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Church Elder/'Jeopardy' Champion Charged With Computer Crimes (mlive.com)
Stephanie Jass, a record-setting, seven-time winner on Jeopardy, has been charged with two felonies for accessing the email accounts of two executives at the college where she worked as an assistant professor. An anonymous reader quotes MLive:
Jass was able to access the accounts because of an April 24 issue with the college email system, hosted by Google. Frank Hribar, vice president for enrollment and student affairs, said there was network outage caused by loss of power. On April 25, users received a text message with a generic, standard passcode: "Please attempt to login to Gmail using this password. You should be prompted to change password after login..." Not everyone, however, was prompted to do so. Some did make the change using a tutorial. Some received an error and were unable to create a new password, the timeline states. Others did not alter the password at all. The method "worked just fine, had there not been manipulation of the system," said Hribar...
Jass, 47, of Tecumseh was charged in December with unauthorized access to a computer, program or network, and using a computer to commit a crime, both felonies... On May 5, the college deactivated Jass' email account and access to all other college software. The locks to her office door were changed and her desktop computer was confiscated, according to the timeline.
The police report "indicates Jass accessed emails while using an internet network at First Presbyterian Church of Tecumseh, where she served as an elder."
Jass, 47, of Tecumseh was charged in December with unauthorized access to a computer, program or network, and using a computer to commit a crime, both felonies... On May 5, the college deactivated Jass' email account and access to all other college software. The locks to her office door were changed and her desktop computer was confiscated, according to the timeline.
The police report "indicates Jass accessed emails while using an internet network at First Presbyterian Church of Tecumseh, where she served as an elder."
power loss = reset passwords ????
The shitty summary doesn't even mention motive.
Non story.
Captcha: grassy
Whatever happened to 'Thou Shalt Not take advantage of they neighbor's inept security practices'?
Please tell me how they suppose how you'd do the one without the other. IOW, why specify?
Why, also, say "an internet network"; technically correct, but what is it they mean with it exactly? Since they're obviously splitting hairs, they can please explain why they're splitting exactly this way and what they mean with it. Go on, do tell.
Why does this zombie of a site even exist anymore?
The fact that this person was a former Jeopardy champion, or the fact that she may have been recognized as an elder of some church is entirely irrelevant except insomuch as it might make some people who wouldn't otherwise give two shits about what this person did to instead click on the link to read about it.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Just nixing the miracle defence?
Yeah well I guess it's wrong, but once again did this illegal 'hacking' turn up actual evidence of crooked management as was suggested? Sounds like something more needs to be looked into.
-- God.
Christophobic leftards.
From TFA:
Jass admitted to school authorities to accessing the emails of Docking, Caldwell, Assistant Vice President Bridgette Winslow, several unnamed fellow faculty members and students, including her stepson. She made these acknowledgements May 8 in a meeting with Human Resources Director Renee Burck; Vice President of Business Affairs Jerry Wright; and Patrick Quinlan, president of the faculty union, according to a timeline put together by the college and contained in the police report.
If I've learned anything about crime from corporations, it's that you should deny everything until the end of time and frustrate the prosecution endlessly until they are willing to let you go with a slap on the wrist but without admitting guilt.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
tell me she has a brother named Hugh.
I read the title, saw "Church", "Elder", and "Jeopardy champion". The first two made me think "LDS" because of my upbringing and that plus Jeopardy champion... well.
I see my shadow changing, stretching up and over me...
Came here to say that. Thanks.
Lately it's driving me nuts the way everyone misunderstands the word Internet. It means network of networks, not The Web. Gaahhh.
Gmail
As a result, Jass had a document "that consisted of notes and comments and 'problems'" regarding faculty members, a fellow professor told a detective.
So she did what Google does, only without automation.
Please tell me how they suppose how you'd do the one without the other.
If you went dumpster diving and found printed out e-mails, you would be accessing e-mails while not using an internet network.
But there's such a thing as local mail too. And uucp. And many other ways to transfer, deliver or read e-mail that does not require an internet network.
Jass is a very attractive lady, I was very interested in dating her.
Film at 11
It makes me sick when people get charged with felonies when the real crime is incompetent organizations and technology companies pushing products that are defective. Computer crimes like this aren't felony worthy. Putting out defective technology on the other hand... and this is coming from the CEO of a technology company. At best they should be misdemeanors because the attacks aren't the individuals who created the problem. The problem already existed due to negligence of someone else. You can't fix these problems by going after some user down stream who takes advantage of the situation. What is actionable in terms of one user isn't actionable in terms of another user so ultimately no matter what you do legally you can't resolve the issue without attacking the actual problem: ie bugs, misconfiguration, etc.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...
But he does not say anything there about not talking to colleagues or HR...
She plays Learned League, and is a damn sight better at it than I am.
So wait a second. There was a power outage. Somehow that equals reset passwords. Then they apparently send the same temporary password out to everybody via text message? The IT guy should be held in criminal contempt.
those goddamn Presbyterians. worse than the Mormons, Moonies and Scientologists
On April 25, users received a text message with a generic, standard passcode: "Please attempt to login to Gmail using this password. You should be prompted to change password after login..."
Some admin intentionally exposed everyone's emails. Did that person keep their job, one they are clearly not qualified for?
They set ALL the passwords to the same thing, then told EVERYBODY the password, and that meets their definition of "working fine"? That meets my definition of fundamentally broken.
"What does God need with an internet?"
So from this article I learned that all church people are evil cyber terrorists that need to be controlled. We need to accept atheism as the official dogma of the state. Jesus is an illusion. The state however is real, powerful and must be obeyed. We must crush these idolatrous Christians with the power of atheism in order to protect our computers from religious fundamentalism.
Is her husband's name Hugh?
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
What is this church hiding? They used a vicious badlaw to purge and silence this woman. What did they fear she would reveal to the public?