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Hacker Resells VOIP For Profit
uncleO writes "The New York Times tells the story of today's arrest of Edwin Andres Pena, 23, who 'hacked into computers run by an unsuspecting investment company in Rye Brook, N.Y., commandeered its unprotected servers, and re-routed his phone traffic through them,' then 'used more than $1 million he received from his customers to go on a spending spree, buying real estate in south Florida, a 40-foot Sea Ray Mercruiser motor boat, and luxury cars including a BMW and a Cadillac Escalade.'"
I'm never gonna get used to VOIP. Caffineated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? ADMIRAL Crunch?
Here's reference for you young whipper snappers
If thou see a fair woman pay court to her, for thus thou wilt obtain love
in this story is that he went and bought a Cadillac...
WHO CARES...... VOIP is the devil, I had one but then I had an anureism in my left temporal lobe that exploded and blew out my eyeball causing me to stumble and fall down some stairs and cracked open my leg and got gangrene and then had ot have it amputated below the knee. So now I am known as the anti-VOIP pirate. when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - figure it out
Why is it that most thieves have no taste? The BMW is okay, but most of that is tacky sh*t you could win on The Price is Right.
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...allowed one phone call when arrested!!
AT&ROFLMAO
This article sounds like a HOWTO! -click-
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If he was in the Government, he would have gotten a medal of freedom, and a nice no-bid contract after this was done.
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Disconnect! Disconnect! The Gig is up!
If the Escalade is on stock rims I really don't think you can call it a luxury automobile. I kinda symphathize with this guy. He starts his own business, buys a cadi, and his rims don't even spin. You can't live in Florida with stock rims! So he cuts a few corners but still provides for his customers. Then ya know you gotta have a boat too and you don't want a flounder boat so he gets the 40 foot Mercury. Being environmentally conscious as he is it occurred to him to save gas and bought a beamer. At no point did he upgrade any rims or purchase any HKS parts. I think this guy is a shining example of how Republicans are leading us in the right directions. Enron forevers!!!
"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian."
Jeez, what an idiot. All he had to do to stay out of trouble was to split all the traffic off to the NSA so they could eavesdrop on it all. They'd have leaned on the FBI to keep him out of the lockup. Probably would've gotten a medal from W even...
That's right, we don't.
Oh bugger...
Oh no... it's the future.
Hacker Resells VOIP For "Fun" and Profit
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Most criminals are too stupid to spell "schenectady"
Conjugal!? We're talking about a hacker, remember?
Well.. I, for one, never really bought into the myth that kids today are unmotivated. It is good to see someone with ambition and drive. I am, like many others, sadly noting the use he put his money to.
Dude, its not Swiss bank accounts or the Cayman Islands. Its Vegas Baby.. Alcohol, women, drugs, gambling... In my day, we did not give a damn about the future as we knew we could always steal more. They can take your possessions away, but never your memories. In my day, we created companies that sold nothing and listed money invested by venture capitalists as "sales" and gave ourselves huge bonuses.. This plan would have really worked, if you have followed the 1990's model and not actually provided any services...
On the serious side tho.. Doesn't this raise some fundamental questions about VOIP security? If I am reading this correctly, they did not hack the VOIP software itself, but a computer on which they resided, then ran the software normally. That opens a lot of systems worldwide to this sort of scheme.
I do not think he need any sympathies and advice from /. crowd
This is slashdot - we love giving advice (on anything to anyone). Here is my advice for the hacker: A minimum security prison is no picnic. - The trick is: kick someone's ass the first day or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be all right.
And when you gaze long enough into the code, the code will also gaze into you.
He should have gotten a Nigerian Prince to find someone that can help him hide the money. That's what I would have done.
In my day, we resold VOIP for fun. The profit was just a nice side benefit.
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