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New Jersey Mayor and Son Arrested For Nuking Recall Website
phaedrus5001 writes "The mayor of West New York, New Jersey was arrested by the FBI after he and his son illegally took down a website that was calling for the recall of mayor Felix Roque (the site is currently down).
From the article: 'According to the account of FBI Special Agent Ignace Ertilus, Felix and Joseph Roque took a keen interest in the recall site as early as February. In an attempt to learn the identity of the person behind the site, the younger Roque set up an e-mail account under a fictitious name and contacted an address listed on the website. He offered some "very good leads" if the person would agree to meet him. When the requests were repeatedly rebuffed, Joseph Rogue allegedly tried another route. He pointed his browser to Google and typed the search strings "hacking a Go Daddy Site," "recallroque log-in," and "html hacking tutorial."'"
Using Google for criminal enterprises is bad news bears.
The kid should have searched "Tor" while he was at it. That would have kept the FBI occupied for a few more weeks.
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I'm not saying what he did wasn't wrong. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to be charged with something.
But, doesn't it seem odd that for this relativity minor case that the FBI can get your whole search history from google?
He's going to hack into our div tags!
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If they were "nuking" Al Qaeda websites, maybe they would not get in trouble.
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Googling for "recallroque log-in" is just pure genius. Why hack if google will just point you straight to the credentials you need!
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Try searching for, "This document is confidential" on Google. You would be surprised by what sort of things turn up.
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" three counts of intentionally accessing computers without authorization or intentionally causing damage to a protected computer"
You'd think the threats and other stuff would kick on a few other charges than those. ianal but I bet even I could find at least a half dozen additional things to nail them with.
I wonder if they'll let him keep his job. (Politics are bizarre.)
Since "GOP", "republican", "right-wing", or "conservative" wasn't prominently featured in the headline or first paragraph, it was obvious what his party afiliation was. Party affiliation is most often ommitted by the left, for the left. Although a comment listed him as an "independent conservative democrat", which covers most of the bases I suppose.
Suppression of free political speech and intimidation by an elected official is a "minor case"? If so, it shouldn't be.
That said, I have to wonder if this wasn't a corruption investigation by the FBI in the first place, though you'd think if it was, they'd jump at the opportunity to "meet".
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
Great. Now every website hacking attempt would be called "going rogue". All "roguelike" discussions will be censored and prosecuted. And God help you if you are found in possession of a certain amulet...
> Nuking from orbit, isn't that a bit extreme?
It's the only way to be sure.
-- IANAL, this isn't legal advice, and definitely isn't legal advice for you. Also, Squee!
You can ask google to not save your searches.
You can recover searches from a computer if you have physical access to the computer as long as the person didn't do any wipes.
At no point in the story does it say where the information about searches was recovered from. So yes, it is possible that the authorities contacted google and the got the information, but more likely they just got it off the computer.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
the web site won't be needed anymore.... that town will get their new mayor one way or another (recall or resignation)
the best part about this story though is that this idiot got into office on a recall election that ousted the town's previous mayor.
This article indicates that Roque the Younger called "Victim 1" to 'say that the page had been taken down by “high government officials and that everyone would pay for getting involved against Mayor Roque.” '
Now that is poor hacking skills!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76723.html
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They messed up the link when it was first posted. It's fixed now.
Geez... slashdot's editors screw up once in 15 years and you're all over it. Cut them some slack. Do you expect them to get the summary perfect every time?
I bet the how to hack go daddy left out the important steps. Don't use a computer you normally use. Don't use your Home IP or any IP that can be traced to you. Go out the the middle of nowhere suburbia find an Open WiFi, and never go back there after you're done. And use as many proxies between you and them as you can. That's what makes hacking an art. Any script kiddy can run a Wipe Out a Go Daddy web site script, but can they do that and not get caught.
Not only will Google allow you to not have your searches saved. Google will actually show you all of the search info they have on you and allow you to individually delete things you want gone.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
It's traditional to use the PC on your dickweed boss or cow-orker's desk.
My boss and colleagues are excellent, so I would have to use the head of HR's computer.
Luckily there's a building master key in the computer room's DR box.
Very Funny.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Which then points to a mistake by MSNBC. Fox is crap. But really, they screw up badly enough that ginning up fake conspiracies isn't really necessary.
I mean, come on, the god damned world economy is on fire and you waste our fucking time giving credibility to this shit?
Wow, that must be in the top three most awesome real person names ever.
I'd buy the comics based on the name alone!
I bet he fights arcane AIs with nothing but his trusty cyberspace deck and deep knowledge of neurolinguistics.
A negative story about politician doesn't provide political affiliation of said politician?
It's time to play the classic game of: Name that Party.
Drink that Kool Aid chief, then educate yourself about Cory Booker, the man who denounced Obama's perpetuation of the drug war.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/cory-booker-drug-war_n_1541082.html
http://news.yahoo.com/cory-booker-walks-back-criticism-obama-campaign-bain-105420351--abc-news-politics.html
Seriously though, the fact that you ran off about this subject literally days after such a high profile refutation of your claim speaks to how grossly uninformed you are.
I've yet to meet an HR drone that could actually use their PC.
Checked GoDaddy whois, and the domain was registered using their Domains by Proxy service to hide the registrant. This seems to imply that Domains By Proxy was hacked / socially engineered in order to compromise the account. Worse, it appears that this was accomplished by someone with little to no computer or hacking experience.
The article does not go into detail about how the hack was actually accomplished, other than mentioning it was via a reset email. I am curious what this actually means for the security of domain names registered on GoDaddy using Domains By Proxy. Are they truly that easy to hack?
I tend to register all of my domains using the proxy service simply to avoid spam in my inbox.
It's not in the story, so why would it be in the teaser of the story?
Oh wait, is logic and reason messing up your little brain?
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I know this one, it's the party you don't vote for. Race, religion and sexual orientation are also missing. How can we possibly judge this guys actions if Rupert won't tell us who he is? /sarcasam
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http://www.scribd.com/dahorsey/d/94673089-Felix-Roque-Complaint
Evidence of the Google searches probably came from browser history on the seized laptop. According to item 58 of the complaint:
"On or about March 22, 2012, law enforcement personnel searched Joseph Roque's East Meadow residence for evidence of criminal activity targeting Victim 1 and the Recall Website. There, they seized the Joseph iPhone and a laptop computer, both of which evidenced Mayor Roque's and defendant Joseph Roque's acts against the Recall Website, Victim 1's Facebook Account, and the West New York News Account."
I looked him up expecting to see he was an R and was quite surprised
That doesn't make any sense.
If you look over the last few years, consistently it's been Democrats doing things like stuffing freezers full of cash, sexting women inappropriately, sending guns to Mexican drug lords.
It's been liberal Occupy protestors pillaging SF, setting fire to Oakland, pooping on cars.
So when you hear about politicians caught in some illegal act, recent history teaches us it's really far likely to be Democrats, who for years now have shown they believe themselves to be above the law - because after all they are there to help you, and if laws get in the way of control over you well then guess which has to go?
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I wonder where they came from? It's not like they came from our schools, our churches, our towns, or anything like that. I think they're alien invaders. I'm working on how they use mind control techniques to get good, honest, logical people like us to vote for them.
It's really not hard at all. Here, have a look at some of the usual techniques.
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It would not surprise me if these individuals are Cuban.
That area of New Jersey, the Union City, NJ, and the West New York, NJ zone are home to the second largest community of Cubans-(Americans) in the USA. Second only in numbers to Miami, FL. Union City. Senator Robert "Bob" Menendez, Cuban-American, is from Union City.
Being Cuban is no sin, but I do get the feeling that some of these pendejos think they are still back in Cuba by their actions.
And the word which you added "lence" to is also spelled "survey", which is the word for those annoying things people ask you to do when you're trying to eat dinner. HTH
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I just had to check what google gives me with "HTML hacking tutorial".
Yet again proving the rule that any post correcting spelling will itself contain a spelling error. At least the Hamming distance on my version was shorter :)
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Only because Cheney is deified, like Clinton with the Democrats. If Bush came out in support of gay marriage it'd be another story.
From TFA, we're to believe all he did was somehow get GoDaddy to reset the e-mail address on an account, log-in and kill the DNS. This sounds more like an issue with GoDaddy than it does with unlawful access of a computer resource. At best, he impersonated someone? And honestly, the only reason this is on /. or in the news is because he's a public figure. This is hardly something I'd be impressed with even if it were done by an 8 year old child. This isn't hacking, it's just a shining example of why you should avoid GoDaddy at all costs.