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T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-directly-to-jail dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Summary is misleading... by mboverload · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It is one thing to crack into a network. Stealing social security numbers and personal photos is another, however.

    Other than the "respect" we give him for being able to pull it off, he had no noble intensions in mind what so ever. This man deserves none of our, or your, sympathy.

  2. Secret Service! by mboverload · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Nicholas Lee Jacobsen accessed US Secret Service email...

    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.

  3. Throw the book at him... by ttys00 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... 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.

  4. Re:no way, jose by mboverload · · Score: 4, Insightful
    No way. Even for a hacker restricting computer use is WAY too far. Computers are a part of life that one can not avoid. It would be like restricting the use of the kitchen because you hurt someone with a knife.

    As for your comment about fuck up once and your out, keep in mind many convictions are of innocent people. Also, the only way to start to get these people into society is to get them JOBS! Give them a meaning to life and a way to support it. I know I would want help if I ever fell into crime. To humans purpose is extremely important. Onc eyour in jail long enough you just loose all sense of that. I had an uncle in prision and he told me all about how it screws with your mind. He is now legit and all, but some of it still lingers.

  5. Re:Get a clue, idiot. by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    by offering them a chance to wank off instead of turning into raping each other? by making it less accepted, making the prisons less overcrowed? with that attitude, why do you mind about rapes outside of prison?

    you know, it's not really civil to punish one from selling crack by few years in prison and 88 assrapes - it would be considered quite uncivilised if it was said out loud like that in court(it would be torture! or death sentence if you manage to get hiv). for a country that prides on having standard freedom and rights for all it's quite backwards to be thinking that you lose them the second someone deems you guilty.

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