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Let there be no mistake about it: they were/are to build a case against him. Simply telling your co-workers about a hack that you could have easily made up to
by downandout 12y ago
Let there be no mistake about it: they were/are to build a case against him. Simply telling your co-workers about a hack that you could have easily made up to impress them isn't even enough evidence for a search warrant, let alone an arrest. The fact that he played into the not-so-clever ruse that DHS used on him so naively is a perfect example of the difference between intellectual and real-world intelligence. Any 10 year old from a bad neighborhood would have known not to say anything to the agents, yet he sat there, with his family looking on, essentially saying "yes, please take away my future" with every word he said and wrote.
On a side note...
>He also has dabbled with other “black hat” hacks, such as code that allowed him to win Web auctions with low-ball bids.
This was mentioned in passing, but it would be interesting to find out what technique he claims to have used to accomplish this.
- eli 12y agoSounds like run of the mill "bid sniping" software, designed to bid on an auction at the last possible millisecond. (The thinking being that auctions with existing bids attract other bids.)
- downandout 12y agoYou may be right - it didn't really include enough details to judge, but based upon the nature of his other activities I was thinking his technique might have been more intriguing. Who knows. When he is arrested maybe it will come out in court documents.
- walshemj 12y agoIf your working with a SC clearance in a sensitive cybersecuity job boasting about hacking is definatly grounds for a warrant.
- Buge 12y agoOne way I thought of to win penny auctions on sites such as quibids, is to find the IP addresses of your opponents and DDOS them. But I don't know of any way to do the first step through quibids.