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Failbreak: Bloke gets seven years in the clink for trying to hack his friend out of jail
A Michigan fella will spend up to seven years and three months behind bars – for trying to hack government IT systems in the US state to get a friend out of jail. Konrads Voits, 27, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, received the 87-month sentence after he pleaded guilty to one federal charge of damaging a protected computer. He will …
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Monday 30th April 2018 19:47 GMT GBE
7 years for trying to get somebody out a few months early
Somebody forgot to do a risk/reward analysis.
As a general rule, people in county jails are serving sentences less than 12 months. The friend in county is going to be out a _long_ time before his hacker buddy gets out of federal prison.
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Monday 30th April 2018 20:16 GMT DNTP
I shouldn't be thanking this guy
But I will anyway, and here's why: What he did, how it was done, and why he did it are all easily understandable by the working public and can easily be explained to an audience. The how and why of large-scale national news hacks against targets like Equifax or Sony are hard to break down in simple terms for a nontechnical audience, and lets face it- they are boring because finance and corporate espionage are boring.
Opening an educational presentation on IT security with "This is a story about a guy who tried to hack the police to get his friend out of jail, and how he nearly succeeded" gets people's attention. Then they are ready to be taken through how each step was done, how each simple vulnerability was targeted, and how they can recognize these things in the future. Voits deserves to go to prison for sure, but by making the news he gives those of us trying to instill basic computer security measures a great case study.
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Monday 30th April 2018 22:43 GMT Chozo
Re: I shouldn't be thanking this guy
Part of me wants to congratulate the blue team however the ugly truth of it is they got lucky. Had Voits been operating from van parked across the street instead of openly in the coffee shop and the subsequent rooftop farce he could very well of pulled it off.
I'm off to write a script that makes a command shell look like a chat room
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Tuesday 1st May 2018 08:26 GMT Chozo
Re: they look at ALL the paperwork
Having no knowledge about the inner workings of prison admin, intriguing questions abound...
Does a clerk at the prison physically check the original court documents signed in ink by the judge OR do they just log into a web portal and get given lists of prisoners arriving & departing?
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Wednesday 2nd May 2018 22:03 GMT Michael Wojcik
Re: The press releases/statements..
7 years seems a bit much mind.
US prison sentences are hugely inflated, thanks to lobbying and kickbacks by the prison-industrial complex and politicians trying to appeal to the mob. Here it's really best not to get convicted. I recommend being wealthy and white, and associating with the Right Sort of People.
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