Re:‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØ...
by cbcoutinho on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:44AM
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Here's an article about the high school hacker extraordinaire [1]. My favorite line from the article has to be this one from the sergeant:
> We wrote numerous search warrants to get the IP addresses of the possible phishing site email. We got it and we did good old fashioned police detective work and we narrowed it down to an address
Good old fashioned police detective work indeed.
[1] http://www.ktvu.com/news/concord-student-accused-of-hacking-...
Re:‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØ...
by some_account on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:34AM
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Because the American legal system is insane.
Re:‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØ...
by peterwwillis on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:44AM
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Yep. Teenagers who commit benign hacks for fun get more time than murderers. People's lives get ruined for effectively the digital form of trespass. It's pretty fucked up.
Re:‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØ...
by jeffreyrogers on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:37AM
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Do you have a source for people getting more time than murderers for "effectively the digital form of trespass". I agree that some parts of the legal system do not work very well, but I think that's a big exaggeration.
From poring over stuff from this milieu, I figured out how I could change grade records at my school. I never did it, so I don't know what would've happened if I got busted.
Some kid in the Bay Area just got busted for the same and is facing 14 felony charges.
Anyway. This was my first encounter with hacker culture, and it was so brain expanding even though I understood practically none of it. Now, I could barely recount more than the few sentences I just did, but that logo brings up waves of nostalgia.