Re:Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of ...
by JohnMakin on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @01:35PM
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What I cannot figure out from this bizarre story was what was even the motivation? Did he just have an early run in with this guy, identified him as a target, maybe had a grudge and then just... stole his identity for 30 years? To do what? Why not get a job under his real name? Why force this guy to assume your ACTUAL name? It's utterly bizarre and one of the weirdest sociopathic things I've heard of in a while.
Re:Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of ...
by mazamats on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @02:42PM
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It's very likely he wouldn't be able to pass a background check himself, so he stole the identity to secure a well-paid job that he couldn't get himself
Re:Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of ...
by kelnos on Thursday April 04, 2024 @11:40PM
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That's the worst part? Just some confusion that "sysadmin" wasn't relevant to the case?
Not the fact that the real Woods was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital and forced to take medication, simply for asserting he was who he actually was?
Not that somehow our justice system thinks "lying to a bank" should be worth 30 years in prison, but stealing someone's identity gives you a mere two years?
C'mon.
But looks like a sysadmin's access wasn't involved in the identity theft, despite what mention in the headline might suggest.
The only sysadmin angle I see on this story is that the identity theft might've (unclear) eventually permitted the perpetrator to pass pre-employment checks to get get some kind of remote sysadmin job at a hospital.
So I guess the relevance to IT (given this is The Register) is that your sysadmin (or DevOps(R) or whatever) people might not be who you they claim to be, in some freak situation of a person who'd get the victim jailed and then committed to a mental asylum...