Japanese Police Offers First-Ever Reward For Wanted Hacker

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 13, 2012 @05:28PM from the east-meets-wild-west dept.

alphadogg writes "Japanese police are looking for an individual who can code in C#, uses a 'Syberian Post Office' to make anonymous posts online, and knows how to surf the web without leaving any digital tracks — and they're willing to pay. It is the first time that Japan's National Police Agency has offered a monetary reward for a wanted hacker, or put so much technical detail into one of its wanted postings. The NPA will pay up to $36,000, the maximum allowed under its reward system. The case is an embarrassing one for the police, in which earlier this year 4 individuals were wrongly arrested after their PCs were hacked and used to post messages on public bulletin boards. The messages included warnings of plans for mass killings at an elementary school posted to a city website."

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Dude ... Hold Up ! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 17:38 · Score: 0, Troll

The NPA has no one who can code (i.e. read, write, understand) C#, use Syberian Post Office in any capacity, surf the web without leaving any 'digital tracks'.
I mean, really !
This is completely bogus ... not evan a WTF moment.
The original poster need some serious language training.
XD