Who's laughing now?
Me :)
A former LulzSec hacker has been jailed for a year for ransacking Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer systems. Cody Kretsinger, 25, from Decatur, Illinois - better known to his fellow LulzSec cohorts as "Recursion" - was also ordered to carry out 1,000 hours of community service, and a year of home detention, following his …
Hector Xavier "Sabu" Monsegur, was revealed in March 2012 as an FBI informer who had been grassing on his former cohorts for 10 months after his arrest in June 2011. Sabu's sentencing was delayed by 6 months in February due to his "ongoing cooperation with the government".
A grass? I bet you he's going to be somebody's bitch when he eventually goes inside "pound-me-in-the-ass-prison". Unless he's that way inclined, he won't be laughing.
If you ask me, they did it all wrong. They should've gone to Chine and lived there and done it - where the local police and politicians really don't give a shit about Hollywood - or the Japz for that matter.
It's pathetic that homegrown talent gets banged up while offshore nothing happens - they laugh in the face of America.
"....something touch a raw nerve?...." Sorry to burst your little homophobic bubble, but no, you provide nothing more than amusement, in keeping with the rest of the Anonyputzs, Dickileaks and other self-deluding Faithful. For you to touch a nerve you would first have to have an original thought, and that would seem as likely as QPR winning this year's Premier League.
".....Methinks the lady, sorry queen, doth protest too much." Ask your mum, when the milkman or the postie's through with her. Don't interrupt her, she needs the money for your school uniform.
@Matt Bryant - when in a hole, it's advisable to not keep digging -the more frothy mouthed you get the more people are going to ask questions. As for my mum, she's a 75 year old widow, so fair play to her if she's still getting banged by the milkman and the postie. And if she's charging it'll certainly help supplement her pension.
".....when in a hole...." LOL! It is very obviously you and your similarly upset skiddie friends, all crying over Recursion's inevitable trip to prison, that are very obviously in a hole seeing as you cannot post anything relevant. No arguments, no justifications, just whiney posts against those that mock your "hero" for the very obvious fool he is. What, did it all get a bit too serious for you when the lulz started getting jail time?
".....the more frothy mouthed you get...." Park your ego, chum, that's me laughing at you, no frothing involved.
".... As for my mum, she's a 75 year old widow...." And she's still paying for you to get through school at that age! Hadn't you better buck up and pass first grade, you can't go on living in her basement for ever.
"Matt, ever been trolled before?......" And, as expected, unable to present an argument you fall back on the "it was only a joke, just for lulz, etc" fail. But I expected that from the first post you made as AC - when "trolling for the lulz" it is customary to tag up. Straight back at you, that sound is me ROFLMAO.
Some people downvote if you speak out against whatever they happen to have a hard-on for. Be it Apple, Windows, Linux or Sony; people will just think "This was anti-My Thing" and downvote without caring about content.
Sony engaged in a mass hack of consumer PCs and faced zero censure. If their execs were given a similar punishment as Mr. Ex-Lulz here; you can be others would take note.
But the rich can buy the justice they want. Unlike you and me.
No it isn't it is because the idiots in the music side did it over the heads of head office. Sony music needs culling not Sony corp.
Sony Computer Entertainment is totally different to the home of Simon Cowell, it is actually respected for a start.
Perhaps people are fed up of people having a go at SCE? (? = A E or J), for the crimes of BMG and Columbia. This is where greed beat the traditional quality thing.
BTW I have no BMG music. Yet I have Naughty Dog products.
You can map the exact moment when things turned and Sony started to lose its way and it was with the purchase of CBS records in 1988. Media studios make shitty hardware because they care more about protecting their own business models than giving the customers what they want (see Sony for last decade). This is why we say iPod and iPhone today instead of iWalkman and whatever Sony would have called their phone.
Sony engaged in a mass hack of consumer PCs and faced zero censure. If their execs were given a similar punishment as Mr. Ex-Lulz here; you can be others would take note.
As long as it is BMG staff go ahead, do what you want, just leave the rest alone, most people actually like Kaz and co.
BTW lets blame Simon Cowell, he will do.
Want to explain your rationale?
I'm guessing you are talking about " First 4 Internet" from a decade ago, so tell us how that directly translates into " Sony execs get for hacking millions of consumer's PCs"
More so that it was only ever on 10,000 CD's the vast majority of which were recalled. So your millions of consumer PC's is at best a couple of hundred, and even then nobody actually got hacked off the back of it...
Isn't it great how idiots believe any old internet myth if it suits their agenda.
Agreed. The shittiest part is that his paycheck will be garnished until the fine is paid. Court ordered fines are deducted from your paycheck by your employer before you even get the check. You still have to pay taxes on it too... Fines can't be taken from 'social benefits' though so our wonderful legal system has created another person who has no reason to work and to live off 'the dole' forever.
Yet, you are completely content that it was bloody trivial what they did and no one gives a damn. A few PR stuns by Sony and the like and magically everything is better?
5 years for what? Demonstrating that people collectivity don't know shit about tech or security? I wasn't a big LolSec fan, but that fact that people are so willing to target "script kiddies" is more sad in my mind. Glad corporate BS can be bought with a couple of cheap PR words.
No Sony employees have gone to prison or paid any fines for busting a few hundred thousand machines with their rootkit. That fine amounts to about $2500/hr in clean up costs. Allowing about 4 hours labour to repair each PC that Sony broke (that's a very low-ball estimate) that would equate to $10K per machine that Sony owes it's customers for fixing the damage done by their rootkit. IIRC that rootkit infected an awful lot of machines, but let's be kind to Sony here and say it was a mere 100,000 machines they fekked. By this judgement's arithmetic Sony owe at least $1bn to the poor suckers who bought Alicia Key's CDs.
That isn't even taking into account that the damage done to some of those PCs would have cost people lost business too... So that $1bn figure is a *very* low ball estimate, it could easily be 10 times that in practice.
It seems your opinion is out of step with most people here.
I have no sympathy with Sony. $600k is an amount their corporates could easily spend in white powder a year, so they lost nothing. They would have done better holding up their hands, doing the coporate equivalent of a wry shrug and saying "Well, we got pwned! It probably serves us right for the whole rootkit thing!" Their reputation would have gone up no end. But no, they have to be vindictive, and ensure that they are about as popular as fart in a space-suit for years to come.
Silly, but that is the world these lunatic corporations have created - no-one should be surprised when people kick back, and really the kickers should be supported by the rest of us.
Meanwhile the British LulzSec element will be sentenced to a slap on the wrist and early to bed without any cocoa, with time off for good behaviour and a guilty plea.
If, however, they had poked fun at somebody using Twitter or posted a racist joke on Facebook they'd all be off to Wakefield for 35 years. I'm not sure if the UK justice system is quaint and old fashioned, or just plain broken.