Hilton Hacker Gets 11 Months

B747SP writes "Well, the guy who 'acquired' the contents of Paris Hilton's Sidekick telephone and published them on the Internet has had his day in court. T-Mobile USA and the State of Massachusetts are pleased to report that he has been sentenced to 11 months in a juvenile facility. He's also not allowed to own or use a computer, a cellphone, or any other device that can access the Internet for two years. It turns out that the Hilton hack was just one of many Bad Things(tm) that he had been up to: calling in bomb threats to schools, creating T-Mobile accounts for himself and his friends, breaking in to data broker LexisNexis' systems are just a few of his exploits."

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How Hilton Was Hacked

[airherbe]

An explanation of how Paris Hilton's Sidekick was hacked can be found here. A pretty interesting read.

//J

Re:To coin a phrase...

[Fox_1]

He most certainly was not Mitnicked, that would require 4 years of imprisonment without a trial. It would require overzealous prosecution by the state and the media. This kid got a speedy trial, not imprisonment without a trial, and a relatively light sentence considering the scope of his crimes.

Re:Hmm

[Zordak]

The guy who the movie "Catch Me If You Can" was based on ended up in the employ of the FBI detecting counterfeit stuff because he was so damned good at it. Then people started arresting those who did such things. It's far less common for these people to get security jobs after their jail-time.

Frank Abagnale, Jr. spent six months in a French prison where he could not stand erect and where he slept in his own excrement. He was borderline insane when he was finally released to the custody of (IIRC) the Netherlands, where he spent about a year in a much nicer prison. He was slated to be turned over to (again, IIRC) Spain, where he would have spent time in another miserable and inhumane prison, but his Dutch captors took pity on him and found a way to invalidate his passport. That meant they had to "deport" him to the United States, where he promptly escaped by crawling out of the toilet when his plane landed. He was re-captured and spent some time in a US prison. He still managed to start his own security consulting business and make millions of dollars. The difference was not the jail time. The difference was that he was truly brilliant and he apparently did not have a truly criminal disposition. He was basically a horny teenager (much of his crime was committed in pursuit of women). When he got some maturity, he was able to put his skills to a beneficial use. He also eventually paid back all of the money he stole.

In contrast, I'm betting this little hacker twerp is some wannabe who got ahold of a computer and read a couple of "howto" sites. He may or may not have the disposition of a hardened criminal, but until he does something original, nobody will notice him. Maybe if he's lucky, he'll get a wikipedia entry.