Hacker Trashes U.S. Army PCs; Faces 70 Years

[natin1337]

he deserves a hefty sentence for what he did

 

[LuckyDucky]

Gf to him haha.

 

[zninja]

Wow, 70 years sure is a long time for hacking computers and causing UPTO $700, 000.000 worth of damage.

Hopefully he'll post something on the net about what he found .. I REALLY want to know about what he claimed to be looking for (aliens) ... I've wondered that all my life thinking whether they were real or not, and if the US government was hiding something.

Anyways, poor guy.

 

[+Love+]

Pretty compelling story i honestly don't think he deserves 70 years though even know this was a serious crime.

 

[Icicle]

Lol the whole network in 24 hours, how fail is the US <- Aussie ftw!

 

[Peace_dealer]

1337 hax Lol, Pure skill, He'll be offered Probaly a spot to work for the Government.

 

[Magic Arrow]

1337 hax Lol, Pure skill, He'll be offered Probaly a spot to work for the Government.

How can he be offered a job while he in jail? I believe they are treating this more as a treason case than a hacking case.

 

[TJ]

How can he be offered a job while he in jail? I believe they are treating this more as a treason case than a hacking case.

Treason is trying to take down your own government, not another countries.

 

[~R0uge~]

70 Years? Damn, nice skills lol.

 

[T R 1 B A L]

1337 hax Lol, Pure skill, He'll be offered Probaly a spot to work for the Government.

Did you even read what daily said?

 

[Lokheed]

70 years for hacking and doing 700k in damages, but you can do the "ultimate crime" and kill someone and get off with a punishment as low as 4 years.


A wee bit ironic, no?

 

[saberd]

70 years for hacking? Now that is just pitiful, making him spend the rest of his life in jail because he is incredibly smart and hacked into a country's weak system? Come on now...

 

[thebob1423]

imo he deserves it..most likley he will get parol or get a deal out of it shortening his time though

 

[Solidddd]

If he can hack the government computers, he would most likely be offered some sort of second option, to help the government for less time. Obviously if he can hack the computers, he can sure tell the steps so that it could be avoided in the future.

Agreed, this guys skills should be used for an Advantage.

 

[Town]

This whole story is wack, I've watched a few videos and interviews about this.

-He was tried and punished already by the British, he shouldn't be punished again here in the US.

-He hardly did any actual hacking. He used a program similar to WinVNC to take over the mouse and keyboard functions of any computer he wanted to take over because EVERY COMPUTER HE HACKED HAD THE DEFAULT ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD, WHICH WAS NO PASSWORD. He did no hacking, cracking, brute forcing, exploiting..nothing. He just wrote a program that scanned the network for PC's, and then generated a list of exploitable PC's that had no password. Fucking government. Makes me want to rage thinking we can even punish anyone for that degree of stupidity, lazyness, and lack of basic security on government PC's. Why the fuck does the government even use PC's anyway? Linux existed then..

Was he targetting government computers, or did he just stumble onto a network that happened to have government computers on it? I'm sure he had to put in a little bit of effort to make his way onto that, unless I'm overestimating the government once again.

 

If he's still alive when he gets out it's likely that he'll be employed by Microsoft or some other software development company.

 

[MaderJJ]

I think he was doing them a favor, showing them how weak the systems are.

Well, I feel sorry for him, 70 years is along time, but he might get out before then.

So True

 

[Tengauge12]

Yes, I agree he would get about before then aswell..

It's kinda nonsence though that he had done it, or even attempted to. He should have took his knowledge and offered it.

 

[Daily]

Was he targetting government computers, or did he just stumble onto a network that happened to have government computers on it? I'm sure he had to put in a little bit of effort to make his way onto that, unless I'm overestimating the government once again.

He was seeking existing top secret evidence of alien life, so yes he was targeting government networks.

 

[wexpo]

I love how half the people here think the damage bullshit is real, or the fact that he's getting trialed for it is true.

Guys, think for a second... This person VERY WELL knew what he was doing, as well as the fact that IF he left ANY kind of mark, they would find him immediatly...
You really think he would "damage" (delete, corrupt) files? He clearly is smart enough to realize you don't fuck with such vital data.

He's getting trialed for "knowing" top-secret information. Who knows what he DID found on their computers, and the USA are simply trying to cover it up "making up" this 700,000 dollar excuse.

As they said it themselves, he had acces to vital information (Probably including some "Mars"-facts nobody should know) which was hidden from public, and USA government simply wants to make sure he doesn't share that information. (70 years for "Only" 700,000 dollars? I've known cases in which people drove tanks into buildings, causing well over 1,000,000 dollars damage -tank alone probably is half of that- and onyl getting 10 years)

I hope they don't send him to USA, otherwise he'll stay there for a LONG time. (Till he dies pretty much)