Absolutely not. Any computer connected to the internet, even behind a firewall / NAT / etc. is considered to be involved in interstate or foreign commerce and thus a "protected computer" subject to 18 USC 1030. It's not your actions that make it a protected computer. 1030(e)(2)
Yeah. I’m not a lawyer, I just know what the FBI told me when they picked me up. I was turned over to the regular police and then let go. I was just a teen at the time, things could have changed.
Yeah. I’m not a lawyer, I just know what the FBI told me when they picked me up. I was turned over to the regular police and then let go. I was just a teen at the time, things could have changed.
Cops are allowed to lie. And they do. Often.
They wanted to throw the book at me. Trust me. They were quite pissed.
I'm only aware that documents were circulating saying that, but now that I'm searching around, I think the best details are here: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_purported_HIV_medical_... Conclusion is that the documents shouldn't be taken at face value... so maybe not? However, if he was HIV+ I can totally see why it would be covered up. I guess it's a big question mark, but it's not unbelievable.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories about AIDS, and in the case like the death of Steve Jobs I guess this sort of rumor is bolstered by the fact that a lot of people hid their diagnosis due to stigma. Jobs was famously very focused on image. But I think most of that stigma was gone by 2010.
The stigma is most definitely not gone with the exception of the gay community, and maybe younger folks. If Jobs had AIDS and hid it, it wouldn't be a shock, but I think it would be a contributing factor to disinformation as most people believe the pancreatic cancer happened on its own and was exacerbated by his alternate treatments.
Mitnick was a hacker hero of mine in my youth. I think I’ve understood his role as jester prior to conviction less as I’ve grown older, but there’s something about the boyhood charm of being so divorced from the potential consequences of one’s actions that is almost unique. Mitnick had so many stories that entranced the people around him. I heard one second hand of Mitnick dealing with a bank who had early voice veri…
He has the CEO’s number and successfully calls him, and through some miracle gets through directly to ask this trivial question — as opposed to getting the number from the assistant who answers his phone - sure ok but then under what pretense does he then ask him to repeat his phone number? “Please repeat the phone number I just dialed.” The phone number contains all the digits needed to recreate the bank account num…
«Can you see the number I’m calling from? Just to make sure, could you read it aloud to me. Slowly, please. … Thanks, yes it’s correct.»
> How would he have known the CEO's bank account number? Welcome to the american banking system.
The european bank account numbers are often posted publicly. If you are a VAT payer, you're supposed to check that the account you send money to is registered with the business in the public registry. Otherwise you may be held liable for the receiver's tax fraud. Many companies also show them at their webpage to make it easier to get paid. See e.g. https://www.pre.cz/en/contacts/bank-details/ The account number shoul…
> The account number should be just an ID, not authentication mechanism.
> fake their own death to engineer access to something Care to elaborate?
what is there to elaborate, other than pointing out that he was good at social engineering things and finding behavioral or procedural loopholes to get access to systems?
I'm referring to the insinuation about faking his own death.
I might not be up to speed with a particular instance of that in his life though. Perhaps that's where my lack of understanding stems from.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories about AIDS, and in the case like the death of Steve Jobs I guess this sort of rumor is bolstered by the fact that a lot of people hid their diagnosis due to stigma. Jobs was famously very focused on image. But I think most of that stigma was gone by 2010.
The stigma is most definitely not gone with the exception of the gay community, and maybe younger folks. If Jobs had AIDS and hid it, it wouldn't be a shock, but I think it would be a contributing factor to disinformation as most people believe the pancreatic cancer happened on its own and was exacerbated by his alternate treatments.
Well the other thing is, if he got a positive test in 2006, he'd be on anti-retrovirals and wouldn't have died of it. He had money and access to good doctors. It's rare for someone like him to die of AIDS complications.
I was not aware he was ill. Always sad to hear people that are taken by cancer. I didn't know Kevin, but am friends with Tsutomu Shimomura who worked with authorities to get him arrested. Tsutomu worked with me a bit when I was at Sun trying to get a cryptographically secure subsystem into the base system specification. It was fun to listen to his side of this story. The 80's was a really weird time for computer enth…
As a result we got the CFAA and the DMCA which are both some of the most ridiculous pieces of legislation after the so called "patriot" act. The damage that did to curious people growing up lost the US a significant fraction of their upcoming "innovation" talent. While not diminishing the folks who leaned in to the illegality of it.
I was escorted out of my job as a shipping clerk in 1999 for creating an entry in an NT 4.0 group with my name in it to impress the IT Admin so I could get a job in the computer department.