Hacker Posts His Crime On YouTube, Lands In Jail

wiredmikey writes "A former contract security guard who admitted hacking into a hospital's computer systems (where he worked), was sentenced to 110 months in Federal prison. Why did he do it? He admits that he intended to use the bots and the compromised computers to launch DDoS attacks on the websites of rival hacker groups. The FBI says he posted video of himself hacking into the hospital computers on YouTube — While the theme of 'Mission Impossible' played, he described his hack, step by step, including the insertion of a CD containing the OphCrack program, which allowed him to bypass all security. The FBI found the CD containing the OphCrack program in McGraw's house and found the source code for the bot on his laptop."

Comments

Re:110 Months

[YodasEvilTwin]

Hospital administrators who don't properly secure and audit their computer system deserve to be shot.

Re:Security researchers or confidential informants

[SuperKendall]

That depends on whose home it is. If it's a rich assholes home, probably not

You do realize that this means you, too, are an asshole, and that someone even lower on the moral chain than yourself will watch someone break into your house and do nothing for the same reason?

The chain of violence only stops when people like you stop demonizing based on external factors.

Re:Security researchers or confidential informants

[ElectricTurtle]

Exactly. As Cullen Hightower said: "There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else."

I always ask people, at what magical number does 'theft' become 'economic justice'?

Re:You are ridiculous

[DurendalMac]

Accidentally hitting someone with a car and accidentally hitting someone with a car after you've swilled half a bottle of Gold Schlager would be treated differently. Accidents happen. Deliberately fucking with hospital systems in a way that you KNOW could cause damages and even get someone killed is not an accident.

Should read: Dumbass posts his crime on Youtoob...

[ehintz]

There. I fixed it for you.

Re:Security researchers or confidential informants

[ElectricTurtle]

This is the worst kind of thinking. 'The poor don't get justice so I'll make sure the rich don't get it either! Then we'll all be equal!' Equally fucked. Such an great thing to which to aspire. Equality is not the sacred thing you seem to think it is. To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, it is better to have a higher standard of living for the majority in a society with a high disparity than it is to have a lower standard of living for the majority in a society of greater equality.