I have a friend that worked with Pixar for six months last year, just around the time all the "Pixar hates Disney" issues came out, and Pixar told the world they were leaving the magic kingdom for better deals.
From what he told me about the inside attitude of Pixar, I would find it VERY hard to see them being involved with any movie produced by Disney, since "Cars" is the last one they are doing together.
Too bad, as I would love to have seen Pixar build the world of Tron - instead we may have the MCP with a giant pair of mouse ears, and ICP's dancing to "On Off, On Off, it's off to RAM we go..."
I disagree - if they (The Feds) were involved with other cases, which were exposed by this guy, they may have been waiting until they could shore up their defenses before allowing this to hit the news.
Once it's out there in the mainstream media, the world knows, and once the world knows, any international crime cases involved with the leaked information would have to be solid as a rock.
From the Article http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271 "He'd obtained a log of an IRC chat session in which a hacker named "Myth" copy-and-pasted excerpts of an internal Secret Service memorandum report, and a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty from the Russian Federation. Both documents are described in the Secret Service affidavit as "highly sensitive information pertaining to ongoing USSS criminal cases.""
Looking at this from the perspective of someone who was working inside the USSS cases, can you imagine what they had to contend with? There is more here than just some kid cracking a system for a few SSN's and cute pictures.
Your taking crazy pills. But that's another topic altogether...
For anyone who has ever gone through the process to get hired by our powers-that-be, I think we can all agree it's not as easy as "So, you like it here? Good, your hired, start Monday, cube two down from the right."
This guy not only gets to skip all the hoopla on getting hired, he spent the better part of a year with the possibility of making money from his crimes. Then our SS men come swooping in from above, nab him, smack him on his wrist, and offer him a job.
Hmmm... Go through the hiring process with thousands of other people, taking months and months, only to find out there are two positions for four thousand applicants, or...
So you are going to stop using every piece of tech in your life?
I am a customer too, and I did have the "to heck with T-Mobile" thought when I first saw this. The reality is, there are more and more of these people out there, and I would be suprised if T-mobile is the only company you deal with in your personal life that has been cracked and hacked.
The best we can hope for at this point is a big old "Sorry, the feds made us keep quiet". Although I am a little troubled that this hit so close to home, I'm glad they held out and nailed a ring of these guys. I just hope they don't let them off with slaps and fines.
I am a T-mobile cust. and I hope to hear if there are more than one of me out there.
I work for fraud at a bank, so I get to see some of the "handywork" that can be done with just a couple of numbers (SSN and b-date). Every application that is "fishy" is picked out, and the true owners are called to verify. Here's to hoping for a call soon (or maybe not...)
I played every waking hour for three months straight. Then I got a job, and had to leave Paragon city for good, since I was not about to stay awake for 24 hrs a day 7 days a week. Where is this control you refer to?
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I have a friend that worked with Pixar for six months last year, just around the time all the "Pixar hates Disney" issues came out, and Pixar told the world they were leaving the magic kingdom for better deals.
From what he told me about the inside attitude of Pixar, I would find it VERY hard to see them being involved with any movie produced by Disney, since "Cars" is the last one they are doing together.
Too bad, as I would love to have seen Pixar build the world of Tron - instead we may have the MCP with a giant pair of mouse ears, and ICP's dancing to "On Off, On Off, it's off to RAM we go..."
I disagree - if they (The Feds) were involved with other cases, which were exposed by this guy, they may have been waiting until they could shore up their defenses before allowing this to hit the news.
Once it's out there in the mainstream media, the world knows, and once the world knows, any international crime cases involved with the leaked information would have to be solid as a rock.
From the Article http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271
"He'd obtained a log of an IRC chat session in which a hacker named "Myth" copy-and-pasted excerpts of an internal Secret Service memorandum report, and a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty from the Russian Federation. Both documents are described in the Secret Service affidavit as "highly sensitive information pertaining to ongoing USSS criminal cases.""
Looking at this from the perspective of someone who was working inside the USSS cases, can you imagine what they had to contend with? There is more here than just some kid cracking a system for a few SSN's and cute pictures.
Your taking crazy pills. But that's another topic altogether...
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For anyone who has ever gone through the process to get hired by our powers-that-be, I think we can all agree it's not as easy as "So, you like it here? Good, your hired, start Monday, cube two down from the right."
This guy not only gets to skip all the hoopla on getting hired, he spent the better part of a year with the possibility of making money from his crimes. Then our SS men come swooping in from above, nab him, smack him on his wrist, and offer him a job.
Hmmm... Go through the hiring process with thousands of other people, taking months and months, only to find out there are two positions for four thousand applicants, or
So you are going to stop using every piece of tech in your life?
I am a customer too, and I did have the "to heck with T-Mobile" thought when I first saw this. The reality is, there are more and more of these people out there, and I would be suprised if T-mobile is the only company you deal with in your personal life that has been cracked and hacked.
The best we can hope for at this point is a big old "Sorry, the feds made us keep quiet". Although I am a little troubled that this hit so close to home, I'm glad they held out and nailed a ring of these guys. I just hope they don't let them off with slaps and fines.
I am a T-mobile cust. and I hope to hear if there are more than one of me out there.
I work for fraud at a bank, so I get to see some of the "handywork" that can be done with just a couple of numbers (SSN and b-date). Every application that is "fishy" is picked out, and the true owners are called to verify. Here's to hoping for a call soon (or maybe not...)
I played every waking hour for three months straight. Then I got a job, and had to leave Paragon city for good, since I was not about to stay awake for 24 hrs a day 7 days a week. Where is this control you refer to?