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Teen Hacks US Intelligence Chief's Personal Accounts (vice.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the poking-the-bear dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has now joined the CIA's John Brennan in having his personal online accounts hacked. A teenage hacker known as 'Cracka' has claimed responsibility for the hack, reporting that he had infiltrated Clapper's home telephone, online accounts and his personal email, as well as his wife's Yahoo account. Cracka had managed to change the settings on Clapper's Verizon Fios account so that any calls to his home number were redirected to the Free Palestine Movement group in California.

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  1. On the one hand ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On one hand, kudos for being ballsy and doing this.

    On the other hand, if you go messing around with the Director of National Intelligence ... well, you should expect some pretty heavy consequences.

    And I'm sure they'll find all sorts of trumped up charges to make your life miserable.

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    1. Re:On the one hand ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ts ts, slashdotters and their totalitarian fantasies...

    2. Re: On the one hand ... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "Cracka" is a cracker not a hacker. Hackers do not engage in malicious activity but explore systems to learn about them.

      BULLSHIT!

      You kids who have retroactively decided to re-define hacker and cracker are so full of shit it isn't funny.

      Historically there is no such distinction, and "hacker" was the only word for about three decades or so. A hacker may or may not have done anything malicious. Cracker is a word which came along much later. In fact, it came along in the late 90s and suddenly people started claiming there was a semantic distinction.

      For anybody who was around before that, there simply is no distinction, and claiming it has always been so is a lie.

      "l337 h4x0rs" were who hacked your system, no matter if they just looked around, or burned it to the ground.

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