Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry

An anonymous reader writes: One of the most notorious hackers around has decided to dox himself after getting tired of hacking companies and failing to find a legitimate job in the infosec community. Razvan Eugen Gheorghe, 24, is one of the early LulzSec members and leader of Team GhostShell. He is now hoping to get arrested so that he could negotiate a plea deal and become a white hat hacker with a company or state agency somewhere. For the past 4 years, the hacker was literally 2km away from Romania's crime investigation unit, a 10-minute ride away.

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Are there no roads in Romania?

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> 2km away from Romania's crime investigation unit, a 10-minute ride

I can run 2km in 10 minutes. Are we talking a rickshaw ride or are there really no roads out there?

Re:Are there no roads in Romania?

[pushing-robot]

In most big cities it's faster to walk 2km than drive, and Bucharest is particularly bad:

http://www.romania-insider.com...

Re:Are there no roads in Romania?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, you have to walk across the parking lot to the car, use the non-through roads to get to the highway, navigate a mile or two of slow traffic, take the correct exit, and when you're parked, walk across the parking lot to the police station, unless it's drive-in. I'd say 10 minutes is an optimistic estimate. Don't forget that this is an American site: People need an estimate of the time it takes to drive 2km because they measure distances in multiples of body parts, and walking is something that you do to get to/from a car. You just made them wonder if you include changing into running clothes in the ten minutes or not. Running is something that is strictly done to get from point A to point A, which is the place where you park your SUV (the S in SUV stands for sport, so this is an adequate use of a truck).

I hope they consulted a lawyer first.

[allaunjsilverfox2]

I mean, I can understand wanting to come in from the cold and all. But this seems ill thought out, all and all. From what little I know about Romania, it doesn't seem like a good idea to turn yourself over to the authorities with the corruption scandals going on. They would be more likely to give you a harsher sentence to prove that their precinct is "clean". But, like I said, I'm not very well versed in the country or its laws.

Re:Nope. No way. No chance.

[jtayon]

What scares me is that given it is harder to recruit black hats and they have access to less qualified work force they do a pretty good job at defeating top notch major in CS.

Our HR recruitment process are clearly recruiting expansive work force, but not a good one.

I feel more and more uncomfortable with the actual lack of practical knowledge of dev/sysadmins/architects that comes out of schools to directly push stuff in production that are shit.

25 years I do this job, 25 years I know how to avoid SQL injections, 25 years I get fired for asking we remove these from our code base, as much as obsolete ciphers, shell injection, cookie theft, mechanism that result in amplification of DOS ...

Well, if computer industry want to lose the trust of their customers by not hiring competent workers, they began by losing mine.

And I do encourage people actively to back all their valuable they can from internet nowadays. This industry is irresponsible.

Re:Nope. No way. No chance.

[spacepimp]

Kevin Mitnick called; he said you are talking out of your ass.

Easier Job Choice: Cybercrime?

[Noble713]

What does it say about the state of the Eastern-European cybercrime industry if a hacker would rather transition to a White Hat instead of "lat moving" into full-on cybercrime? Is it not financially viable, even for a guy with his skill level? Is it too risky due to violence from competitors (cybercrime mafias are still *MAFIAS*)?

I think the opportunity costs of his options are more interesting than him doxing himself.

*turns himself in

[fph il quozientatore]

s/doxes/turns himself in.

Can we please stop using random neologisms-du-jour and get back to real language?