Well, that's one idea. Just smash all the evidence.
According to a recent report in The Columbus Dispatch , a 23-year-old man suspected of assisting with the 2008 attack on the PlayStation Network has been sentenced to house arrest for one year.
If that seems like an awfully light sentence, that's because the sentence has nothing to do with the hacking itself. It seems Todd M. Miller (who only completed school up to the ninth grade), was sentenced for obstructing a federal investigation. After the FBI spoke with Miller in 2011, they returned to his home to find that all the computers had been destroyed, including the information they probably needed that was stored on hard drives. So there wasn't enough evidence to pursue the hacking charges, unfortunately.
During his hearing, Miller told judge Peter C. Economus that he was just "immature and ignorant" and that he got "caught up with the wrong people." Economus sentenced him to three years probation and ordered him to pursue a high school equivalency certification. …you know, I'm sorry, but I always knew these people were under-educated, egocentric morons.
Ben,
Even though he is an under-educated, egocentric moron, he possesses computer skills far beyond my wheelhouse, and I have some college education, so he gets a touché from me.
That isn't to say that I don't want to flatten his face a little with my fists for playing his part in ruining some of the free time I spend gaming.
Last edited by JROD0823 on 5/13/2013 10:52:35 PM
If anything, it proves that you don't need a long education to become really good at something.
That said, I'm not sure how good you needed to be to hack the PSN network. The more I heard about it the more I got the impression the security were *really* badly built and poorly maintained. It's not hard to steal a car if you leave the keys in the door.
Still, I'm pretty sure this guy knows more about computing than most of us.
Last edited by Beamboom on 5/14/2013 2:00:30 AM
Yeah, sorry, none of that impresses me.
He does sound a bit unsophisticated, don't real hackers have software-based file shredding emergency measures?
I don't think he expected to be found. lol
Then he was bad at his hobby.
Unfortunately, most hackers cant really do much against whats known as garbage files, which is why he smashed the hard drives.
A nice big magnet would do the trick.
They should put him in an anti-metal Magneto jail
Wow. He put a company, their customers and their customers' financial information at risk and all he gets is a year house arrest.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore. 🙁
Right lol
Evidence. It's what the civil world require in order to sentence someone.
Beam's right. Considering what they had to work with (or the lack thereof), its probably a credit to the prosecutors for even getting that much.
According to the article's title, they already knew it was evidence. So they knew he was destroying it. That's enough "evidence" to get him locked up for years.
Yeah, I thought a conviction on obstruction charges got you automatic jail time, not house arrest.
Wrong fellas, you can walk into a police precinct and admit to murder but if there's no evidence to present in court then you can't go to jail for it. Just because you don't like someone for what you think they did doesn't mean you can be judge, jury, and executioner.
So now he gets to sit at home and play Playstation for the next year.
Sounds like a reward.
sounds like a scared fool