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Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job
An anonymous reader writes "It has been a number of years since the fantasy that hackers will be offered a job by those who they hacked was even a potential reality, but this might still be the case in New Zealand. An 18-year-old hacker responsible for writing a number of applications used by an online group called 'the A-Team' that allowed the creation of a million-plus machine botnet and a range of credit card fraud activities to take place, has walked free from court sans conviction despite pleading guilty. And to top it all off, the NZ police force were interested in talking to the hacker about working for them, and 'several computer programming companies' were also chasing him for his skills."
...so I'll be driving everywhere with my foot to the floor, hoping for a drive by 2010!
Oh great. I'm twenty and I'm comparitively useless and old. That's so depressing. :(
This is a great step forward for black hats everywhere! And a great step forward for aspiring CS students ... and a step back for mankind. *siigh*
at least it was 2 forward and one back...
Sure, sure, but did any of the papers also happen to mention something about a bj?
...why! This goes against everything my parents ever told me!
They're also behind their sheep. *ba-dum-tsh*
Oh...
um, oops...
I for one welcome...
Bah.
"...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can." ~ Mark Twain
That's the problem with being a hacker. You can get all kinds of infections into any system you want, but you can't get your perfectly everything-negative virgin cock in any girl's mouth.
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they let him go without a booting
As long as it's OVER 9000!!!
What they really should have done is force him to work for them. The logic for most crimes should be: commit a crime, be forced to work with police to prevent crime. The more they get, the easier it is to catch others, the more they get etc. Of course if he doesn't even have to do that, then I just hope he'll get murdered.
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Typical, they are a decade behind the rest of the world.
Yeah the "world" is so ahead isn't it. Poor Kiwis, why haven't they got all their troops in the middle east already, and a mortgage crisis, and incalculable foreign debt and nuclear power and massive prisons and... and when can I move there?
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Obviously he hacked the news sites to change the number.
So I guess Bill Gates is off the hook too then? Aspergers absolves all.
Asperger's. The magical word that makes everything you do OK.
So did he say to himself on the way to the interview, "I just love it when a plan comes together!"?
Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant. The population is growing.
You beat me to the punch. Most of these douchebags are intelligent, but they're not that intelligent. It's sort of a Slashdot trump card that so many like to use due to the large number of socially inept so-called geeks here. They have to be cool somehow, so instead of taking a shower and losing fifty pounds they develop a Spock-like affliction.
This kid is a bomb waiting to go off; he's already shown that his moral compass is screwed up. If he screws up again I hope they throw the book at him and then ruin the career(s) of the person/people who suggested hiring him.
The crown will plainly show the prisoner who now stands before you, was caught red handed 0wn1ng people, 0wn1ng people of an almost HUMAN nature.
This will not do.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
# /sbin/brain --start /sbin/brain --show-status
#
brain0: running
#
"Now, granted you would be stupid to give him the root password of your server"
He is the last guy on the planet that needs to ask for your root password.