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Man Threatened Company With Cyber Attack To Fire Employee and Hire Him Instead (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A North Carolina judge sentenced a Washington man this week to 37 months in prison for threatening a company with attacks unless they fire one of their employees and hire him instead. According to court documents obtained by Bleeping Computer, on April 18, 2016, Todd Michael Gori sent an email to TSI Healthcare, a healthcare software vendor based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Gori, a 28-year-old resident of Wenatchee, Washington, threatened the company with cyber attacks by him and unnamed friends if the company did not fire one of its employees and hire him instead.
"I am giving you, TSI healthcare two choices," Gori wrote in the email. "You either lay-off [identity redacted] and replace her with me, an operator 100x better that she is oppressing. Or I will take out your entire company along with my comrades via a cyber attack. Again you have two choices. Get ride of her and hire me. Or slowly be chipped away at until you are gone. She is a horrible operator that can only manage 2 screens with an over inflated travel budget. I fly at least 10x as many places as this loon on 1/5th of the budget," the email reads. "I have petitioned for a job with you guys with her as a reference as I am a felon with computer skills and need assistance getting work as technically I have 'no work history'. She declines everytime and burries me even further."
"I am giving you, TSI healthcare two choices," Gori wrote in the email. "You either lay-off [identity redacted] and replace her with me, an operator 100x better that she is oppressing. Or I will take out your entire company along with my comrades via a cyber attack. Again you have two choices. Get ride of her and hire me. Or slowly be chipped away at until you are gone. She is a horrible operator that can only manage 2 screens with an over inflated travel budget. I fly at least 10x as many places as this loon on 1/5th of the budget," the email reads. "I have petitioned for a job with you guys with her as a reference as I am a felon with computer skills and need assistance getting work as technically I have 'no work history'. She declines everytime and burries me even further."
"Sure, I'll hire you because you've proven yourself to be so ethical..."
Snort. That's as moronic as the guy who just tried to rob a bank by writing the note on one of his checks...and then leaving it with the teller.
The problem is not the stupid, although that is impressive. The problem is the completely unwarranted inflated sense of his own skills. A Dunning-Kruger example case.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
He is a ex-felon and this having trouble getting a job. So he comes up with an idea to get back in jail, picking on a company who declined his resume a few times.
He did not seem to have hurt anyone, but only threatened them (with gun violence too). And he got 3 years worth of meals on the tax payers dime.
Mission accomplished?
Not sure how he got 100x better than her, with no work history.
He may have been exaggerating, but even if he is really only 10x better, he would still be a great employee.
He is likely very good, since he clearly doesn't waste time on silly trivialities like grammar, spelling, and coherent thinking, leaving more time to get important stuff done.
Without any other supporting evidence, It seems like there are some mental deficits in play. I'm not even going to grace the preceding statement by calling it a hypothesis, however, on the surface it looks like the only reason the story is relevant to /. is because the label "cyber" has been attached to a generic threat from a person who might be better off in an in-patient care facility instead of prison.
you could say it's an odd name...
I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin
Well, he is upper management.
QED.
Have gnu, will travel.
Could have used a link for the Dunning-Kruger reference. I'd never heard of it before. Now I know how to describe a certain politician.
"He is not trustworthy. I will not employ a person with a questionable character."
Fuck the character. I'm a grammar-Nazi and I wouldn't hire him for that reason alone.
Indeed, because the RUSSIANS metalled in the elections
Absolutely, Trump definitely alloyed with them.
All these comments are cracking at how incredibly stupid this guy is. I read incredibly desperate.
It's all smiles and wit when we talk about wealth in the USA, eat the rich, French revolution... ect.
Here is a real example of a skilled worker being excluded from the work force on account of Felon status. Keep sitting back and watching with your 5 dollar coffee and cable TV folks. Might as well heat up the popcorn while your at it. Expect more of this sort of thing.
I wonder how many times a year this sort of thing happens in the non-tech sector. This dude is going back to prison, and his family just learned what side of the coin their really on.
People are getting desperate. People are getting more hungry, and people are getting violent. Those people doing the excluding? Their buying the land and driving up the COL everywhere while looking down their noses at everybody else and trying to figure out "the homeless problem"
We're on the express train to desperate violence folks. Look around at the world. Step outside your little bubble and actually look at whats going on. This guy aint stupid. He's desperate, and so are MANY more.
When the shoe finally drops, it's going to be something to behold.
You are being ripped off every second of every day, so that advertisers can help rip you off even more tomorrow.
To me, this story is mostly a symptom that our society needs a bit more (probably, a lot more) mental health care. I don’t mean it in a disparaging way. I feel sincere pity for him. The guy wrote that he is a felon, so he’s probably done jail time; and his writing reveals obvious (and serious) psychological problems. I find it unfortunate that we cannot do better with (or rather, for) people like that. Mental health troubles can be debilitating (particularly, socially debilitating) and lead too many to jail.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand the value of personal responsibility. For example, I might get offended if someone bumps into me. But not if it’s a blind person! Unfortunately, psychological problems are (comparatively) more difficult to recognise, understand and (importantly for the legal system) confirm (and measure), so we often handle them using the expedient and cheaper device, the discard pile. This might come from insufficient scientific understanding of those conditions, and limited medical ability to treat them. But I’m afraid that it may also reflect a lack of compassion and generosity on our part, and probably a lack of vision and good judgement as well, since we’re likely ignoring a good investment.
Actually, the us population picked Hillary. elites of the electoral college pick the orangutan.
Lots of people think they are experts on the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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