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AT&T iPad Security Breach Hacker Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison
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In that case - why aren't AT&T in the dock for leaving customer's data vulnerable in such an unprotected way. Maybe rather than giving "hackers" such harsh sentences, we should start making the people who left the vulnerabilities there in the first place accountable.
You can't compare the rape case to this one because those were teenagers. They were falling under a different set of rules. A teenager found "delinquent" (not "guilty", that is a term for adults) for hacking would not have received 41 months most likely.
i don't care about the ages, i am talking specifically about the crime.
rape is rape. being 17 vs being 18 does not change the crime. rape at ANY age should carry more than a 1 year sentence period. that right there is another problem with the system.
Identity theft is near impossible if you're intelligent about how to protect your information. If you're just stupid and don't protect yourself, you kind of deserve whatever you get.
So you're saying that it's ok to rob grocery stores. Because, you know, they have less security than banks. If they really didn't want me to steal that ham they should have locked it up!
I'd say that it's the intent to commit a crime that's being punished here, not the ease at which it was done. By that logic you should say drunk driving shouldn't be punished at all since it's the easiest crime of all!
I would hope one wouldn't go to prison for 3 1/2 years for walking into someone's house and looking around.
If you actually read that story, you will find out they they will serve a minimum of 1 year, with the possibility of being detained until once teen is 21 years old, and the other until 24. So the older kid could technically get 7 years.
but you know they won't......
once the news media witch hunt is over, the prosecution won't be pressured to make a big deal about it anymore and they will move onto the next high-attention case
What is even more unreal about this is the fact that all he did was obtain a list of email addresses and publish it.
That said, the guy who did this is a real class act. He's nothing but a troll trying to disguise himself as a Social "Hacktivist"... read up on the guy and you will see how much of a turd he really is.
That said, the guy who did this is a real class act. He's nothing but a troll trying to disguise himself as a Social "Hacktivist"... read up on the guy and you will see how much of a turd he really is.
Are you even familiar with the facts of the case? I'm not the sort of person who thinks computer crime ought to have no consequences -- far from it, in fact. I am, however, quite alarmed by an overzealous interpretation that effectively criminalizes the legitimate GET requests after the fact.
You request resource X at a given URL. The server responds with the requested resource. That's it, end of story. If you're allowing public access to your systems, the onus is on you to secure it. AT&T didn't.
The "open front door" metaphor a few people in here have used is absurd, precisely because of it fails to recognize how the HTTP standards operate. Ignoring the plethora of biases associated with the "home" image, the better (but still flawed) analogy would be that you walk down a street, knocking on the doors to various homes, and the houses choose to open the door for you in order to allow access.
i know, hence why i exactly said that in an earlier post.
thanks for reading, do come again
Luckily these laws weren't in place when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak profited by stealing from the phone companies.
"If we hadn't had made blue boxes there would have been no Apple" - Steve Jobs
(Source: http://devour.com/video/steve-jobs-explains-the-blue-box/ )
"If we hadn't had made blue boxes there would have been no Apple" - Steve Jobs
(Source: http://devour.com/video/steve-jobs-explains-the-blue-box/ )
Yes I agree...
AT&T should be paying here. They can't be trusted to secure our data from hackers.
How come the fine goes to AT&T and not the poor people who are the real victims of this identity theft ?!?!
That's complete nonsense.
I didn't read every single post you made, you were the one that replied to me.
And the second someone starts talking about politics I just stop reading completely.
Yet you continue to say they are only getting 1 year for the rape.
The hacker society is just so full of themselves, saviors of the world they think they are. Most of them live in their own world, too far removed from actual reality and so they start to thing they are so clever and ordained even.