Mitnick Helps Bust Bomb Hoaxer 403
PhrostyMcByte writes "According to The Register/SecurityFocus: 'Ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick is a hero to the small town of River Rouge, Michigan, after using his tech skills to help officials nab the culprit behind a harrowing series of bomb threats.'" According to the piece, Detective Lt. John Keck "began searching the Internet for technical guidance, which led him to Kevin Mitnick, who'd earlier demonstrated a technique for spoofing Caller ID on the specialty cable network TechTV." Mitnick's comment on the bomb hoaxer? "He wasn't really hacking... he was really just being a jerk."
hacker... (Score:5, Informative)
hacker
n 1: someone who plays golf poorly 2: a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers 3: one who works hard at boring tasks
Straight from Dictionary.com
Re:The "in crowd" gets slap-on-wrist (Score:5, Informative)
Same school, same year, kid borrows a laptop from the school for a weekend as he'd done for months, but this time didn't sign out for it correctly. Suspended and grades withheld. There you go. Borrowing a laptop without proper authorisation is a worse crime than rape in School Land.
(not to mention the ridiculousness of the logical conclusion that if you date one person you could be consenting to have forced violent sex with all their friends)
Re:SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB (Score:4, Informative)
Someone set up us the bomb.
Re:Hi-tech means to cover his tracks. (Score:3, Informative)
Grumble grumble (Score:4, Informative)
And psychopaths like this always think they're being bullied. That's because they're fucking paranoid and crazy. It's certainly not that kids are inherently paranoid and crazy. Yes, we need to pay more attention to children, but not because they're a threat.
Ugh. I hope that's just the cop mentality speaking. I hope most people don't actually think like that "Keck" guy.
Re:The "in crowd" gets slap-on-wrist (Score:5, Informative)
The laptop signout could not have been prosecuted by the state, as no crime was committed. He broke school rules (accidently or not) and suffered the consequences.
Nothing in your comment really gets to the point you are trying to make, that popular kids get slaps on the wrist and unpopular kids get leg irons. I don't doubt it happens, but pick more analogous circumstances if you really want to make a case.
-Adam
Re:who is this? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The "in crowd" gets slap-on-wrist (Score:1, Informative)
Re:The "in crowd" gets slap-on-wrist (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hi-tech means to cover his tracks. (Score:2, Informative)
(Note: it can take several days to fetch all the CDRs required to trace a offline call -- an active call can be traced in seconds (w/appropriate telco cooperation.) The more telcos involved, the bigger the pain.)
Re:Schools in texas are ran by idiots. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Humm.... (Score:2, Informative)
[While I've never been part of a "fraud department", I have worked along side them. I was part of the "committee" (if 4 people count as a committee) drafting the guidelines for handling law enforcement requests: CSRs are to transfer calls from LEAs to the fraud department the instant they know they aren't asking about their own phone service; do not log or discuss calls from LEAs.]
Re:The "in crowd" gets slap-on-wrist (Score:4, Informative)
You keep talking about the "in crowd" and schools and stuff, and Jon Katz'll hear you and come back.
Oh sweet Jesus, I've said his name. We're doomed. DOOMED!!
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Mando
Re:It's a legal issue. (Score:2, Informative)
Most rapes are NOT falsely reported (Score:4, Informative)
Furthermore, the situations you described with your frat could very well have been rapes. In most, if not all, states, intoxicated individuals can't give consent to have sex, and thus having sex with them is rape. The fact that the DAs didn't end up bringing charges means next to nothing. The level of proof that is needed to get a conviction in a rape case is enormous; a survivor usually has to have some kind of physical evidence. Many times, this will be washed away by the time she decides to go to the police, leaving only the opposing statements of the rapist and his victem.
Regardless of all that, please remeber that one of the most damaging things that you can do to a survivor of rape or sexual assault who discloses to you is to not believe them. Our culture already puts tons of shame and guilt them, so it's a huge deal to come out and admit to being a survivor. They are, in the vast majority of the time, telling the truth. And even if they're not, that's for the police to decide. You should just be supportive. Or just shut up and say nothing.
Re:The "in crowd" gets slap-on-wrist (Score:4, Informative)
Been raped, been there, done that, dragged to a house next door to the place I was visiting and held down while a filthbucket got off inside and all over me.
His defense was we'd both been drinking and it was consensual, and that was enough for him to get off completely free.
I hadn't had a drink. I'd never met the guy before he showed up. It's all too easy for the little boy's club who want to stick their dicks where they don't belong to make excuses for him.
Re:The "in crowd" gets slap-on-wrist (Score:1, Informative)
About the laptop signout, I completely agree with what you are saying.
About the rape charges, this is a legal grey area. While you are correct about the rape charges being the jurisdiction of the state. But you are wrong in saying that the school can not legally punish the kids for this crime. What brings the case under the jurisdicition of the school, is the fact that the rape allegations are between several male students and one female student from the same school. If the students were all from different schools, then the school would have absolutely no jurisidiction. The fact that the students are from the same school does change this though.
If a kid is caught smoking pot in the privacy of this home. The school would have no jurisdiction. Assuming of course, he is not an athelete, as most schools have some student athelete agreement which essentially becomes a legal contract.
Re:Mitnick Speaks In Third Person (Score:4, Informative)
The book [amazon.com] was much better than the movie, IMHO.