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Hacker Innocent
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:19 pm
by Tempus
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
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:22 pm
by [PX]IronFist
Apparently this defence has yet to be successful in the US though, so you might be jumping the gun on the hacking career.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:39 pm
by Tempus
mbn is in chicago... thats where the trial was
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:55 pm
by [PX]IronFist
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
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:29 pm
by Tempus
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
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:23 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:40 pm
by Ghost [PX]
Americans = teh stupid
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:36 pm
by [PX] Nebuchadnezzar
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?
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:41 am
by Tempus
yes typoo
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:33 am
by [PX] Nebuchadnezzar
Tempus wrote:yes typoo
ok, but was that a typo?
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 3:38 am
by [PX]IronFist
Homer's BBBQ, the extra B is for BYOBB
What's that extra B for?
It's a typo
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:31 pm
by [PX] Nebuchadnezzar
hahaha he said what I was thinking