Good, now he needs to be given a job with the security services
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:18,
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Hardly - the guy is autistic, the guys at NASA and DoD he were up against probably were as well.
What the US DoD described as the most serious case of computer hacking ever perpetrated comprised of this:
Buying a commercial copy of PCAnywhere (used to remote control PC's) and entering a load of IP addresses allocated to NASA and the US DOD until he found a few boxes running PCAnywhere with no usernames and password's entered.
That's it.
He was only found out after leaving a few notepad files on one of the PC's ranting on about aliens and the like. They looked up the serial number of the PCAnywhere client connected in and the police were able to trace it to his local Dixons/TheLink shop and the purchase to his Barclay card.
It was common enough back then to use PCAnywhere to remote control PC's but less common for anyone not to stick it behind a firewall or at least put a simple username and password on it - in anyone's book that's pretty negligent. If it had ever gone to court NASA and US DoD would have been a laughing stock quite honestly and as a result the Brits decided that there should be no trial. Ten years later the brits once again decided that there should be no trial.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:39,
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pfft. His autism was only diagnosed post-furore.
he's about as autistic as I am.
*arranges pencils into mathematical equation for turning lead into gold*
*fingers cat*
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:47,
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Autistic or not
he basically opened up a command prompt and typed connect 141.116.168.1xx
The computer at the other end let him in and didn't ask for a password or username, just gave him full control over keyboard screen and mouse
It's like walking up to the Whitehouse, knocking on the door and asking for a glass of milk and then some halfwit letting him in and directed him to the Oval office.
You wouldn't lock a fool like that up would you ?? Someone knocking on the door of the whitehouse asking for milk - no you'd probably conclude that he wasn't quite the full shilling and you'd probably sack your head of security wouldn't you? You wouldn't call him a criminal mastermind for getting into the oval office?? Or would you??
In the UK at least we take a dim view of foreigners bullying vulnerable adults particularly if there is a strong case for them wanting to take their own lives as a result. We move heaven and earth to protect people like that over here. It's called common decency
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:53,
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*Scribbles furiously on notepad*
Open command prompt..... type connect 141.116.168.1xx.....
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:59,
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LOL
I think they may have tightened security up a little bit since then.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:01,
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Really?
*Crumples up notes*
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:03,
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