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Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months
n3hat writes "A former America Online software engineer was sentenced to 15 months in prison for stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers who sent out up to 7 billion unsolicited e-mail messages, according to this A.P. story in the Baltimore Sun."
AOL still blows and we are amazed people still use it.
I know, I know... probably a flamebait rating but come on, you know you giggled!
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Obligatory Family Guy joke: "Remember last week when you asked me to define irony and I said - urarghhh!" AOL personally kept me supplied with floppy disks during my school dayz, and many a cd coaster when I started working IT. These guys are the king of snail mail spam (virus(AOL8) laden cd's anyone :) and here this guy goes and follows their lead online, further screwing over the poor AOL customers. I love it.
The rock, the vulture, and the chain
Prisoner #1: So what're you in for?
Prisoner #2: Aggravated assault. You?
Prisoner #1: Armed robbery. How 'bout you?
AOL Engineer: I stole 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and sold them to spammers who sent out up to 7 billion unsolicited e-mail messages.
Prisoners #1 and 2 inch away from AOL Engineer at the lunch table
How many years are AOL's management getting for... well, managing AOL.
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"He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!"
Indeed.
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
All in the name of poetic justice.
Fight Spammers!
"You've Got Jail !"
StupidChildren...the reason jesus is crying
He's NOT that cute.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
He better pray for solitary confinement. Bubba and his posse are all fiercely loyal AOL users and they don't NEED no \/i@GR@ or Ci@li5.
"I aided spammers, but they only hurt AOL users, what's wrong with that?"
Cost in dolars delete spam from your AOL account: $5
Cost to have CompUSSR repair your PC from spyware: $150
The look on the spammer's face as he see "Bubba" get a penis enlargement spam: Priceless
There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's KARMA!
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The most I've ever got from AOL was 1 month free.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Take a look at his photo so you'll know what I mean....
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I couldn't resist.
Why don't we put this clown in the stocks in the public square of his hometown, and let anyone who's received a spam from his customers slap him upside the head?
Sure, it might result in a fatal concussion sometime around the fourth of fifth hour of people lining up to smack him, but them's the breaks.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Yeah, we should totally have a legal system where only people who aren't nitwits get due process. Everybody who IS a nitwit should just rot in jail.
Who picks the nitwits?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
You've got jail!
really? I submitted a story once and they changed the hyperlinks, changed the text, changed who the story was from, and they even changed what the story was about.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
" If I had to go to jail for a cybercrime, I would at least want the other inmates to understand the charge."
The public at large may not be experts in some of the more sophisticated crimes, nor in the finer points of intellectual property (e.g., as applied to those database records), but stuff like spam is something you don't need a Ph.D. in CS to understand. If someone doesn't understand, someone else will explain it to them.
Spammer: "I sold 92 million AOL email addresses to spammers."
Bubba: "Uh, wot's a spammer"
Billy Joe: "Bubba, you know those 'enlarge your penis' and 'horny teens waiting for you' messages you told me your little daughter was getting on AOL? This guy told them where to send those."
Which way it goes from there, I wouldn't know. But from there Bubba understands exactly what the cybercrime was.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
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He should have his own designated bit of highway, so the rest of us know where to throw out our junkmailed AOL cds.
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
To be fair, the only people who got 'hurt' by all of that spam were AOL users. Let's all repeat the helpdesk mantra: Stupidity should be painful.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
From AOL TV commercial: "To say thanks, I baked you this apple crumb cake!"
Who thinks this guy should only eat apple crumb cake for the next 15 months, say aye!