Silver screen script hacker and dox douche gets 5 years in US cooler Bahamas man Alonzo Knowles has been sentenced to five years jail for hacking the email accounts of celebrities to steal and sell unreleased television and movie scripts, music, financial documents, and pornographic self footage. Knowles plead guilty to criminal copyright infringement and identity theft in May and was sentenced …
They're a sad leftover from better, more creative days. Everything is just to make the corp execs a quick buck and a golden 'shute. And stupid assholes line up like lemmings to jump off the uncreative pile of shit into a pool of banal rehashed, remakes of slightly more popular works.
I have ZERO guilt in stealing any and all forms of media and sharing them with any passers by. The RIAA and MPAA are a joke and my personal e-toilet paper. i.e. I wipe my ass with the papers their lawyers produce. Human garbage. Every. Single. One.
But, I digress. This guy had a smooth operation, despite the super untechnical [sic] method. He just got greedy. When you hack for sport, you are much more careful. You don't wave your fucking hands in the air and attract a bunch of attention. Lay low. Subvert all your neighbor's WiFi, and more near places to park your car, or whatever mode of transport you bring your little hack kit nearest your launch point. Never ever use your own network for anything, not even DNS lookup of your targets. And watch every single James Bond movie, except the shittier new ones. Yes, you can do Never Say Never Again, but then erase it afterwards. You, idiot.
I don't think hackers are the reason why you always see two movies with the same plot. That was happening even before they were using email.
There's just no one you can keep a script a secret if you are passing it around to potential actors. The basic plot leaks out, and B movie Hollywood makes a quick and dirty version that compete with it that ends up going direct to Syfy network or whatever hoping to capitalize if it turns out to be a hit.
As a game developer I can tell you it's not just Hollywood. After a successful release it's safest to make a sequel. If you try to get creative you'll typically strike out, then you have to tell a bunch of people they're all fired. The bigger your budget, the harder it is to escape this trap.
Yep. FSM forbid that Hollywood are delayed in pumping out their very latest sequel to a rehash of a remake of a reimagining, causing US audiences to start watching foreign films that have an actual plot.
This would cause the average American to start having to think to follow the plot due to lack of explosions. Once they start thinking in the cinemas, they might start thinking at home and in general life, and bring scrutiny to TPTB.
No, not Hollywood scriptwriters, I'm talking about Alonzo Knowles. Face it, you have to be desperate, stupid or just unable to perceive the likely outcome of your actions to try something like this. Every day the rest of the population walk past a highstreet jewellers, look at the display and maybe think of smashing the window and grabbing some loot, a short term gain. But the majority do not do it because they are able to see the longer term problems that will ensue, like the problems of fencing stolen the loot and the very likely arrest and criminal conviction. Some, however, can't see beyond the short term gain. Similarly, the vast majority of IT workers have the skills and knowledge to commit e-crimes, they're just smart enough not to.
Let's face it. He didn't subvert a vulnerability or fuzz software to find a weakness, or even use injection techniques to download username and passwords from a database and then crack them. He simply used one of many script kiddie applications to get people to fill out their username and passwords using email. Something anyone who can follow simple directions and has 10 spare minutes can do.
So to think he's going to put any time into brainstorming a well conceived plan to sell this information privately or via a 3rd party is probably stretching realism to Hollywood levels.
Speaking of Hollywood...
This just shows you the idiocy of actors. Most are not well educated and have never been in a position where they need to protect anyone's property... so they are going to be clueless when it comes to InfoSec. Besides, for most... there is no such thing as bad publicity. You still watch movies right, and purchase products which sponsor them on TV. ENABLER!
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