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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."
I wonder if the job offers have already started, or if the security companies are waiting until this particular piece of human trash gets out of jail.
All that and he only got 11 months? While there's a guy in California doing life for stealing a candy bar?
Also, the blurb failed to mention that this nice young fellow wasn't acting alone (see the Register's coverage from this morning)
Maybe T-mobile will get their act together now and fix all the problems. Who knows.
From TFA:
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In June, a second phone company became a victim to the juvenile's attack, according to the U.S. Attorney's statement. A phone that had been activated fraudulently was disabled, and the teen retaliated with a denial-of-service attack on the company's Web site when it refused to reactivate the phone.
Im not trying to troll, but what kind of professional website gets harmed by a DOS attack anymore. Slashdot alone should make webmasters think twice before putting up a service with a server that cant handle DOS attacks.
+1 funny, -2 overrated. Life isn't fair.
I can't for the life of me figure out why stuff like this keeps getting stuck in the YRO section. As far as I can tell, the only person whose rights were in any danger was Paris Hilton - granted, her privacy is largely a theoretical concept these days, but nevertheless, what possible bearing does this kind of thing have on my rights online?
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its being a good con artist! So what, this guy was able to sound like paris hilton, and she picked a stupid 'password reminder' that he used to get the real info from a phone jockey at T-mobile. Calling this kid a hacker is JUST WRONG.
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time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
Some kid guessed her password reminder and we're calling him a hacker? Even "cracker" would be too good for this feat of leetness.
Not sure I'd even deign to call him a script-kiddie.
Argh.
I think 11 months is a reasonable sentence for the first offense of someone who committed a serious crime, but not a violent one.
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So, what I want to know is, what punitive measures were taken against T-mobile for having such poor security processes that a teenager could pull this off for so long without being stopped?
It is easy to send one kid, who probably couldn't afford more than a public defender, to jail. But what does it do to fix the problem? There are thousands more kids who could do the same thing, there are probably tens of professionals who are doing it right now and are smart enough to say under the radar.
Other than the fact that T-mobile has the big gun lawyers, big gun lobbyists and big gun 'campaign contributions' - why haven't they been prosecuted for negligence?
Too bad nobody makes that response to the +5 funny prison rape comments.
And of course Mitnick waiving his right to a speedy trial and his defense team requesting delays during the trial had NOTHING to do with why it took so long, right?
I've been sentenced for a D.U.I. offense. My 3rd one. When I first came to prison, I had no idea what to expect. Certainly none of this. I'm a tall white male, who unfortunately has a small amount of feminine characteristics. And very shy. These characteristics have got me raped so many times I have no more feelings physically. I have been raped by up to 5 black men and two white men at a time. I've had knifes at my head and throat. I had fought and been beat so hard that I didn't ever think I'd see straight again. One time when I refused to enter a cell, I was brutally attacked by staff and taken to segragation though I had only wanted to prevent the same and worse by not locking up with my cell mate. There is no supervision after lockdown. I was given a conduct report. I explained to the hearing officer what the issue was. He told me that off the record, He suggests I find a man I would/could willingly have sex with to prevent these things from happening. I've requested protective custody only to be denied. It is not available here. He also said there was no where to run to, and it would be best for me to accept things . . . . I probably have AIDS now. I have great difficulty raising food to my mouth from shaking after nightmares or thinking to hard on all this . . . . I've laid down without physical fight to be sodomized. To prevent so much damage in struggles, ripping and tearing. Though in not fighting, it caused my heart and spirit to be raped as well. Something I don't know if I'll ever forgive myself for. ...and I'll keep posting this story every time slashdot advocates rape and moderators mod it up.
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