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Man Gets 10 Years For VoIP Hacking

Posted by timothy on from the just-think-what-that-is-in-minutes dept.

angry tapir writes "A US court has sentenced a Venezuelan man to 10 years in prison for stealing and then reselling more than 10 million minutes of Internet phone service. Edwin Pena, 27, was convicted in February of masterminding a scheme to hack into more than 15 telecommunications companies and then reroute calls to their networks at no charge. He must also pay more than US$1 million in restitution, and will be deported once his sentence is served."

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  1. Free calls by fvandrog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Free calls for all US prisoners shortly.

    1. Re:Free calls by thynk · · Score: 3, Funny

      and if those were txt messages, it would hold my teen daughter over through at least 6 months.

      --

      Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
    2. Re:Free calls by Wansu · · Score: 2, Funny

      More bars in more places ...

      --
      Wansu, th' chinese sailor
  2. Stupid criminal... by ProdigyPuNk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pena is the first person to be charged by U.S. authorities with VoIP hacking, but he almost avoided prosecution. He skipped bail after his arrest, and was only captured after his Mexican girlfriend turned him in in early 2009.

    I've said it before and I'll say it again. NEVER, EVER let your girlfriend know what is going on if you are commiting crimes/running from the law/etc. It gets you in trouble every time.

    1. Re:Stupid criminal... by delinear · · Score: 5, Funny

      I've said it before and I'll say it again. NEVER, EVER let your girlfriend know what is going on. It gets you in trouble every time.

      FTFY

    2. Re:Stupid criminal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Most slashdotters won't ever be in that situation. (They never commit any crimes)

    3. Re:Stupid criminal... by Vanderhoth · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sure compromise is good but what difference does it make whether I take the trash out "RIGHT NOW honey!" or if I wait until tomorrow morning as I'm headed-out to work?

      The difference is if I take it out "Right Now honey!", she can clean up the mess the raccoons, stray dogs and crows make of it over night.

      That gets me out of having to take it out until the next morning.

      Normally my wife and I don't argue about stuff, but when she becomes overly insistent something needs to be done right away, or in a very specific way, I'll either give her the yes dear and do it my way anyway or I'll do it her way and make her deal with the consequences. Sometimes she's right and I'm wrong or she's just lucky, but she's pretty well learned if she's going to argue with me instead of doing something herself she had better have a logical argument for it. Like wise, I've learned most of the time it's not worth arguing with her.

      I still wouldn't tell her if I was on the run. She'd probably turn me in for not taking the trash out when she told me to.

  3. sounds fair by bsDaemon · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's only like ~30 seconds in jail for each minute of phone service he stole. At least they didn't sentence him to full price.

  4. Re:What's wrong with that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And all of that is below file sharing copyrighted material. $1 million is restitution? That's barely 1 copyrighted song.

  5. Re:What's wrong with that? by Jurily · · Score: 2, Funny

    $1 million is restitution? That's barely 1 copyrighted song.

    Funny because it's sad.