Krebs Hacker Unmasked, Hit Ars and Wired's Honan 164
altjira writes "Brian Krebs, hot on the tail of the hacker who DDOS his site and SWATted his home, followed up on a tip, found the dox, called and then outed his hacker. Turns out it may have been the same guy who hit Wired's Mat Honan and Ars Technica."
The attacker is ... a 20 year old guy who apparently has too much time on his hands, and was surprisingly careless with his personal information for someone exploiting the personal information of others.
SWATting (Score:5, Interesting)
Given the propensity of the American police responding to that sort of call to shoot first and possibly get round to asking questions a bit later on, SWATting somebody should be charged as attempted murder
Re:SWATting (Score:5, Interesting)
I was on a jury that convicted a man of reckless homicide after a street race ended up in a horrible crash.
So yeah if someone had been shot then a similar charge should apply.
Re:Most Crimes Are Solved (Score:5, Interesting)
I considered crime as a career option when I was young, and decided that it was for losers. Concealing repeated crime would require so much hard work and attention to detail, that anyone qualified to do it is also qualified for a rather high-paying job.
If you think about it, the saying "crime doesn't pay" is just another way of saying the labor market works.
I once spoke with an FBI agent about bak robberies. Most theft from banks is from employees, is almost always caught but rarely prosecuted because banks don't want the negaive publicity. They catch the regular bank robbers because they are careless or stupid or both. But there is a small number of inelligent, skilled bank robers that will never get caught because they know the system well, don't get greedy, don't live flamboyantly and never make mistakes. Fortunately, there are very few of these people, but a succesful life of crime is possible, but as you realized, way too much work.
WTF? Is Krebs For Real? (Score:0, Interesting)
How is any of this possible?
How does Krebs reach, let alone convince that boot.tw operator to give him a copy of their operations database and tell him other details?
How does the boot.tw operator know any of these other details?
I'll accept the anonymous tipster.
Why would, so called, Phobia take Krebs' call? Why would he confess to this stuff? Why would his father engage in the call rather than putting an end to it? Why would his father admit and partially deny Phobia's actions?
Why would ANY of this transpire?
It makes me question Krebs' credibility.
It's all so absolutely fantastic, I feel like I'm watching a hacker movie. The implausibility of it all makes me want to vomit. Yet krebs supposedly does this all the time.