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Photobucket Hackers Nabbed, Face Serious Charges From US Authorities
The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement released Friday that two men, Brandon Bourret, and Athanasios Andrianakis, of Colorado Springs, Colorado
and Sunnyvale, California, respectively, were arrested for their sale of software designed to breach the security of photo-sharing site Photobucket.com; their "Photofucket" app, says the linked Register report, was used "to plunder Photobucket's users' private and password-protected information, images and videos, it has been alleged ... The charge sheet against Bourret and Andrianakis details one count of conspiracy and one count of computer fraud, aid and abet – both of which carry a maximum prison sentence of five years and a fine of up to $250,000.
In addition, the men stand accused of two counts of access device fraud, which carries a higher prison sentence of up to 10 years and a fine of up to a quarter of a million dollars, per count." The indictment, filed in Federal District Court in Colorado, is far easier to read than many.
In the eyes of the courts. They're fucked.
Not really, system has been gamed, it is 'fixed'. It has a lot to do with how much money they made and how much they are willing to give up to maintain freedom. This is where you will notice justice went out the window a long time ago, justice is bought/sold/traded on a daily basis.
Then I guess I'm a criminal too. My job is to find flaws in security and show how to exploit them. Of course this entails creating tools that allow me to demonstrate it.
Great. Is the ITSEC industry supposed to come alphabetically, by size or by importance? We don't want to cause a traffic jam at the jail gates.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.