Not that he will go to a real tough prison.
But if he screws up in the program outside of prison as rehabilitation, then he would be sent to a maximum security prison to serve the sentence to the end.
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Maximum of five years and a $250,000 fine is the maximum for a single felony. From the previous article:
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The same source also offers an explanation for the secrecy surrounding the case: the Secret Service, the source says, has offered to put the hacker to work, pleading him out to a single felony, then enlisting him to catch other computer criminals in the same manner in which he himself was caught. The source says that Jacobsen, facing the prospect of prison time, is favorably considering the offer.
It seems that a surefire way to get a job tracking down criminals for the government is to get arrested for committing crimes, a bummer for us regular folk
Hi, Is it just me, or does somebody at Slashdot have a personal vendeta against The Society for Correct Spelling? *rolls eyes* It's happened so many times in the past few weeks that I was starting to think it was intentional, some clever attempt to subvert the Establishment and show how progressive they are....or, maybe I'm over-analysing it.... Anyway, back to the topic - I wonder if the FBI will cut a spill-the-beans deal with him? I mean, breaking into a major telco...that's gotta be worth at least a couple of hacker brownie points... bye, Victor
...will we be seeing the 'candid' photos? It's not like Paris Hilton and her ilk could embarrass themselves any further.
FUNNY: Cracker = whitey. Black faceplates = black people whitey cracks on. Get a fucking clue, mods.
I thought I was accessing my WiFi AP. Its SSID was T-Moblile!"
The difference between spam and poop is that you don't have to dig through septic tanks looking for real food. -- Me
better yet, pass a law that says anyone convicted of a computer crime can't work with computers. something like what they do with criminals who harm children. laws make it illegal for them to work or be around children.
even with driving privliges, after so many tickets, they will take a drivers license away.
oh, about your statement that incarceration is a waste of money, no it is not. it keeps these animals out of mainstream society, and after their sentance is done, they will still be in databases so we know who they are. that is the real value. employers can weed them out. better colleges can make admissions more difficult. neighborhoods can make living there difficult. it is all about punishment. no more three strikes and you're out. i say, fuck up once, and that is it.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
i think i saved that kids life.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
How ironic since the FED actually owns the money and its a 100% combo of 12 corp banks (most none american)
Now through lending practices and credit, over 7% of the GDP in M3 money supply is made each year out of thin air , nothing. Now tell me that isnt legalized complex (oh its business) way of counterfeiting money. ie 700billion yearly.
If you want to steal $$$, dont, just setup your own bank www.caymanco.com for $50k, and start 'lending' out 9x your capital to your own 'fake' businesses aswell as real ones, before you know it, you'll have so much moeny you will be part of the boys club.
Wall street are the biggest theifs in history, its just that its day2day business that looks legit that its allowed. When everyone is part of the scam, then no one believes there is a scam.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
... and hope nobody realises that if this guy can read secret service emails by himself, foreign government intelligence agencies (ie. whatever the KGB is called these days) with more resources and more staff must be finding it laughably easy.
Getting hit in the head with a sledgehammer would really suck most of the fun out of my day. But I laugh when it happens to Moe, and he takes it out on Larry and Curly.
It's being close to the pain that hurts. An since we're the most highly evolved predators on this gap between celestial impacts, there's a lot of pain. And while they're nothing wrong with being empethetic, wallowing in the ocean of misery that's out there can make a person insane. So, step back and laugh at it once in a while, and you know what, it doesn't seem so scary or hopeless.
We've got holocaust jokes. A clever turn of phase about turning of an asshole's cheeks once in a while isn't going to diminish our species. It's a small revenge on the poor judgement and character of those who plague us. He's fortunate in a way that we're so evolved as to simply laugh at his misfortune. Not to long ago we'd be all too quick to lend our own torches or stones too it. It's cathartic and a small joy that deprives no one of anything. Let people have their reindeer games and you can free up your conscience for worrying about the real evils, such as actual prison rape.
Samurai Porn? It's the internet after all....
h4xxored teh slashdot spelchekcer!
-1, spelling flame
Is this a "How subtle a spelling error can we get in an article title" competition?
You didn't get it past me, muhahaha..
"T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty"
Nice try though!
David
He may have had malicious intent but he turned himself in, he exposed yet again the crummy security of big companies. Let him go with a tap on the hand.
Well finally the mans starting to send some of ya'll crackers up the river too. We could use summore a dem tight cracka asses in here. Shit we just been passin round the same 3 honkeys for like months already, I could damm near get a carton of smokes for dat new kid.
I for one welcome our new vengeful sith overlords.
$250,000? That's nothing! At least he wasn't caught sharing four or five songs...
The only real reason why hackers get caught is because they always have to boast about what they have done.
Don't underestimate the horrors that happen in U.S. prisons. People have gotten sent to jails for writing bad checks or having a baggie of pot on them, and ended up getting gang raped.
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From the Jargon File:
hacker (n): 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet Users' Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
cracker (n): One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8 [above]).
YAY!!!! Someone is getting it right this time.
Cracker = Computer User with malicious intent(tm)
Hacker = Happy fun analyzer, and builder of systems
"Sources say the hacker was also able to download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, which were shared within the hacking community."
Where are these photos?
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now he will have his butt cracked
Am I the only one who read this as a joke about butt phones, the diagnostic telephones carried by phone company technitians?
As well, obviously, as being about prison sex. The juxtaposition of the two meanings gives rise to the humor, as always. Guess its too obscure for most ppl (or Im just leaping to false conclusions)
It's about practical living in our society. We spend $30-40K:y average on incarceration. Afterwards, especially with the detailed and thoroughly used recordkeeping you're talking about, the ex-con has little alternative but to steal or otherwise commit crime to survive. Even with alternatives, keeping them in jail, punishing them, with only other criminals to turn to for society, cranks out more and harder criminals. They're people, not animals, so they can always be made worse by abusing them.
I say, encourage "good behavior" by giving every kid who graduates high school on time a $1000 bonus, no strings attached. Give every kid who graduates in the top 50% of their class an extra $1000. If it keeps an extra 1% out of jail, it pays for itself. Not to mention the savings in spared damage from skipped crime, and the extra production from educated noncriminals. The actual numbers probably just have to be something like 0.1% fewer criminals to pay for itself.
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make install -not war
His only CRIME was CURIOSITY!
Information wants to BE FREE! FREEDOM!
This man should be placed on a pedestal as he is a FREEDOM FIGHTER against the oppressive CORPORATIONS!
Only in AMERIKKKA would he be sent to jail.
You can kill the revolutionaries, but you can't kill the REVOLUTION!
He broke into our vendor's network, Danger/Hiptop. All information he gleaned was from their network. He gained minimum access to the real T-Mobile network. Nothing on the My Tmobile site was accessable to him, including the photo albums.
I tend to get pissy with people who are too anal about spelling (particularly in people's posts) -- but in the article itself, it's pretty unprofessional. Would it be that difficult to have articles run through ispell before they can be posted?
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