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Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn
An anonymous reader writes "52-year-old Walter Powell wanted revenge when he was fired from his position as an IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse System Inc. So, he hacked into their systems — installing keyloggers to steal passwords. Then, when his CEO was giving a presentation to the board of directors he replaced the slides with pornographic images. Powell has now been given a 2 year suspended sentence, and 100 hours community service."
For no jail time, I think it was almost worth it. Too bad Terry Childs didn't get the same deal.
I wrote a script once that redirected traffic via a proxy to babblefish which translated it to English to Russian and than back to English again. :-)
It made all the emails from hotmail look like they written by a 6 year old. Unfortunately, security software started catching up with man in the middle attacks by the time I was about finished as this was technically a redirect :-( so I could never use it without antivirus software screaming today.
If the guy is old a really embarrasing thing to link is this video. FYI not worksafe or the faint of heart ... aka a shocker. ;-)
http://saveie6.com/
How did the presentation go?
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
This story reminds me of a friend who, 20 years ago, was the IT person for a small aerospace startup that ran a Macintosh network with a single dial-in. (He may even be reading this: hats off, Mr Jones!)
They fired him, unamicably, and failed to change the passwords on the dialup (among other mistakes not later abused). So he decided to get his revenge by dialing in and sending multiple copies of a word document to every printer in the company (501 copies, iirc, guaranteed to empty every paper tray). The document was a quote from the Blonde Bimbo Office Manager ("BBOM"), in 36-point Helvetica:
"I've been at the bottom, and I've been at the top. I don't care how much dick I have to suck, I'm not going to be at the bottom again." Signed, [BBOM]
I was still there when it happened. The best part was, the BBOM took a stack of these printouts to every person in the building, shrieking: "Did you do this? Did YOU do this??" Nobody know who did it, in fact I think few even suspected the dialup.*
Now those are some lulz.
[*I didn't know it was him until months later, after the company laid off 90% of its staff, including me. Its doors shut a year later.]
I can see the fnords!
When someone pulls a stunt like this, all they're doing is making it hard for everyone.
Loads of places that got rid of me folded soon after.
One burned to the ground, but I have a cast iron alibi for that night.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
why are six of the last 7 stories tagged with 'idiocracy'?
I blame it on Bitcoin. It rots the geek mind.
Tell me more about this?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Have gnu, will travel.
I lost my stapler in that fire.