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Bumbling Hacker 'Bitcoin Baron' Sentenced To 20 Months In Prison (bleepingcomputer.com)

An anonymous reader writes: "A hacker once considered 'the Internet's most inept criminal' received on Monday a prison sentence of 20 months in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the city of Madison, Wisconsin -- attacks which caused delays and outages to various municipality services, including its 911 emergency call center," reports Bleeping Computer. He was sentenced for this attack in particular, part of a plea deal, but his attacks span over two years.

The hacker, Randall Charles Tucker, 23, known as Bitcoin Baron, never bothered hiding his attacks, advertised them on Twitter, and used public chats and Skype to brag about his deeds. According to a timeline of events, Tucker carried out all of these hacks -- most of which were downright silly -- as a way to boost his reputation before going to jail for stabbing his father with a prison knife. The plan backfired when authorities linked him to the hacks and received another 20 months in prison on top of the original 18 months.

39 comments

  1. Slow day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In american n1ggerstan. Some random guy got jailed, another shot, and rich assholes push you slaves around like shit.

  2. Sentencing by jrumney · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So the message to take away from this is that an inept hack will get you more time in prison than stabbing your father with a prison knife (I don't actually get this bit - he was doing his hacking while he and his father were in prison for something else?)

    1. Re:Sentencing by ls671 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Also, what is the robustness of their 911 service to be affected by a DDOS? I mean, I could understand the system experiencing problems if every citizen in the city called 911 at the same time but an Internet based attack without actually dialing 911?

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    2. Re:Sentencing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It says his attacks "caused delays and outages to various municipality services, including its 911 emergency call center." Causing outages to the 911 service could lead to multiple deaths, and is far more serious than stabbing somebody.

    3. Re:Sentencing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe if he had hacked his father to death he would have gotten 20 months.

    4. Re:Sentencing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      POTS systems are all but dead in many locations. It's all VoIP now.

    5. Re:Sentencing by ls671 · · Score: 2

      Sure I know this and I thought about this possibility. But having your VOIP 911 system DDoSable from public IP addresses seems weak. Just use a dedicated link unreachable from the Internet for your critical VOIP systems heck, for all your critical IP systems.

      1) DDoS 911
      2) Hit target
      3) Profit!

      That seems too simple for me! Especially since it looks like the guy isn't that smart!

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    6. Re:Sentencing by lucasnate1 · · Score: 1

      In capitalism, the property of rich citizens is more important than the life of the poor.

    7. Re:Sentencing by jon3k · · Score: 1

      I was wondering the same thing. Maybe it was using a distributed set of VoiP clients to actually dial 911 to tie up all the lines. Not sure how they manage to get routed the the same PSAP to overwhelm it if it was distributed.

    8. Re:Sentencing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure I know this and I thought about this possibility. But having your VOIP 911 system DDoSable from public IP addresses seems weak. Just use a dedicated link unreachable from the Internet for your critical VOIP systems heck, for all your critical IP systems.

      1) DDoS 911 2) Hit target 3) Profit!

      That seems too simple for me! Especially since it looks like the guy isn't that smart!

      The problem is, who is going to pay for the dedicated link service? What you said doesn't come as free. And if you are going to argue about the cost should be nothing, then you should also learn about politic and real world. Don't expect an ideal solution from your knowledge to be applied in the real world where you has no involvement. You can say would've, could've, should've, but that solve nothing but just a talk.

    9. Re:Sentencing by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      So the message to take away from this is that an inept hack will get you more time in prison than stabbing your father with a prison knife (I don't actually get this bit - he was doing his hacking while he and his father were in prison for something else?)

      I assumed it was a typo for "kitchen knife".

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  4. Re:GAY NIGGER FUCKING FELCHING ASS RAMMING FUN! GN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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  5. Re:GAY NIGGER FUCKING FELCHING ASS RAMMING FUN! GN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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  6. Prison knife by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He stabbed his father with a kitchen knife, not a prison knife.BR>
    Also, if your website is defaced by some script kiddie hacker, you have serious opSec problems.

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    1. Re:Prison knife by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Kitchen, prison, my wife acts like those are the same thing occasionally.

    2. Re:Prison knife by ASDFnz · · Score: 1

      He stabbed his father with a kitchen knife, not a prison knife.

      I was wondering.

      I started to think they came up with an innovative way to cut down prison population my issuing the inmates with knives... Perhaps we should tweet that to Trump, he may run with the idea.

    3. Re:Prison knife by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      serious opSec problems

      a.k.a. DevOps

    4. Re: Prison knife by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My wife cut off their tails with a carving knife.

    5. Re:Prison knife by SharpFang · · Score: 1

      A prison knife is a makeshift weapon, like a spoon with sharpened handle, or other sharpened piece of metal the inmate obtained by ripping it off off some infrastructure, then shaped, sharpened by grinding against whatever would serve as the abrasive, and added a handle by wrapping it in a strip of cloth or plastic.

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  7. Um... you're gonna have a hard time by rsilvergun · · Score: 1

    convincing me this guy isn't mentally ill. Seriously, there's something wrong here. Should we really be locking this guy up for several years as opposed to diverting him to the care of a facility. Hell, thanks to private prisons it would probably be cheaper.

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    1. Re:Um... you're gonna have a hard time by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

      convincing me this guy isn't mentally ill.

      Uncyclopedia describes this guy's mental condition:

      http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/...

      Asshole Personality Disorder (APD) is the most common mental disorder found in humans.

      The disturbances caused by Asshole Personality Disorder are usually not suffered by the patient at all, but by those around him: tension headaches, frustration, impotent rage, high blood pressure, suicidal or homicidal urges and a complete failure of rational thinking processes when trying to deal with this asshole. Being subjected to someone's Asshole Personality Disorder can cause a wide-ranging and pervasive negative impact on relationships in work, home and social settings.

      As to your suggested treatment:

      Should we really be locking this guy up for several years as opposed to diverting him to the care of a facility. Hell, thanks to private prisons it would probably be cheaper.

      In this guy's case, a fitting punishment would be making him pay for his incarceration. Saddle him with debt, just like we do to college students.

      Uncyclopedia on treatment:

      The condition renders the patient not susceptible to normal therapies. Long-term psychotherapy only seems to encourage them. Skinnerian cattleprod application can produce practical results in many cases, and if it doesn't they almost certainly deserve it anyway.

      Blanket party therapy is used with a high success rate in the armed forces, with only occasional recourse to fragging therapy being required. Some therapists have had great success treating Asshole Personality Disorder with arsenic therapy, cyanide therapy or high-velocity lead therapy, but these treatments remain technically illegal.

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    2. Re:Um... you're gonna have a hard time by ScentCone · · Score: 1

      Seriously, there's something wrong here.

      Yeah, he's a narcissistic dick. And he decided to do a number of criminally stupid things. Locking him away is a reasonable consequence for being a criminally dangerous dick.

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    3. Re: Um... you're gonna have a hard time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APD is indeed quite a serious illness that doesn't get the awareness it deserves. Creimer is just one of many well-known sufferers of this condition.

    4. Re:Um... you're gonna have a hard time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      convincing me this guy isn't mentally ill.

      Nobody gives a fuck about your woefully uninformed opinion about this guy, really, which is for the best.

  8. Prison will be good for him by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    It'll make him get out of his comfort zone a bit, meet new people... who knows, maybe he'll become a girlfriend.

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    1. Re:Prison will be good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Ah yes, because being sodomized 240+ times is the appropriate punishment for a non-violent crime. /s

      p.s. IMO, joking about prison rape is implicitly saying that prison rape is okay. Prison rape is not okay. Prison rapists should have their genitals cut off.

    2. Re: Prison will be good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      The guards and especially prison administrators allow and encourage this peculiarly American form of torture should be:

      - fired without compensation
      - publicly shamed
      - barred for life from public service

    3. Re:Prison will be good for him by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2

      for a non-violent crime

      Like stabbing? ;)

      is implicitly saying

      Highly debatable.

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  9. Re:GAY NIGGER FUCKING FELCHING ASS RAMMING FUN! GN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It probably fell off in his cute sheep.

  10. Wait ... doesn't he now ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... qualify for a pardon?

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  11. Re:GAY NIGGER FUCKING FELCHING ASS RAMMING FUN! GN by Quzak · · Score: 0

    This is the most glorious thing I have ever witnessed. I feel as though I need an adult to come and explain this to me. Pure awe.

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  12. I liked the beer barron better by istartedi · · Score: 1

    Because it was Homer, and that was a pretty decent episode of the Simpsons. Also, beer is actually good and Bitcoin just goes "bloop!" or something on a computer.

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  13. Some Important Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As an enlightened, modern parent, I try to be as involved as possible in the lives of my six children. I encourage them to join team sports. I attend their teen parties with them to ensure no drinking or alcohol is on the premises. I keep a fatherly eye on the CDs they listen to and the shows they watch, the company they keep and the books they read. You could say I'm a model parent. My children have never failed to make me proud, and I can say without the slightest embellishment that I have the finest family in the USA.
    Two years ago, my wife Carol and I decided that our children's education would not be complete without some grounding in modern computers. To this end, we bought our children a brand new Compaq to learn with. The kids had a lot of fun using the handful of application programs we'd bought, such as Adobe's Photoshop and Microsoft's Word, and my wife and I were pleased that our gift was received so well. Our son Peter was most entranced by the device, and became quite a pro at surfing the net. When Peter began to spend whole days on the machine, I became concerned, but Carol advised me to calm down, and that it was only a passing phase. I was content to bow to her experience as a mother, until our youngest daughter, Cindy, charged into the living room one night to blurt out: "Peter is a computer hacker!"

    As you can imagine, I was amazed. A computer hacker in my own house! I began to monitor my son's habits, to make certain that Cindy wasn't just telling stories, as she is prone to doing at times.

    After a few days of investigation, and some research into computer hacking, I confronted Peter with the evidence. I'm afraid to say, this was the only time I have ever been truly disappointed in one of my children. We raised them to be honest and to have integrity, and Peter betrayed the principles we tried to encourage in him, when he refused point blank to admit to his activities. His denials continued for hours, and in the end, I was left with no choice but to ban him from using the computer until he is old enough to be responsible for his actions.

    After going through this ordeal with my own family, I was left pondering how I could best help others in similar situations. I'd gained a lot of knowledge over those few days regarding hackers. It's only right that I provide that information to other parents, in the hope that they will be able to tell if their children are being drawn into the world of hacking. Perhaps other parents will be able to steer their sons back onto the straight and narrow before extreme measures need to be employed.

    To this end, I have decided to publish the top ten signs that your son is a hacker. I advise any parents to read this list carefully and if their son matches the profile, they should take action. A smart parent will first try to reason with their son, before resorting to groundings, or even spanking. I pride myself that I have never had to spank a child, and I hope this guide will help other parents to put a halt to their son's misbehaviour before a spanking becomes necessary.

    1. Has your son asked you to change ISPs?

    Most American families use trusted and responsible Internet Service Providers, such as AOL. These providers have a strict "No Hacking" policy, and take careful measures to ensure that your internet experience is enjoyable, educational and above all legal. If your child is becoming a hacker, one of his first steps will be to request a change to a more hacker friendly provider.

    I would advise all parents to refuse this request. One of the reasons your son is interested in switching providers is to get away from AOL's child safety filter. This filter is vital to any parent who wants his son to enjoy the internet without the endangering him through exposure to "adult" content. It is best to stick with the protection AOL provides, rather than using a home-based solution. If your son is becoming a hacker, he will be able to circumvent any home-based measures with surprising ease, using information gleaned from various hacker

    1. Re:Some Important Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What a wild and crazy ride. I had no idea hacking was so detrimental to my child's development. Can my daughter become a hacker too?

    2. Re:Some Important Info by khandom08 · · Score: 1

      Best troll post of the year kudos! :)

  14. idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    HODL him in custody

  15. Nice by amanneha · · Score: 0