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Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use
Meshach writes "The FBI has caught the student who called in a bomb threat at Harvard University on December 16. The student used a temporary anonymous email account routed through Tor, but the FBI was able to trace it (PDF) because it originated from the Harvard wireless network. He could face as long as five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine if convicted. He made the threat to get out of an exam."
Whenever you peel back the layers of an onion, someone is bound to cry.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
And therefore they'll put him in rehab rather than prison.
Unless he's not affluent enough for his affluenza to be strong enough to cover this crime, after all, he called in a bomb threat, rather than killed four people in a drunk-driving incident.
He made the threat to get out of an exam.
he won't have to worry about that any more
In fact, NSA broke TOR and wrote this nice story so that police looks good.
Was the guy ever catched ? Nope.
Did this happen during an English class?
And in lesson three, we'll learn the age old trick of going down to the local busy Starbucks with a fresh install of *OS and then use the Tor. This might extend the time it takes the feds to knock on your door to over 24 hours!
What other people think of me is none of my business
Except he didn't actually send the bomb threat! He only confessed to that lesser crime because what he was REALLY doing was seeding a pirated release of Gravity, and he knew if the police continued their investigation they might find out and he'd end up in jail for 10 years and have to pay $3 million in fines.
If you weren't ready to make that post, you could've called in a bomb threat.
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