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Andrew Auernheimer convicted, free weev!
« on: November 26, 2012, 11:21:19 am »
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Andrew Auernheimer, 27, was convicted by a Newark, New Jersey, jury of one count of conspiracy to access the servers without permission, as well as one count of identity theft, said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.

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The defendant faces a maximum five years in prison and $250,000 fine on each count. A co-defendant, Daniel Spitler, pleaded guilty to the same charges in June 2011 and is awaiting sentencing.
Prosecutors said Auernheimer and Spitler were affiliated with Goatse Security, a group of Internet "trolls" that tries to disrupt online content and services.

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It is ironic that a member of Goatse Security will probably be (NWS)goatsed(NWS) in prison by big gay Bubba and/or Ben Dover.

For those who did not know, Goatse Security was a troll famous hacking group. They disclosed a few lulzy vulnerabilities such as the Firefox and Safari XPS attacks.

The conviction in question pertains to how an AT&T server was “hacked”, and by “hacked” I mean publicly available data. All Goatse had to do was provide: an ICC-ID (many of which were posted online by Apple users) and a user agent header from an Ipad to AT&T’s server. The server then responded with an email address if the ICC-ID was valid. They wrote a PHP script to literally brute force possible ICC-IDs until a list of 114,000 confirmed addresses was compiled. AT&T and other third parties were notified and given a copy of the script.

Normally anyone with an ounce of competence would have made a policy to blacklist an IP address based upon a large number of failed login attempts or even based upon traffic. But competent is not a word I would use to describe AT&T.
« Last Edit: November 27, 2012, 06:29:17 am by Distind »
Despite knowing about indoctrination I thought it was a good idea to put a human Reaper near my office. Now I am a sentient husk :(.

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Re: Andrew Auernheimer convicted, free weev!
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2012, 06:30:08 am »
Uh, hell no on the goatse link. I've removed it, don't do it again.