Confessed Botnet Master Is a Security Professional 278
An anonymous reader writes "John Schiefer, the Los Angeles security consultant who in last 2007 admitted wielding a 250,000-node botnet to steal bank passwords, sometimes from work, says he's spent the past 15 months working as a professional in the security scene while awaiting sentencing. Prosecutors are pushing for a five-year sentence, noting the exceptional threat he represented to society."
Proofreading? What's that? :p (Score:1, Funny)
Doesn't ANYBODY bother proofreading these things before they're posted to the main page??!? This is a simple mistake, but let's face it folks, there have been GLARING errors before. A little professionalism, please? KTHXBYE
BANKSTER wannabe (Score:5, Funny)
He should have worked in finance. There it's expected for you to loot the company safe and walk away with billions of dollars. Leaving a burning building behind you taxpayers footing the bill for cleaning it up is absolutely expected. Big career path mistake on his part. Perhaps while in prison he can study for his MBA and open a hedge fund on release.
"in last 2007" (Score:5, Funny)
As opposed to the 2007 before that?
the past 15?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh my God! Only the past 15?!? I've already spent the past 120 perusing slashdot.
Hint: qualifiers matter.
Re:Proofreading? What's that? :p (Score:4, Funny)
A little professionalism, please? KTHXBYE
I don't even know what to do with that...
insanity defense .. (Score:5, Funny)
Bastard... (Score:2, Funny)
Two of my friends were gang-raped by botnets.
From your Friendly Security Professional (Score:5, Funny)
My professional opinion is that Internet Explorer is a fast, reliable, and safe web browsing platform.
Also, make sure ActiveX is turned on. It's important for your safety.
Re:Substantial Threat to Society? (Score:5, Funny)
According to /. logic, if she didn't want to be raped, she should have closed her ports.
Re:This should come as no surprise (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure every shoe salesman reading this knows exactly what you're on about.
Fixed it (Score:3, Funny)
"Quit being a bitch and claim it," Schiefer told an juvenile apprentice named Adam, according to court documents.
How the tables turn. Now it's Schiefer who's going to be told, "You're my bitch now, I claimed it".
-[d]-
Re:BURN HIM! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Your official guide to the Jigaboo presidency (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Being sexually abused is a mitigating factor? (Score:5, Funny)
His future is going to look a lot like his past, then.
Re:You really want a rape analogy? (Score:5, Funny)
I'd view it more like raping someone with learning difficulties. Windows boxes often just don't have the capacity to say no or understand that what their doing might be wrong, they just lack that sort of basic awareness.
So it's more a case of someone asks a nice man for a lollipop but due to using Windows they can't tell if the man is really nice or indeed if that's really a lollipop.
Re:Proofreading? What's that? :p (Score:3, Funny)
consultant who in last 2007 ...
As opposed to the 2007 before that? Or next 2007?
Re:BANKSTER wannabe (Score:2, Funny)
I just did. I still don't believe why people like Richard Fuld and Bernard Madoff aren't in prisons yet. If people like those can be forgiven, then almost any criminal can be forgiven, save murderers.
Re:BURN HIM! (Score:5, Funny)
no a small netgear 8 port router with all the cables plugged in we 8 ports + 1wan = cat-o-9 tails :D
Re:BURN HIM! (Score:4, Funny)
What is reminding him of high-school supposed to achieve?
Re:Substantial Threat to Society? (Score:3, Funny)
To further this analogy, here is the clothing that was designed by microsoft to protect her from all external access. [feelpretty.com] NSFW... :D
Re:BURN HIM! (Score:5, Funny)
holy mangled syntax, batman! (Score:5, Funny)
"John Schiefer, the Los Angeles security consultant who in last 2007 admitted wielding a 250,000-node botnet to steal bank passwords, sometimes from work, says he's spent the past 15 months working as a professional in the security scene while awaiting sentencing.
Even worse, I hear the submitter has been working the past 15 months as a professor of English language while awaiting sentencing for negligent grammarcide.
Re:"I'm not saying that they're right (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's not shoe salesman vs IT, it's "one of us" (Score:3, Funny)
You have to account for people going rogue. Redundancy, verification and limited power are the way to security, not hiring a wizard.
Why not multiclass? You get the dex bonus to armor and all the other benefits of both classes!
what? (Score:1, Funny)
you've never heard of a blade server?
Re:BANKSTER wannabe (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotters have alts?
What, were you bored with your original account and decided to roll a shammy?