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Feds: Sailor Hacked Navy Network While Aboard Nuclear Aircraft Carrier
ClownP (1315157) writes in with this story about a hacker who did some of his work while aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier. "
A former sailor assigned to a US nuclear aircraft carrier and another man have been charged with hacking the computer systems of 30 public and private organizations, including the US Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, AT&T, and Harvard University.
Nicholas Paul Knight, 27, of Chantilly, VA, and Daniel Trenton Krueger, 20, of Salem, IL, were members of a crew that hacked protected computers as part of a scheme to steal personal identities and obstruct justice, according to a criminal complaint unsealed earlier this week in a US District Court in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The gang, which went by the name Team Digi7al, allegedly took to Twitter to boast of the intrusions and publicly disclose sensitive data that was taken. The hacking spree lasted from April 2012 to June 2013, prosecutors said."
“Essentially I am in trouble for posting all of the stuff on Twitter,”
You're in trouble for bragging about it. It's amazing how many criminals get caught because they can't keep their mouth shut. To me that seems like Crime 101. The first rule of black hat hacking is you don't talk about black hat hacking.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Let's see how many times we can use this word in the headline and summary to get people all riled up.
Sensationalism. Propaganda. We'll be sure to think of the children as ew teach the tairists a lesson.
"...aboard a NUCLEAR aircraft carrier..."
Because the US also has a bunch of coal-fired carriers and a couple of old-fashioned pedal-powered ones?
HACKED network... while ABOARD
So... he accessed other networks. While he was working or when he had a rack pass and time to kill?
Way to sensationalize.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
See how at least some of them did while in the Navy and hacked the Navy?
Execute all spies by hanging them by the neck until dead. Problem solved.
When civil war comes, swine like you will be good practice targets.
What's the consensus on these guys? Are we supposed to hold them in derision for their acts, look down on them for their stupidity, or champion as freedom-fighting bastions of truth and light (aka "Snowden-ize" them)? I have a hard time figuring out what we're all supposed to believe on these things.
Way to sensationalize.
In the United States, prosecutors have the job of sensationalizing in order to get a conviction and longer sentences. They are spinning a story they design out of the facts, so they pick the facts which make someone seem as guilty as possible and of as big a crime as possible.
The defense attorney's job is to whittle that down. The jury has the job of guessing the truth from two competing false narratives (the prosecution and the defense). Only the judge can ask witnesses questions impartially, and he or she generally doesn't do that a lot.
Sensationalism. Propaganda. We'll be sure to think of the children as ew teach the tairists a lesson.
Think about it.
Knight was an active duty enlisted member of the Navy assigned to the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. He worked as a systems administrator in the carrier's nuclear reactor department. He is accused of conducting some of his unlawful hacking while aboard.
Feds: Sailor hacked Navy network while aboard nuclear aircraft carrier
That cuts a little too close to the bone.
It gets better:
''Essentially I am in trouble for posting all of the stuff on Twitter,''Knight told ABC News by email in his first interview. ''Although a lot of people are saying I was the leader of some crime organizations that was out to get people which wasn't true. Just a group of people that were dumb and did dumb things.''
In criminal information filed Monday, prosecutors allege that while Knight served in the Navy as a systems administrator in the nuclear reactor department of the USS Harry S. Truman, he was also leading a double life as a self-proclaimed ''nuclear black hat'' and the leader of a hacking group called Team Digi7al that stole or attempted to steal confidential or private information and post it online.
After the attacks, the group then bragged about their accomplishments on Twitter, with Knight acting as the main ''publicist,'' according to the Department of Justice.
The court filing noted that three alleged members of the group were minors when they joined.
Prosecutor Ryan Souders, who is involved in the case, told ABC News that generally when a suspect is charged in a criminal information filing, rather than an indictment, that means the defense has indicated they will not contest the charges.
Alleged Navy Hacker Says His Group Just 'Did Dumb Things'
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Really, they were hacking on the aircraft carrier? Hacking what? Would be funny if a system failed so catastrophically they had to have sailors on board actually patch and recompile on the spot, and even if they were just innocently hacking away at a recalcitrant build-script for their photomanager or something it would still be cool, right?
At least that was what I thought when I read the headline. Imagine my surprise to find out this is actually a story about crime-on-the-internet and has othing to do with hacking whatsoever.
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