Teenage hacking menace jailed for 11 months A teenage hacker who ran a botnet of compromised machines and made fake 911 emergency calls has been jailed for 11 months, The Boston Herald reports. The 17 year-old, from Worcester, Massachusetts, referred to in court papers only by his initials DH or online nickname DShocker, confessed to using a botnet to run denial of …
has hacking suddenly become so easy a teenager can cause such mischief on his home pc,or are these crackers simply geniuses and have amazing computer coding skill?
If its so easy why the hell is it not stopped before it can cause such mischief or do poeple/security labs simply not give a shit?
If they are geniuses why do they waste their skills being an utter bastard by robbing card details,causing server crashes or in this case wasting time with fake cop calls too and so on,when that genius could get an uber job being such a brainiac and live a good life?
or am i missing something?
...sounds like he actually had skills he could have used to profit considerably, but instead he just pissed people off on IRC.
So, jackass for wanting to do it, jackass for wasting the skills, and jackass for getting caught. I won't lay heavy odds on him being offered a job in IT security when he gets out...
"ISPs targeted by these attacks included Charter Communications, Road Runner, and Comcast, among others."
Your telling me that (and I really cant speak about Charter here) these companies, who make 10's-100's of MILLIONS of DOLLARS cant have security that will foil a 17yo? Yet they can trial Phorm-like add serving and bandwidth caps all to get a few more $$'s? Seriously WTF?
Not to mention he only got 11 months? If this was any other country he would either be facing extreme hacking charges and extradition to the US or have his hands cut off for this offense....I give up on this country.
/Wanted nice loving UK family to sponsor me in their country for citizenship. All I need is good beer, good food and a roof. Please?
"He obtained his victims' phone numbers and addresses after breaking into the systems of their ISP and looking up subscriber records. ISPs targeted by these attacks included Charter Communications, Road Runner, and Comcast, among others."
These damn techo wizard kidz whats wrong with a phone book, would have been 1 less charge to deal with :D
This piece of shit made fake 911 calls, and all he got was a pathetic eleven months? I'm sorry, but that's not justice. His actions endangered the lives of not only those people who were "visited" by the SWAT teams, but people in real emergencies while the emergency personnel's time was wasted with these fake emergencies. No, this goes beyond the "I was bored" argument. This was plain and simple maliciousness and disregard for human life and real emergencies. Life is too good for this scum.
"Totally wrong but freaking hilarious!"
everything apart from the 'swatting' which is tantamount to attempted murder. 11 months is a joke for something like that. If swat turn up to a 'hostage situaltion' they will shoot first at anything suspicious (ie holding something that could be mistaken for a gun, which is pretty much anything)
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