MafiaBoy

[Sterling]

I somehow doubt he'll be working for the CIA. First, IIRC, he's a Canadian. Secondly, I don't think he was anything more than a L33T skr1pt k1dd13.

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-Sterling
"There is no Linuxnewbie.org cabal..."

[Cameron McCurry]

I wonder what kind of sentence he's going to get. No matter what it is, he will be getting off light.

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You underestimate the stopping power of a twenty-meter-tall oak.

[Sterling]

Probably far heavier than he deserves, actually. Denial-of-service attacks, while some of the nastiest things one can do against a server, aren't nearly as bad as some other crimes one can commit. "Computer crime"-related penalties are almost always far inflated beyond what actually happened - plaintiffs can blow the damage far out of proportion, and realistically cannot be called on their lies.

A couple of years back, a sysadmin at some big computer company got a huge sentance for doing his job - he did something management didn't like, and didn't pander to their egos enough. You think the jury was "of his peers"? Not a chance. You think the jury he got had any idea what it ment to "grep a password file"? Most likely not.


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-Sterling
"There is no Linuxnewbie.org cabal..."

[Cameron McCurry]

I really don't have much sympathy for him. He knew that what he was doing was against the law. I think he should be barred from using a computer for a few years, but I know that's probably not going to happen.

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You underestimate the stopping power of a twenty-meter-tall oak.

[zGoRNz]

mafia what?

imho he doesn't exist.

they can't reveal his identy cause of candia, the pictures (i've seen at least) all just show the back of him, 2600 (www.2600.com) impresanated him and spoke some french and talked about snow, later the get someone in candia, they wanted to pretend they caught someone so that people aren't scared of crackers and crackers are scared of the government. the ruling will be really hard to get crackers even more scared.

as for catching him, they said they checked the ircd logs, well why not also check the logs of one of the routers used. i have cable internet from @home, lets say he r00ted me and used my comp to attack, so the fbi checks @home's router logs for who send info to my ip right before my computer started attacking. seems obviouse to me...

as for working for the cia, dos don't take skill, it's a matter of time and will. the net should be protected from this kind of thing but it's not that easy.

whatever

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