Naturally when things happen in popular news and media its always 'blown out of proportion' or they 'make someone out to be a bad guy'. However under the Patriot act (Passed shortly after 9/11) the act of 'Hacking' was deemed to be an act of terrorism, and many forms of hacking / CC fraud had their minimum sentence raised from a mere slap on the wrist / probation, (see Mafia_Boy for example) to a Stunning 10 year mandatory sentence, with no chance of parole. Since 'hacking' into a educational database is considered an act of terrorism against a public institution, wouldn't conspiring to do so also be a federal crime? Wouldn't hiring someone to do such things make the party guilty of conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism against a public university?
Well not if your in the republican party. An amazing prank has been pulled against republican press aide Todd Shriber by the folks at attrition.org. The Prank is summed up as follows; Todd Shriber most likely did a 'blind Google-ing' for a 'hacking website' and came across 'attrition.org'. Attrition.org is one of the more popular websites in the 'hacking underground'; their claim to fame was from years ago when they used to host mirrors of defaced websites, which if i recall they discontinued doing in early - mid 2003. However the website remained a popular hub for the 'dark' security discussion that most people brand as 'hacking'. After finding this website Todd Shriber sends an email to one of the Administrators of the site, asking over the course of many emails if he could hire a hacker to alter his G.P.A. Jericho, One of the administrators at attrition.org had him answer a variety of questions (i.e. are there pigeons at the campus?) most of which were outlandish and would have sent most people on their way, and eventually got him to send over his student I.D. his SSN, and his full name. Rather then doing the clandestine act of stealing the gullible guys identity and running amok with it, they took the highroad and claimed to get caught and published the whole thing (sub the ssn/ student i.d.) on their website.
( mirrored here )
If you or i were to be caught doing this you can say; with a relative level of certainty that you would be charged with a crime (conspiring to commit an act of terrorism? ). But not in this case, it seems as though the only punishment that Todd will be getting is the loss of his job.(source: ). Is it really okay for the man NOT to get charged with a crime in this instance, he has admitted his guilt and lost his job.
I ask you, the people of the world at large, should the republicans harbor this 'terrorist' (by President bush's own words, this man is a terrorist), and protect him from legal process. Or; conversely should this man have to pay the price for his actions.
Discuss.
sources used:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9999 - news article
http://www.googlethedamnthing.com/mirror/idiot_hack/ - mirror of events that had transpired at attrition.rog
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/10015 - Shriber fired
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Does the punishment always fit the crime? Absolutely not! Imagine an elementary school teacher having an illicit affair with one of his pupils... a 12 year old girl. He would be strung up by his testicles. However when it is a woman teacher who gives head to a 12 year old boy, they get probation.
Some of this may just be rant tho... which is what blogging is anyways... since there is never justice for the privileged few... it is all based on monetary and political gain. Had it not been for a really good defense lawyer who helped me out "pro bono," I would have been convicted long ago of crimes I never even committed, just based out of spite from my accusers. Eh... fuk em all. I'm tired of being a conspiracy theorist.
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