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2003-11-14 Home Front
US hacker sentenced for Al Jazeera attack
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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 For his community service I think he should infiltrate as many terrorist web-sites as possible and turnover all the information he can gather to the FBI.
Posted by Super Hose  2003-11-14 8:54:54 AM||   2003-11-14 8:54:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 They should deduct the time he spent hacking into Al-Jizz from the sentence. That was community service if I ever saw it.
Posted by Dar  2003-11-14 9:33:20 AM||   2003-11-14 9:33:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think that Super Hose has a grand idea. Maybe he should suggest it to the FBI?
Posted by rabidfox 2003-11-14 9:34:28 AM||   2003-11-14 9:34:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Pardon me, but didn't al'Jazeera admit to letting terrorists use their offices for planning?

I'm with Dar; what he did WAS community service.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2003-11-14 9:39:29 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2003-11-14 9:39:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Assume, just for the sake of argument, that the Feds already have hacking operations set up, not to post patriotic stuff on bad guy websites, but to collect information. Would you want an outsider, an amateur with great muddy boots and a loud voice, tromping in and drawing attention to the system's vulnerabilities, many of which you may have exploited yourself?

If I was the Feds, and if I didn't have such operations up and running, I'd expect to be fired, because I wouldn't be doing my job.
Posted by Fred  2003-11-14 9:49:10 AM||   2003-11-14 9:49:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Fred, we're talking about the modern CIA and FBI here. The CIA swore they couldn't get anyone into al'Qaeda -- never mind the Marin County dipshit that got in. And the FBI seems to have an unwritten rule requiring them to screw up terrorism cases.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2003-11-14 10:51:46 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2003-11-14 10:51:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems that he has the asymetrical warfare thing down. So, why doesn't the DIA/NSA/CIA hire this guy? Heart seems to be in the right place.
Posted by Sean  2003-11-14 11:48:25 AM|| [www.haarsager.com]  2003-11-14 11:48:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Dammit, Fred, do you have to go and spoil this by bringing logic into it?

That is a very good point you made. If they were so naive to give this guy the info he needed, there were likely some spook hackers with their fingers in Al-Jizz's files way before this. Now AJ has probably spent some good time and money to close their previously wide-open doors.
Posted by Dar  2003-11-14 3:53:16 PM||   2003-11-14 3:53:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Bravo John Buffo! If at all possible I'd like to do 100 hours of your community service for the community service you provided.
Posted by Mike  2003-11-14 4:26:59 PM||   2003-11-14 4:26:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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