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Men Make Plea Deal in MySpace Extortion Case
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:33:41 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Globe and Mail (AP). [snip] Two young Long Island men accused of trying to extort MySpace.com by developing code to track users pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution. Two counts of attempted extortion and another illegal computer access count were dropped in the deal, which gave the defendants three-year probationary terms. Each had faced up to nearly four years in prison. Shaun Harrison, 19, and Saverio Mondelli, 20, of Suffolk County, were accused of demanding $150,000 (U.S.) as a consulting fee from MySpace. The pair were offering the code as a service on their own website for $29.95 and claimed to be developing an unbreakable version. The popular MySpace social networking site is supposed to offer anonymity, but Mr. Harrison and Mr. Mondelli were offering a means to acquire e-mail addresses and Internet protocol addresses of users, the prosecution said. [snip] More: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070226.wmyspacee0226/B NStory/Technology/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF46aRq1pz9mNUZTMRAvwZAKDDSnt7bi/bdN1Zb+2A6CC/cb9SEACeIKK9 mK8ej5Zwaraa0rnjOKp2AlM= =sbez -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Men Make Plea Deal in MySpace Extortion Case Fergie (Feb 26)
- RE: Men Make Plea Deal in MySpace Extortion Case Blanchard_Michael (Feb 27)