US can't get its hands on Navy hacker Victor Faur, aka SirVic A Slovenian court has declined America's request to extradite hacker Victor Faur, on the basis that he's already received a sentence in Romania. Faur gained notoriety for breaking into US Navy, NASA and Department of Energy systems in 2005 and 2006. Tried and convicted in Romania, he received a 16 month suspended sentence and …
Sounds fair to me. A person shouldn't be punished for the same crime twice..... tkioz Posted Wednesday 22nd January 2014 04:39 GMT
Extradition for the purpose of recruitment and proprietary intellectual property transfer/access/sharing ..... the next grand design and cipher blockbuster and new fangled entanglement app for forces all at sea and lost in C/Virtual Wwworld Order Play?
Y'all do know the Base Great Game, according to history and Wikipedia, yo? ......... The Great Game
Seems we be on not dissimilar wavelengths, dssf, with the proof being in the posting of Wednesday 22nd January 2014 06:04 GMT.
Man, sometimes people just are ungrateful.
If he didn't damage, destroy, diminish, or publish the security flaws, then good on him, and bad on them for looking a gift horse in the mouth and crying foul. One'd think that agencies striving for constantly-improved security would say, "Thanks! But, next time, get a Test Requisition Chit" instead of globally hunting down someone who could be converted into an asset more smoothly.
I admit I did not follow the matter and so my shoot-from-the-hip bit may need some re-tuning (coerced or ham-fisted retuning roundly rejected...).
U.S. Government departments REALLY do not like having the piss taken out of their lack of security, do they!
As dssf says, ungrateful lot. Ah, but you didn't follow the rules that we set up for testing - or in this case not bothering to test - obviously!
In fact, having lived in Texas for a for a couple of years and come up against this sort of bureaucratic crap, I have concluded that a prerequisite for anyone working for a U.S. government department is to have had a frontal lobotomy to remove both common sense and any sense of humour (or in their case humor).
The U.K. has an excellent term for these sort of people - jobsworths, where their only qualification is to be able to follow rules.
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