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Ohio Cracker Confesses to Attacks For Hire
Ritalin16 writes "An Ohio computer hacker recently pled guilty to carrying out crippling denial-of-service attacks on a shady internet hosting company's competitors. From the article: 'In a deal with prosecutors, Richard "Krashed" Roby, 20, pleaded guilty in federal court in Toledo last month to intentionally damaging a protected computer, after launching a 2003 attack on an online satellite TV retailer that caused at least $120,000 in losses.'" Another article indicating an openness on the international stage to cracking for cash.
This is neither hacking, nor is it cracking. This is just filthy DoSsing.
Attacking companies' online presence and preventing them doing business is only a step away from being as bad as smashing a store's windows in and tossing a stink/smoke bomb in and clearing the store out for an entire day while the workers clean up. If they were to destroy all of the databases, corrupt the server settings and destroy the web applications, it would be almost as bad as throwing a pipe bomb in through the window at night after everyone is gone. This is no more honorable than hiring the mafia to "protect you" from competitors.
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Still, it's quite sad that someone would spend their time taking down other people's servers, in order that a third party makes money, and then go to jail. Personally, it's hard to really see how people can end up in that situation. As far as I am concerned, the person who ordered the hits, Jay Echouafni should be in jail and the hacker should get help to find something more worthwhile to do with his time.
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No, Richard is ruthless. If you knew him like I do, you'd know he belongs behind bars. He ddoses anything that moves.
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Jay Echouafni, the 38-year-old satellite TV mogul who allegedly ordered and funded the cyberhits, went on the lam last year, and remains a fugitive from a federal indictment out of Los Angeles.
the worst part is that this guy is still out there and hasn't been caught yet. hopefully it's only a matter of time before he's nabbed
"Under federal sentencing guidelines, Ashley faces 70 to 87 months in prison for his role in the attacks" Unless he pleads non-guilty, which he should. If you plead guilty then they give you the maximum sentence. Non-guilty defendants have a change of arguing a couple of years off their sentence.
And if someone insults my sister it's ok for me to slit his throat, right?
the hacker should get help to find something more worthwhile to do with his time.
IMNSHO, cooling his heels in prison is a much more worthwhile use of his time than what he was doing on the outside.
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Are you kidding?
If every claim on Slashdot had to be substantiated, and proven...we'd all sit around doing research, and creating bibliographies.
This isn't a peer-reviewed publication. We don't need to prove anything.
Especially to an anonymous coward.
(By the way- I know that AC. And his mom sleeps with anonymous men she meets in chat rooms.)
No reason to lie.
Two things are being done. First, the FBI is nailing inept perpetrators as they can. This is like trying to cure a flea infestation by pinching the fleas off your friend's back. The second, more effective thing is the replacement of Windoze. Without Windoze, there will be no botnet. If you are new here, I suggest you get one of the following to improve your computing experience and help stamp out the weakness that will destroy the net:
With so many choices, there will never be Windoze type problems on free software. The exploits will not carry into more than 10% of the install base at a time. Go get some and take a bite out of crime.
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Roby and the rest of his cracker gang are criminals and deserve jailtime when they're proven guilty. But the cops caught these guys because all they had to use to get away was a measly $1000. The guy who hired them, Echouafni, is "on the lam", because he's got the money to hide. So the cops and prosecutors will pounce all over Roby, because he's an easy target. Will the keystone kops take any heat for not getting Echouafni, who will easily find other people who are "brilliant in one area, but absolutely lacking in common sense in others"?
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As far as I am concerned, the person who ordered the hits, Jay Echouafni should be in jail and the hacker should get help to find something more worthwhile to do with his time.
So, should an amateur boxer who beats the crap out of people for a living not be charged with aggravated assault because he was doing it for money? I agree that the person who ordered the hits should do time, but I also think the guy who carried out the orders should too.
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Please explain to us how you are going to prevent 100 million clueless users from allowing their machines to be p0wn3d when they get that email with a REALLY COOL SCREENSAVER!!!1! and a .tar file attachment that has a script with the execute bit set. I mean, they infect their 'Windoze' machines now that way. With worms on password-protected ZIP files. Please tell us how you're going to prevent them from entering their root password when a program they downloaded from Kazaa asks them for it.
Go ahead, enlighten us as to what is going to happen when 100 million people switch from 'Windoze'.