miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
May 10 2006, 10:48 AM
According to recent news on Wired.Com, Jeanson James Ancheta a 21 year old hacker was sentenced to almost 5 years behind the bars in federal prison. Apparently he infected well over 400,000 system belonging to China Lake Naval Air Facility and the Defense Information System Agency headquartered in Falls Church, Va and used them to setup a massive botnet which he could lease out to third parties to use for mass spamming and further hacking. QUOTE(Wired.Com)
"Your worst enemy is your own intellectual arrogance that somehow the world cannot touch you on this," U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner told Ancheta in sentencing him Monday to 57 months in prison.
He seems to have bagged a pretty sizable profit from his widespread activities over 2004-05. The estimated figure is well over $107,000. Full Story: Wired.Com
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WEEE!!
May 10 2006, 11:26 AM
Naval Air Facility  I played Command and Conquer Generals before, but I never thought anyone would do such a thing... Incredible.. Oh I mean, insubordinate. 
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xboxrulz
May 10 2006, 11:34 AM
wow, for 5 years just to crack into a site, not really that amazing. Yet, he did deserve it since it is breaking into property, cyber or not. xboxrulz
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pyost
May 10 2006, 11:47 AM
That's cracker  The news is rather good, but the whole situation isn't. This one is a small fish, and there are many others. Those others are even more threatening because they make viruses that spread through the internet and infect everyone - but they are untouchable (the crackers), it's very hard to arrest them. Maybe the law should try a bit more to catch those guys, and only after that to catch the ones that attack a certain are of the network. I'm not saying that it should be forgotten, I'm only saying that a crashed system network = mess and crashed internet = catastrophe.
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Jeigh
May 10 2006, 12:06 PM
The law doesn't want to catch virus makers or else there would be less viruses and the anti-virus security market would crash before its time... er... um... I mean they just can't find them... But yea I'm always kind of glad when someone gets caught pulling this stuff. It's just asking for trouble when you start doing things of this nature. Serves em right.
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Dismonic
May 10 2006, 12:38 PM
all i got to say is... ANOTHERONE BITES THE DUST! 
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Sarah81
May 10 2006, 03:25 PM
QUOTE(miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG @ May 10 2006, 05:48 AM) 
Apparently he infected well over 400,000 system belonging to China Lake Naval Air Facility and the Defense Information System Agency headquartered in Falls Church, Va and used them to setup a massive botnet which he could lease out to third parties to use for mass spamming and further hacking.
He seems to have bagged a pretty sizable profit from his widespread activities over 2004-05. The estimated figure is well over $107,000.
You know...until I got to the part about this guy leasing the hacked systems to mass spammers, I actually felt the tiniest bit sorry for the creep. But then I read that part and wondered if five years is really a long enough sentence for anybody who helps make massive amounts of spam possible.
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ganeshn11
May 10 2006, 06:07 PM
QUOTE(pyost @ May 10 2006, 12:47 PM) That's cracker Yeah, thats right that guy who CRACKED into an government owned system is a cracker and not a hacker. A hacker is a person who ethically hacks into systems, I mean to say hackers are appointed by companies to test their security, so that a cracker does'nt crack and steal all the sensitive information or in other words hackers is a guy/gal who has a lot of knowledge in computers, he like a CyberGuru. QUOTE(Jeigh @ May 10 2006, 01:06 PM)
The law doesn't want to catch virus makers or else there would be less viruses and the anti-virus security market would crash before its time... er... um... I mean they just can't find them...
I dont know how much I am saying is true but I have heard some rumors telling that anti-virus and security companies themselves make virus and other malacious programs, so I think its ok if the law catches all the virus makers because the anti-virus companies themselves make virii to keep them in the market.
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sparx
May 12 2006, 05:32 AM
I'm glad to see that some people here know the intellectual difference between a white-hat hacker and a cracker. Similar skills used in different ways. It's the old perennial good v/s evil story...
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surfermac
Sep 5 2009, 01:38 PM
Ya why go illegal when he could go legal
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HannahI
Nov 6 2009, 08:47 PM
Well, there's nothing we can do about it now. 
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H.O.D.
Nov 6 2009, 02:37 PM
You know...reading articles like these, some people will actually get encouraged to do hacking. They take it up as a challenge and try to beat the system by creating more powerful viruses and malware. There will be more people who will do crimes like this in order to earn money illegally and flood the internet with spam. They all have the same goal in mind - to avoid being caught for the maximum time possible. This is how the crackers' mind really works - always taking up so-called "challenges" and doing crimes, all for nothing As for the punishment, I think it won't do any good by throwing him into prison. All he will do is build a stronger plan to get back as soon as he releases  I think the best punishment would be to ensure that the person doesn't get access to a computer for the rest of his life. That way it would be safe for all around that person
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Curt200518
Sep 11 2009, 06:32 AM
wow...my opinion is hacking any government places is completely stupid....im this fact played a huge impact on his sentencing....if he hacked non-government related systems his sentence my have not been as steep...but who knows.. sucks alot for this guy, and not nearly worth $104,000 for 5 years of your life... Im sure he will learn his lesson later
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