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'Iceman' Gets 13 Years For 2nd Hacking Offense
Hugh Pickens writes "Computerworld reports that Max Ray Butler, who used the hacker pseudonym Iceman, has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers, the longest known sentence ever handed down for hacking charges. This isn't Butler's first time facing a federal hacking sentence. After a promising start as a security consultant who did volunteer work for the FBI, Butler was arrested for writing malicious software that installed a back-door program on computers — including some on federal government networks — that were susceptible to a security hole. Butler served an 18-month prison term for the crime and fell on hard times after his 2002 release. In desperation, he turned again to cybercrime and by the time of his arrest in September 2007, he had built the largest marketplace for stolen credit and debit card information in the world."
Looks like Iceman is being put on ice for 13 years. It's well-deserved, IMO.
12 Years, 11 months of the sentence for using the pseudonym Iceman.
Information wants to be free. They are trashing our rights! Trashing!!
But my outhouse is in my backyard!
If your penetrating backdoors then dont be surprised when your are sent to pound me in the ass prison to have the same done to you.
Well of course, if they were all just a little Building and Loan, then Old Man Potter wouldn't have stolen Uncle Billy's deposit. Let's go give Old Man Potter the Nobel Prize and kick Uncle Billy in the balls!
(Tune in next week when we explain why Oliver Twist was really the villain!)
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I think this one failed the Turing test.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.