Microsoft Tricks Hacker Into Jail

Posted by Zonk on Monday January 30, 2006 @12:29AM from the ha-ha dept.

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.'"

2 of 284 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

So in theory, I can put Microsoft in jail, too by layer3switch · 2006-01-30 00:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Only if I can sucker Microsoft to buy the Brooklyn Bridge...

---
Don't let the fools fool you. They are the clever ones."

--
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
Re:M$ by pmenefee · 2006-01-30 03:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Google has done a very evil thing in China.