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Stupid Hacker Tricks - The Folly of Youth

Posted by timothy on from the reap-and-sow dept.

N_burnsy points out an article in Computerworld which "profiles several youthful hackers, some still serving prison time, some free, who have been caught indulging in some fairly serious cybercrime, and looks at their crimes and the lessons they have (or have not yet) learned. Starting with Farid 'Diab10' Essebar, currently a guest of the Moroccan prison system, who wrote and distributed the Mytob, Rbot, and Zotob botnet Trojans. There's Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov, all guests of the Russian penal system, sentenced to eight years at hard labor for creating a botnet to engage in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks to blackmail online gambling sites based in the UK, threatening to take the sites down during major sporting events. Then there's Shawn Nematbakhsh who was a little too eager to prove a point about the electronic balloting system that the University of California employed to hold student council elections, by writing a script that cast 800 votes for a fictitious candidate named American Ninja." Not everyone on the list is exactly youthful, and the range of offenses shows how lumpy this area is both to the law and in public perception.

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  1. Oh boy... by Pahroza · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't even get me started on the folly of youth!

    This one time, at band camp...

  2. URGET: HELP NEEDEED! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    CmdrTAco here. A few weeks ago, I was brutally raped by 3-4 guys. It was humiliating and painful. The police haven't been able to help find the men responsible. Anyhow, this weekend, my wife will be out of town. If you know who was responsible, or know anyone whoe might be interested, I'll be home alone all weekend with the door unlocked!!

    Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda

  3. Re:Link without 5 pages of ads... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Average Slashdot readers explaination for that would probably be "oh, it probably run Linux".

    I don't dare to post this as myself because then I would be moderated flamebait instead of funny. /aliquis

  4. Re:Ok so by kv9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how about a fucking car analogy there, sparky?

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