I'm
not sure he's *that* talented. I mean, he didn't tunnel through to the machines he was aiming at, he didn't clear log files behind himself, and to top it off, he actually conversed with a user at one of the machines (through typing in WordPad in Windows) and used his real email address.

I don't agree with his extradition, but he does sound like a bit of a numpty.

Some of the stuff he missed is hacking-101.
(dchurch bah, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 16:52, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

The us government should consider this a learning experience and try to actually
put a little security on their systems. If this kid could get in, think what a really focused attack could do.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 17:06, Reply)

True
^^^

The should have thanked him, paid him to keep his trap shut to avoid embarrasment and got it fixed!
(dchurch bah, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 17:19, Reply)