Hacker Innocent

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:19 pm

Taken from MBN
Hacker was released today after a year long trial. The 19 year old who was reponsible for hacking government computer core in 1999 was found not guilty on the grounds that he had no programing knowledge.

He had a hacking program on his computer and that was why he was charged and arrested. Herein lies the rub. He also had several trojans on his computer.

His defence was that he did not install the hacking software and because of the trojans this was a viable defence.

To me this is very dangerous presidence. But i suppose if you wanted to start your hacking careers now is the time

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:22 pm

Apparently this defence has yet to be successful in the US though, so you might be jumping the gun on the hacking career.

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:39 pm

mbn is in chicago... thats where the trial was

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:55 pm

I see. I heard about a similar case to this in another country, the UK I believe. At the time the article said this defense had never been tried in the US. Maybe they used that case as precident for this one.

Link:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20031028/od_uk_nm/oukoe_tech_hacker_defense

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:29 pm

ya this one was on a program 'america's christian computing (something or other i dont know i just listen to the program) and they were talking about how big a mess this ruling is going to create down there

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:23 pm

The 19 year old who was reponsible for hacking government computer core in 1999 was found guilty on the grounds that he had no programing knowledge.

Wait.........he was guilty because he DIDN'T know how to program? I'm confused.

Ghost [PX] · Post by **Ghost [PX]** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:40 pm

Americans = teh stupid

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:36 pm

THE JEW (RaVeN) wrote:
The 19 year old who was reponsible for hacking government computer core in 1999 was found guilty on the grounds that he had no programing knowledge.

Wait.........he was guilty because he DIDN'T know how to program? I'm confused.

I assume that's a typo, am I correct? Tempus?

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:41 am

yes typoo

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:33 am

Tempus wrote:yes typoo

ok, but was that a typo?

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 3:38 am

Homer's BBBQ, the extra B is for BYOBB

What's that extra B for?

It's a typo

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:31 pm

hahaha he said what I was thinking