Microsoft Tricks Hacker Into Jail 284
CompotatoJ writes "Wired News reported that William 'IllWill' Genovese was sentenced to prison after being tricked by a Microsoft Investigator offering to pay $20 for a copy of the secret source code. From the article: 'The investigator then returned and arranged a second $20 transaction for an FBI agent, which led to Genovese's indictment under the U.S. Economic Espionage Act, which makes it a felony to sell a company's stolen trade secrets ... [Microsoft] has also expressed fears that making its source code public could allow hackers to find security holes in Microsoft products -- though, so far, intruders are doing fine without the source.'"
$200? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Summary wrong, $20 not $200 (Score:5, Funny)
electronic monitoring (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like they have finally found a legal use for the Sony Rootkit.
Crown Jewels! (Score:5, Funny)
Come on - anybody can code up a BSOD if they really want to.
Should Mark from sysinternals [sysinternals.com] be worried?
heh, microsoft monopoly (Score:5, Funny)
This is sooo untrue! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Summary wrong, $20 not $200 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:$200? (Score:5, Funny)
M$ (Score:4, Funny)
In related news... (Score:2, Funny)
Hacker outsmarted by Microsoft? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Semantics... (Score:5, Funny)
Really? Would she be interested in selling it? Please, speak a little louder...
Re:Semantics... (Score:5, Funny)
After reading this I became curious and checked my dog's bedding, and sure enough I found a copy of the Microsoft source code.
Re:$200? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Available on P2P? (Score:4, Funny)
See, you're supposed to defend yourself before you're sent to prison.
Apple (Score:5, Funny)
Google doesn't trick people into jail.
After drinking Steve Jobs' koolaid, people would
voluntarity go & get themselves arrested, if Jobs
asked them to. And would even pay daily board &
food charges at the jail.
Re:Crown Jewels! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Available on P2P? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:electronic monitoring (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Story from a first-person perspective (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Available on P2P? (Score:5, Funny)
See, you're supposed to post first before anyone else can.
Re:Crown Jewels! (Score:3, Funny)
Dammit!