Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
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Re: Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
#2Probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't start selling it as a service
Re: Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
#3Probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't start selling it as a service
I thought the same. As ever, most of these people seem to get caught because they get greedy (possibly I've been listening to too many episodes of Darknet Diaries recently).
Re: Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
#4I remember a presentation at DEFCON some years ago on this topic. Most of the state death registration systems had virtually no security or verification at the time. It's probably a stretch to describe this as "hacking" when it was probably more akin to fraudulently filling out a couple of forms.
Re: Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
#5Probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't start selling it as a service
Think so? At some point you'd assume the other parent would be pushing for the payments through some avenue that would lead them to tell her that he's dead.
Re: Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
#6Probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't start selling it as a service
Wouldn't the mother just fill a complain in the court 1 month later to solve it?
Re: Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
#7Looks like he in fact succeeded in avoiding the payments? Like the meme, the task failed successfully. Not sure what happens when he gets out of prison.
Re: Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
#8I remember a presentation at DEFCON some years ago on this topic. Most of the state death registration systems had virtually no security or verification at the time. It's probably a stretch to describe this as "hacking" when it was probably more akin to fraudulently filling out a couple of forms.
The term hacker continues to evolve and spread beyond sql overflow exploits into more mundane social api exploits.
Re: Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
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Re: Dad hacks database to fake death and avoid child support pay
#10Probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't start selling it as a service
Wouldn't the mother just fill a complain in the court 1 month later to solve it?
I assumed that he wasn't in the mother's (or child's) life except for the child support payments link, and therefore planned on her believing him to be dead.
If he was still living near her or even in contact with her then yes, it would seem to be a completely pointless plan to me also.