Krebs Hacker Unmasked, Hit Ars and Wired's Honan

altjira writes "Brian Krebs, hot on the tail of the hacker who DDOS his site and SWATted his home, followed up on a tip, found the dox, called and then outed his hacker. Turns out it may have been the same guy who hit Wired's Mat Honan and Ars Technica." The attacker is ... a 20 year old guy who apparently has too much time on his hands, and was surprisingly careless with his personal information for someone exploiting the personal information of others.

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SWATting

[Anonymous Coward]

Given the propensity of the American police responding to that sort of call to shoot first and possibly get round to asking questions a bit later on, SWATting somebody should be charged as attempted murder

Re:SWATting

[houghi]

If your intend was to get the other person punched then you should be charged AS WELL. One does not exclude the other.

Re:SWATting

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

I was on a jury that convicted a man of reckless homicide after a street race ended up in a horrible crash.

So yeah if someone had been shot then a similar charge should apply.

Re:SWATting

[Anonymous Coward]

While I agree it should be a crime of some sort, the person pulling the trigger should be the one charged with murder.

You're right. If, say, the person being SWAT'ed pulls a gun in self defense, because all he knows is his house is being invaded, and a police officer sees it and fires, as they are trained to do when seeing a lethal threat, that is TOTALLY murder.

More accurately, I think SWATing somebody should be negligent homicide if somebody dies, reckless endangerment if (as usually happens) nobody is hurt.

Most Crimes Are Solved

[hduff]

Most crimes are solved because the criminal is careless or stupid or both.

Re:Most Crimes Are Solved

[SirGarlon]

I considered crime as a career option when I was young, and decided that it was for losers. Concealing repeated crime would require so much hard work and attention to detail, that anyone qualified to do it is also qualified for a rather high-paying job.

If you think about it, the saying "crime doesn't pay" is just another way of saying the labor market works.

Young punks, too stupid in most ways that matter

[roman_mir]

This story is still in progress, but it's clear that this "Phobia" punk is intelligent enough in ways that really don't matter much and too stupid in ways that actually do matter. His father should have figured out what the son was doing a while ago, as his son is in the crime scene, stealing or helping to steal and use credit cards, SSNs, etc., breaking into private people's accounts and messing with them, paying for DDOS attacks against websites and sending SWAT teams to people's homes, so that somebody could actually get shot. This is all a punk move, what this idiot needs is about 3 years of labour camp, so that he'd at least repay some of the damage and 10 minutes of flogging on monthly basis, so that what could not be peacefully inserted into his brain would be painfully inserted into his back.

Re:Young punks, too stupid in most ways that matte

[roman_mir]

The dumbest thing was to talk but also to involve cops with the SWAT thing. If he just kept to online stealing and harassment this wouldn't be as bad as the SWAT thing, now the cops have a personal issue as well with him. The way he just blurted everything out showed how really 'smart' he is.