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No, the real life equivalent of what he did would be giving some teenagers unsupervised access to the office copy machine. It wasn't bright, but it doesn't soun
by rch 11y ago
No, the real life equivalent of what he did would be giving some teenagers unsupervised access to the office copy machine. It wasn't bright, but it doesn't sound like a life-defining felony.
- danso 11y agoWhat? Read the chat transcript recorded in the search warrant [page 41+]: http://www.laweekly.com/news/matthew-keys-helped-anonymous-hack-los-angeles-times-website-feds-allege-4175127 http://www.laweekly.com/news/matthew-keys-helped-anonymous-h... How can you believe that giving a group of anonymous people you suspect to be hackers a username/password, then telling them that it's superuser access, then giving them the admin URLs, then giving them the URL to the user manuals for the console, then creating them new accounts...is the same scope as letting a bunch of teens use your "office copy machine"? (unless your company's business is literally the copy machine...I suppose)
- rch 11y agoI just pulled up the Los Angeles Times, and something literally resembling a copy-scan-fax machine plugged directly into a Wordpress site comes to mind. In reading the transcript, it's clear this person deserves to be punished according to the maximum penalties prescribed by the applicable laws. It is not as clear to me that the laws being applied accurately reflect the harm incurred, or even the potential for harm given the nature of the compromised system.