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UK Teen Who Hacked CIA Director Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: A British teenager who gained notoriety for hacking a number of high profile United States government employees including former CIA director John Brennan and former director of intelligence James Clapper was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. Eighteen-year-old Kane Gamble pleaded guilty to 10 separate charges, including eight counts of "performing a function with intent to secure unauthorized access" and two counts of "unauthorized modification of computer material," the Guardian reported.
Gamble, otherwise known by his online alias Cracka, was 15 at the time that he started his hacking campaigns. The alleged leader of a hacking group known as Crackas With Attitude (CWA), Gamble made it a point to target members of the U.S. government. The young hacker's group managed to successfully gain access to ex-CIA director John Brennan's AOL email account. The group hacked a number of accounts belonging to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, including his personal email, his wife's email, and his phone and internet provider account. The hackers allegedly made it so every call to Clapper's home phone would get forwarded to the Free Palestine Movement.
Gamble, otherwise known by his online alias Cracka, was 15 at the time that he started his hacking campaigns. The alleged leader of a hacking group known as Crackas With Attitude (CWA), Gamble made it a point to target members of the U.S. government. The young hacker's group managed to successfully gain access to ex-CIA director John Brennan's AOL email account. The group hacked a number of accounts belonging to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, including his personal email, his wife's email, and his phone and internet provider account. The hackers allegedly made it so every call to Clapper's home phone would get forwarded to the Free Palestine Movement.
"performing a function with intent to secure unauthorized access"
James Clapper... the chap who oversaw the largest "intent to secure unauthorized access" campaign in the history of computing? The one which targeted people all around the world for "full take" access? THAT James Clapper?
When Clapper does 3 billion counts of whatever punishment this idiot kid will get, and goes away for the rest of his life, and the other people involved do similar time, then maybe we can think about what's appropriate for the idiot kid.
Until then it's simply more "rules for me but not for thee".
This is nothing less than a miscarriage of justice.
of course the government with Israel's influence wants to nail him for that.
Either way, I was with him until he decided to modify information. Release info is one thing. Modifying it is another.
Say what you will about us, and there's a lot to be said about our government, but how many "underage rape gang" scandals have come out in the UK post Rotterham? These are scandals where the authorities knew and not only did nothing, but sometimes pursued the parents for going after the men harming their daughters.
If CWA wanted to do some good, they should have pilfered Rotterham's computers and dropped everything on Wikileaks.
If Rotterham had happened in the US, you can bet your sweet ass, the FBI would have sent a small army in tactical gear and it'd be downright biblical in the sense "and they [local politically correct pols] saw what they [FBI] did and were terrified and never again was this wickedness done in the land."
And why the link in TFS? Am I to interpret this as right-swing Slashdot bosses trying to slashdot the organization's servers, or left-wing BeauHD trying to draw sympathizers to the cause?
I'm no pro-Israel zealot, but I sure think the Anti-Zionists could help their cause if they more clearly repudiated antisemitism.
That was another big story from a few years back. They blocked investigation of the charges until the last documented parliament member with ties to the sex abuse had died, because MI5 had been using 'protection' for the ring of them to get favorable financing passed through parliament.
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https://www.express.co.uk/news...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...
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http://listverse.com/2015/09/0...
https://www.pri.org/stories/20...
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/1...
You can read and decide for yourself.
The head of the CIA using an AOL account isn't as bad as it seems.
Brennan had an account with AOL from the beginning of the internet, and only used it for personal, trivial things. He had a strong password, and didn't reuse passwords. All his work-related communications were done elsewhere.
The "hack" was Gamble calling up AOL pretending to be Brennan, and having a sysadmin change the password.
Brennan did nothing wrong, and could not have prevented this. In fact, he even did things right by not having any business-related communications on that account.
I don't know the specifics of James Clappers' hack, but it was very likely the same. Assuming Clapper didn't have work-related stuff on his personal E-mail (and there's no reason to suspect that he did), this was nothing more than some high-level people being embarrassed by a kid hacker.
...how many years Trump, sons and lawyers are going to collectively get lol?
Um... none?
You do realize that the Republicans sent a recommendation for prosecution to the AG for Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Loretta Lynch, right?
And unlike nebulous charge of "collusion", the recommendation letter lays out the specific actions these people took and the specific federal laws that were broken.
You probably didn't hear about that - the MSM was pretty quiet about it.
And also note that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher claims to have physical proof that the Russians did not hack the DNC.
You knew about that, right?
Also, you do know that the original FISA court warrant was invalid on its face, so any evidence Mueller uncovers would be thrown out, right?
Also, there's been no leaks of evidence from the Muller investigation, even though everything *else* seems to have been leaked. Even when those leaks are a violation of federal law, they still happen, and yet none of them have been about evidence.
Also note that impeaching the president is an extremely high bar to clear. President Clinton was caught on camera in a baldfaced lie to congress and the people of the US ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman"), and was acquitted.
Do you think saying “I hope you can let this go” rises to that level?
You're mad.
How long will the CIA director be in jail for allowing this to happen in the first place?
Shouldnâ(TM)t those that allowed the âoeattackâ be equally if not more responsibile and subject to the same or stronger penalty?
If you dig down through to the source it seems this was a trial in a UK court.
No, he was sentenced in the UK (at the Leicester crown court) and tried as a minor, sent to a juvenile prison.
He'll likely be out in less than a year -- their justice system tends to be more "just" than the US's. Good, the people he hacked couldn't be a nicer bunch of "people."
You are ruining New Hampshire. The people who have lived there for generations want you to go away.
Were the CIA serious about IT security it would reward white hats who successfully broke in and penalize those inside the organization who failed to protect against that. Instead, they penalize white hats and there is little to no accountability within government agencies.
That is not a radical idea, it is the convention outside of government. We know that private companies offer bounties. Those of us who work for companies know that usually someone within the company who screws up is disadvantaged for that.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Muslims theocracies are bad. Christian theocracies are bad. Jewish theocracies are bad. The fervor to make sure there's enough Jewish people in Israel to be sure the Jewish maintain power makes it a theocracy to me. There's definitely a lot of countries in the region who wish all Jews killed. I understand that there's no reasonable way to placate the Muslims in the region, so even presuming Israel had actually worked to form relations with other countries in the region and assimilate the Palestinians, they'd have found some other excuse to want to kill the Jews.
It seems obvious then that the Jews in Israel, if they want to not be under that constant death threat, need to leave somewhere else because those threats aren't going away. Either that or they need to conquer the whole region. Those are basically the only two real choices. If they do the latter, the only successful way in the long-term for stability would be to not have a government that's a de facto theocracy. The current situation is just a fucking mess, though.
Wipe the spittle off your screen, dude.
...in a heartbeat.
Hacking the CIA Director doesn't necessarily mean your hack-fu is incredible, but it probably indicates that your social skills are pretty good.
That's what I want in an employee. I want somebody who can walk the walk well enough, of course. But my priority is that they make people who can help the company become more successful like and respect us. That's done through the people who speak for you. They don't need to be the brightest star in the sky. They need to be that bright person you would like to work with.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Where exactly should the Jews go? Obviously not to your country, because you are spewing forth the kind of ignorant hate that got them to leave Europe in the first place.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The fervor to make sure there's enough Jewish people in Israel to be sure the Jewish maintain power makes it a theocracy to me.
It would if there were some religious test, or direct control of the government by the church (synagogue?). There isn't, though. "Jewish" is as much a cultural identifier as a religious one, and the government is essentially secular, with Muslim and Christian politicians serving in public office.
As such, calling it a theocracy is just silly. Israelis aren't worried about trying to make sure that their country is governed by rabbis; they're worried about mass migration resulting in negative cultural changes. Any massive change in the demographics of a nation is going to have a significant impact on how that nation looks and functions.
Yes, let's just ignore the Law of Return. The government might function as a secular one, but the deck is specifically stacked to keep Jews in power.
Jewish is a culture isn't the same worldwide, so if they were so concerned about mass migration resulting in negative cultural changes, they'd make migration law based upon cultural standards, not religious ones. Beyond that, yes, near every country has some standard that tries to maintain its cultural identity. I generally consider them bullshit because the notion of a static cultural identity is bullshit.
Any massive change in time--say a couple decades--will have a significant impact on how the nation looks and feels. Again, read above.
I call it bullshit. Honest, Israel was created to be Jewish USA in the Middle-East so Jews could have their own country/army to feel safe. That they need western weapons to main superiority in power instead of numbers has made them dependent on the west to exist. It's also only further engendered a hatred that honestly won't disappear any time soon, even under the best circumstances.
PS - I know what you're really trying to get at: as Israel has adopted religious tolerance as law and matter of fact, but that tolerance only extends about as well as the US's tolerance of non-whites so long as whites feel they're in power. When Israel stops being a "Jewish State". When America stops being a "WASP Country". When the people who grow up there, no matter their religion, gender, color, etc say "I'm an Israeli/American and believe in religious freedom and tolerance" and enforce that and require that on all that migrate to the country and become citizens, then we shall be at a point I'd agree that what you're seeing is not a theocracy in any way.
At that point, it'll be a country of ideology.
You call it pragmatic, but expecting them all to leave is not pragmatic, and frankly makes you look silly. You don't need to use so many words.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Leaving Israel does not mean people still wpuld want to kill Jews. Just like thee are people who want to kill Muslims.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
You mean like recruiting, arming, financing and training pretty much every terrorist group since WW2, and breeding dictators everywhere ...?
Which USA are you talking about? Cause it sure ain't yours, or that of 99% of Americans.
Gamble hacks Brennan and gets 2 years in prison. Brennan hacks congress and walks free. Nothing wrong with the justice system if you're in the top tier of a two-tiered system.
It's called a Borstal and it's fairly accurately depicted here https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
No, he was sentenced in the UK (at the Leicester crown court) and tried as a minor, sent to a juvenile prison.
And given a maximum of 2 years. I think he'll be out before then.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
"Jewish" is one of the least meaningful identifiers there is. It can mean an adherent of the religion, someone who is part of the culture but not necessarily religious, or it can be a race.
Which just goes to show how silly Jewish conspiracy theories are.
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What he really was punished for is to show that the idiots who want every single information about everyone can't keep their own information (and of course ours) secure from a 15 year old kid.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Even if it's just personal correspondence with friends and family, getting into that account reveals all their email addresses, information about their schedules, their writing styles and habits (great for spear phising attacks), all kinds of stuff.
In practice, given how seldom encryption is used in e-mail, that information isn't very well protected to begin with.
Nearly nobody outside off /. ers uses GPG, and S/MIME is only used in some peculiar corporate settings.
Thus nearly all e-mail are clear during the exchange.
Also not every single e-mail server uses encryption.
You might have setup your email client to use, e.g.: IMAPS and SMTP with STARTLS.
But there's no guarantee that you correspondent will have done similar (or uses a webmail over HTTPS).
And no guarantee either that the various machines along the chain between your SMTP server and your correspondent IMAP server will all use TLS/SSL secured links.
So a lot of what you've mention can be gather simply by looking at un-encrypted traffic, no need to hack anyone's computer.
Aside from the embarrassment of having an @aol.com email address, they don't support a lot of basic security tech like 2 factor auth and apparently don't give their support staff any security training, so should not be used for any purpose.
That's the major problem in my opiion :
- AOL is stuck in "early 90s" style of internet security.
- it's not the kid who should get locked in. it's AOL who should be fined for awefully bad security practices.
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The only interesting thing here Is that the director of the CIA is so out of touch he's still using AOL for his primary email address.
It's a miracle; we're actually in agreement for one. Must be a Jewish conspiracy.
There are no pure cultures, and ethnically pure states always fail.
That's a completely vacuous statement. All states eventually fail in one way or another.
It's even more irrelevant in the context of this discussion given that Israel is one of the least "ethnically pure" states in existence. You're just looking for an excuse to inject your weird political talking points into the discussion.
Attempting to preserve "borders, language, and culture" is a fools errand.
Awesome. I'll just let every country in the world know that they're wasting their time with that whole borders thing. Because pope fatso says so.
You end up with some white supremacist jackoff stripping off his clothes and murdering people in a Waffle House.with an AR-15 after complaining on Facebook about the Illuminati and the Jews.
If you actually paid attention to what's going on in the world instead of getting yourself into a tizzy over the latest "news" outrage you might occasionally come up with a comment that's worth taking seriously. Luckily this seems to be a remote possibility.
Well, Iran and Egypt beg to differ. Still going strong after more than 5000 years.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I don't know if Christianity is next, but that'd be my guess.
Your guess is that Christianity is going to die next?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
That's pretty funny. I guess Germany is a good example that "ethnically pure" states don't fail either, then. In which case, which ethnically pure states were you referring to exactly?
He only uses his AOL account for trolling on Slashdot.
Why is Snark Required?
Germany is not ethnically pure, and it's brief flirtation ended up with it being split in two.
All of them. Ethnically pure states fail. None exist, and whenever an effort arises to create one, it's always an express elevator to Hell.
You are welcome on my lawn.
All of them
Awesome, thanks for being so specific.
Japan was a monoculture until their efforts at ethnic purity almost led to their destruction in 1945.
Today, Japan is actually a pretty diverse place. You will find Africans, white people, Europeans and folks from all over Asia. They don't have the levels of immigration that most Western countries have, but they are by no means an ethnic state.
If you wanted to propose more ethnically pure states, Poland and Hungary might be more appropriate, but they're actually pretty diverse too.
As I've stated, ethnic purity is a death sentence for societies. Those places just don't exist any more, and that's a good thing.
You are welcome on my lawn.