Re: Hacker "Coolio" to work on jail PC's

[Nathan Dorfman <ndorfman () SMALLWORLD COM>]

Oooh. 9 months for defacing two web sites seem a bit extreme to anyone
else? Exactly what monetary loss is incurred by an anti-drug propaganda
site?

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> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5080727.html?tag=lh
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> By The Associated Press
> Special to CNET News.com
> March 9, 2001, 2:00 p.m. PT
>
> CONWAY, N.H. -- A teenage computer hacker who defaced Web sites was
> sentenced Friday to nine months behind bars--and was ordered to help
> program the jail's computers.
>
> Dennis Moran, 18, who went by the online name Coolio, broke into an
> anti-drug Web site and another site operated by an Internet security
> company. The anti-drug site was defaced with pro-drug slogans and
> images, including one of Donald Duck with a hypodermic syringe in his
> arm.
>
> Prosecutors have said Moran also hacked into Web sites for four
> military bases but never saw any of their classified material.
>
> Moran, who was a 17-year-old high school dropout when he committed the
> crimes, pleaded guilty in January to misdemeanor charges of hacking.
>
> He was also ordered to pay each victim $5,000.
>
> The break-in at the anti-drug site occurred at about the same time as
> major disruptions of sites such as Yahoo and eBay. Moran allegedly had
> bragged about those attacks but later said he had only been joking. A
> Canadian teenager was later charged with disrupting eBay and Yahoo.

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