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Microsoft Tricks Hacker Into Jail
CompotatoJ writes "Wired News reported that William 'IllWill' Genovese was sentenced to prison after being tricked by a Microsoft Investigator offering to pay $20 for a copy of the secret source code. From the article: 'The investigator then returned and arranged a second $20 transaction for an FBI agent, which led to Genovese's indictment under the U.S. Economic Espionage Act, which makes it a felony to sell a company's stolen trade secrets ... [Microsoft] has also expressed fears that making its source code public could allow hackers to find security holes in Microsoft products -- though, so far, intruders are doing fine without the source.'"
You paid $200 for the Windows source? Dude, you got ripped off!
Oh no... it's the future.
Submitter actin' like he never seen a ten before.
...will serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, during which he'll be subject to electronic monitoring through special software installed on his computer
Looks like they have finally found a legal use for the Sony Rootkit.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
The company has long maintained that the source code to Windows and other products are its crown jewels, and that making the code public could cause serious harm by stripping it of trade-secret status, and allowing competitors to duplicate the functionality of Microsoft software.
Come on - anybody can code up a BSOD if they really want to.
Should Mark from sysinternals be worried?
liqbase
paid $200 and the go to jail..
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I heard recently about three hackers which were charged but microsoft later dropped all charges and decided not sue. I believe their names were Whitman Price and Haddad.
Snack attack, mutha f*****!!!
I don't know about you, but my servers run on the power of cotton candy and happy thoughts. -Anonymous Coward
Google doesn't trick people into jail.
really 867993
Karma schkarma
... Remainings of MS lawer that tricked Don Vito Genovese's grandson into jail found in shoebox.
839*929
Now that's news.
He downloaded the source from a P2P program. My mother could do that.
:)
Really? Would she be interested in selling it? Please, speak a little louder...
"Hell, he was the only one to be indited even though everyone and their dog has thsi source code"
After reading this I became curious and checked my dog's bedding, and sure enough I found a copy of the Microsoft source code.
See, you're supposed to defend yourself before you're sent to prison.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Google doesn't trick people into jail.
After drinking Steve Jobs' koolaid, people would
voluntarity go & get themselves arrested, if Jobs
asked them to. And would even pay daily board &
food charges at the jail.
When you download it from P2P, it looks so full of bugs and poorly written, it can't be the real thing!
So, what's his Slashdot username?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I'm not entirely sure how slashdot works either, but if you think he read the article, before he posted his comment, you understand slashdot a lot worse than most people.
See, you're supposed to post first before anyone else can.