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Ex-judge Gets 27 Months on Evidence From Hacked PC

Posted by samzenpus on from the lesser-of-two-evils dept.

netbsd_fan writes "A former California judge has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for possession of illegal pornography, based entirely on evidence gathered by an anonymous vigilante script kiddie in Canada. At any given time he was monitoring over 3,000 innocent people. The anonymous hacker says, "I would stay up late at night to see what I could drag out of their computers, which turned out to be more than I expected. I could read all of their e-mails without them knowing. As far as they were concerned, they didn't know their e-mails had even been opened. I could see who they were chatting with and read what they were saying as they typed."

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  1. Waits for it.. by neoform · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh sure, blame Canada.

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    1. Re:Waits for it.. by MS-06FZ · · Score: 4, Funny

      Riiight... and warrants are for what? For cops. Do bounty hunters need a warrant? Same thing. Bounty hunters? We don't need those scum.
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  2. Son of a ..... by AftanGustur · · Score: 5, Funny


    The son of a coffee shop owner, Mr. Willman, a.k.a. Omni-Potent, ....

    And he stayed up all night .. night after night ... I wonder what kept him awake ?

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  3. Re:Bust the buster? by bersl2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good point. What's the difference between possession with intent to expose someone and possession with intent to masturbate? It's still possession, right?

    Could I have worded that any worse? :D

  4. The script kiddy part... by Gazzonyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    The hacker in question was referred to as a 'script kiddy' solely for the fact that upon hearing of his success in implicating the former judge, he immediately blogged his victory on myspace under the appropriate title of 'PWN3D!'. Ergo, this title is moreso an indicator of maturity than his technical skill level, and furthermore, an indicator that he lives in his parents basement.

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    1. Re:The script kiddy part... by fbjon · · Score: 4, Funny

      an indicator that he lives in his parents basement.
      From TFA:

      "And don't tell me about meeting girls -- boy oh boy."

      He is now working hard to launch a computer security career and thinking about moving out of his parents' basement to assume a new identity so he can hack again.

      He is, in fact, living in his parents' basement. This guy's a slashdotter for sure.
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    2. Re:The script kiddy part... by Gazzonyx · · Score: 5, Funny
      I'm a slashdotter, as well; I didn't read the article and posted about it anyways.

      Never in my life has blindly applying a stereotype yielded such positive results! I laughed at first, and then it hit me. As irony would have it, the double bladed sword in this case is that I just blindly applied a stereotype, that hit the nail on the head through the dark, only to realize that I just made fun of the very guy that the world sees me as.

      Oh cruel irony! It doth smite me mightily! Twice.

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    3. Re:The script kiddy part... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      What the fuck is "internet lingo"?
      I believe the term you are looking for is "iLingo"
    4. Re:The script kiddy part... by Gazzonyx · · Score: 3, Funny
      Who, me? No - I'm a broke college student/intern admin majoring in software development.

      My parents were too cool to have the likes of me around. They kept giving me wedgies and calling me 'geek boy'. I'll get them back when they're old and senile and I get to choose whose basement they live in!

      Mom, dad, I'd like you to meet your new 'roomie', Mr. John Dvorak. You kids play nice, now!

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  5. Re:Bust the buster? by computational+super · · Score: 3, Funny
    What about the child prostitutes that everyone knows about

    WHERE? I mean... that's terrible...

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  6. Re:US of A by computational+super · · Score: 3, Funny
    The age of marriage in some US states is as low as 12 years.

    WHERE? I mean... that's terrible...

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  7. Re:Berlin zoo. Paris Gare du Nord. by jahudabudy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't get me wrong, I find inappropriate jokes hilarious - I thought the original "WHERE" joke pretty funny. But I have to disagree with the idea that it is even possible to take some things, such as child prostitution, too seriously. I'm not saying everyone MUST take it completely seriously, but the ones that do aren't somehow making too much of it. I mean, it not like it's something trivial, like wife-beating :-)

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  8. Use Microsoft / Go to Jail ? by sugarmotor · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not mentioned, but likely; was the judge running Windows?

    Stephan

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  9. Re:Bust the buster? by CortoMaltese · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the difference between possession with intent to expose someone and possession with intent to masturbate? It's still possession, right? "I plead not guilty, your honor. I had no intent to masturbate."
  10. Re:Bust the buster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I plead not guilty, your honor. I had no intent to masturbate."

    Use the gun defence: "I was just cleaning it and it went off!"