RE: Men Make Plea Deal in MySpace Extortion Case

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 Ok, I'm somewhat of a MySpace newbie...  But can't you simply place some code on your myspace page that would track 
the usual web tracking stuff?  Or can you not run custom code at all on myspace?


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


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Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:34 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Men Make Plea Deal in MySpace Extortion Case

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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.

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More:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070226.wmyspacee0226/B
NStory/Technology/

- ferg


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