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Yahoo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cashing-in-on-your-crimes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Eight years ago Mafiaboy (Michael Calce) knocked Yahoo offline. Today he he works as a legitimate security consultant and has just published a book documenting his criminal career and offering advice on how people can protect themselves from people like him on the Internet."

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  1. WARNING! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bought this book, but it intentionally contained too many pages and overflowed my bookcase. It fell off the end, and gave my cat a fatal error. While I was in the back garden burying Muffins, he sneaked into my house and stole all my stuff!

    1. Re:WARNING! by YttriumOxide · · Score: 5, Funny

      I bought this book, but it intentionally contained too many pages and overflowed my bookcase. It fell off the end, and gave my cat a fatal error. While I was in the back garden burying Muffins, he sneaked into my house and stole all my stuff!

      It took me three readings of that to parse that "Muffins" was the name of your cat. My first impression of your post was a lot more surreal.

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  2. Re:But i thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably because Canada is not part of the US yet?

  3. Words of Wisdom from a Script Kiddie by tecopa03 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh lord.

    Chapter two, "I installed the win32 exe called 'zombie', next I clicked on the Dee DOS button and took out CNN"

  4. Re:7 years ago two planes flew into the Twin Tower by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every time I fly, I am reminded just how much we lost in the years following that day.

  5. Re:7 years ago two planes flew into the Twin Tower by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 5, Funny

    I belive its called Giuliani's rule

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    IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
  6. Re:But i thought... by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell, I'm 93 and I still have gaps of judgement.

    Oh wait, those are gaps of memory.

    Get off my lawn!

  7. Re:But i thought... by gary_7vn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is the loophole. In Canada a young offender's record is expunged after a period of time, after which they are allowed exactly the same rights and privileges as any other Canadian. This protects them from the self-righteous, who would seek to punish them - forever. "...the bill would apply only to accused persons "convicted" of the offence, thus excluding from its reach offenders who were found "not criminally responsible" by reason of a mental disorder or who were "found guilty" as young offenders, or who were granted an absolute or conditional discharge under section 730 of the Criminal Code."