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French Hacker Arrested After Bragging On TV
Orome1 writes "A French hacker has effectually tied a noose around his own neck when he bragged about hacking into the systems of a big government contractor on national TV. He participated in a television program called Further investigation, and he said — and demonstrated — that he has gained access to computers belonging to the French Army and Thales Group, a French company that provides information systems and services for the aerospace, defense, and security markets. He was arrested 6 days after the program was aired. The police discovered on his computer a great number of compromised credit card and bank account data."
*Cleverest* hacker in the world!
...but please don't arrest me!
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soon as you get away with it enough you get complacent and let your guard down, thinking you are better than other criminals
This is the second article about evolution in four hours!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
we'd have a real problem. Actually I suppose we do. He probably represents 0.01% of the 'criminal community'. Only the dumbasses and patsies get caught.
Eh, C'est la vie
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
Hearing this story reminds of a daily bit a local morning radio talk show did, "The Idiot of the Day" but i think he wins "Idiot of the decade"
It seems unrelated - he was treated as an anonymous source by the television programme, according to TFA. I can't see how the french police could have gotten anything out of that. They probably followed the money trail somehow since he was using stolen credit card data. And good riddance too, anyone using stolen credit cards is no better than a pickpocket no matter how they go about it.
Emotions! In your brain!
That pesky carpal tunnel won't help when he's trying to hold onto the soap
It's like the mind going AWOL, it's there somewhere
Obligatory comment on /. but do you really think the police tracked him down in only 6 days? He was probably already being investigated, if a reporter could get in touch with him, investigators could probably do the same, under cover.
soon as you get away with it enough you get complacent and let your guard down, thinking you are better than other criminals
Being a loud mouth idiot does not happen to everyone. Being a criminal does not happen to everyone.
This guy was on the wrong TV show. He should have been on "World's Dumbest Criminals"
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His bragging was obviously not intended to be a factual statement.
Surprisingly, a good rule of thumb for any criminal is to stay clear of any cardinal sin.
Lust - don't let your dick make any decisions for you
Greed - know when to stop
Sloth - go the extra mile or else it might bite you
Wrath - like lust, an emotion that can negatively influence your judgment
Pride - the best criminal and the perfect crime is the one nobody knows about, and overconfidence leads to errors.
Gluttony - excessive consumption raises suspicions
Envy - don't try to outdo someone else. He is known for a reason.
Dude, videotaping this crime spree was the best idea we ever had!
The use of Hacker word is far-fetched on this case. Away from the conspiracy's drama done by the journalist for this show, and decrypting the reality of the situation for this guy, what we have ? Just a low-budget burglar, wanting to lather on TV.
Stunning police work took 6 days to arrest him...
Well they probably spent the first 5 days assuming he was playing a joke on the TV network or the network was playing a joke on the viewers. From the article:
""Carl" was arrested on April 7 in Paris, 6 days after the program was aired."
So April 1 was the broadcast date? Do the French "celebrate" April Fools day?
France is particularly draconian about encryption. I'm not sure what their exact legal situation is.. in the UK you can be jailed for not giving up your encryption keys on demand, so you have to weigh up the sentence for that versus what you'd get for the crimes they'd convict you for if you did.
It appears that anything above 40-bit keys is illegal in France unless you use key escrow.
His downfall was actually a mistake by the production team.
Before emission they were masking his face and changing his voice, but during one sot where they filmed his screen while he ran a file browser on his PC, there was a directory name visible where information about his real name or "handle" could be seen.
This was quickly fixed in the version that was put on the internet but it was too late, the companies he bragged about having hacked filed a suit and the police came storming through his door and confiscated all hit stuff.
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
a) Dont be criminal
b) if you are, dont believe that some hacking of army systems will give you positive karma
c) If you nevertheless insist in that you have the right to do everything based on your own laws, then dont talk about that in television
There is a huge difference between smart and wise.
There is a huge difference between smart and good.
There is a very small difference between wise and good.
Our society values smart.
P.S. Considering that this is an article about France, I'd say our American society, but a lot of our American values came from France, too. Very few participants in the French Revolution, for example, were wise. Many (such as Dr. Guillotine) were smart. Nope -- our entire society values smart. Not very wise, if you ask me.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
It dates back a lot further than that. It goes back to at least WW2.
Xavier Rabourdin for president 2012
Stupid git! The title says it all. The quote is from Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.
Be Obscure Clearly
There are visual errors in time as well as in space.
He fell victim to social engineering.
This attack is called 'Ego Entrapment', where the victim's ego causes his head to swell beyond the coverage supplied by his tin foil hat, allowing exposure not sufficiently protected by his prerequisite paranoia.
And what else does Thales build?
Pitot probes for Airbus A330, a la Air France Flight 447.
Should be No Great Trick to hack into their systems...
Self Destruct Button - don't have one that blows up your entire lair
Mod parent up ;)
A well analysed phenomenon. Check
http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature/why-people-are-irrational-kurt-kleiner/
for example
Its far more likely that someone gave him access after THEY broke in, or he simply got in via some scripted toolkit he downloaded from someone else.
$100 says he actually doesn't know how to get into anything, he road on someone elses coat tails.
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In France our firewall is Open Office. It is teh best.
http://www.suite101.com/content/the-april-fish-a13685
You might remember that from this movie.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Are you the same guy who was spewing the same completely wrong crap in the thread the other day?
Sibling has it right. Those jokes predate your birth, and probably your parents'.
Shit, I saw Newkirk make one in an episode of Hogan's Heroes last night.
Bragging is not a crime.
Car numbers say nothing. He found them on the net.
So who did the actual stealing?
No proof...
And this is why rest of the world sees US as arrogant, self important smugs. Only arabs' israeli bashing comes close when you talk about people insulting foreigners on the internets. Grow up.
for those who don't get the joke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4LofqPCQew
And this is why rest of the world sees US as arrogant, self important smugs.
Ah, I see now. The world sees the US as arrogant because the world can't tell the difference between the US and Canada, and is too lazy to read slashdot sigs. Neat.
The young love to brag on media. TV, Blog's, Facebook the list goes on. The problem is we are now well trained monkeys to record everything we do.
Funny how when its something wrong there are surprised there in trouble.
I hate to see what young people eagerly submit themselves too in 20 years.