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Former Student Gets Year In Prison For College President Election Fraud

Posted by Unknown on from the of-all-the-elections-to-steal dept.

Gunkerty Jeb writes, quoting Threatpost: "A former Cal State San Marcos student was sentenced to a year in prison this week for election tampering by using keystroke loggers to grab student credentials and then vote for himself. Matthew Weaver, 22, of Huntington Beach, Calif., stole almost 750 students' identities to try and become president of the San Diego County college's student government. His plan went awry when the school's computer technicians noticed an anomaly in activity and caught Weaver with keystroke loggers as he sat in front of the suspicious computer."

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  1. This guy has got a bright future ahead of him by Apharmd · · Score: 5, Funny

    in national politics. But who will get him, the Dems or the Republicans?

  2. Job Offer by overlook77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    He did receive a job offer from the NSA afterwards however.

    1. Re:Job Offer by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      The ones that cough are diseased.

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    2. Re:Job Offer by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know why, he was sloppy. Well, I guess they could train him in the details but his heart was in the right place.

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    3. Re:Job Offer by lister+king+of+smeg · · Score: 3, Funny

      yeah he should of set up a virtual server and had the key logger report to it then ssh'ed into it from a out of country proxy to get the credentials then cheat. oh look three black suv's pulled up and i hear a helicopter got to go.

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  3. Re:Prison by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's probably going to prison for accessing the students accounts, not for the election fraud itself.

    That's why you don't do this, kids. You start with logging other people's strokes and you end up stroking other people's logs.

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