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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."
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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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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
... 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.
That's "vendetta"
HTH
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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.
If my dollars are worthless why are you going to give me gold for them?
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.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
$250,000? That's nothing! At least he wasn't caught sharing four or five songs...