Canis lupus
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Well atleast they broke up the hacker ring, how many more of them are charged?
Why people are so confused about smashing entire PC not only HDD ?
He needed to destroy his shortcuts on monitor.
/s
As someone suggested i would put other HDD with full encryption and ton of cat pics.
OR
some smart script to create bilion folders with randomly generated files in them with randomly generated size of them. Each of folder would also include cat photo.
Too much work compared to hack 'n smash.
Zero fill data wipes take hours. He should have been using encryption.
Hurray for criminals! Way to go man!
I still don't get how he'd even be convicted of obstruction, though. He destroyed his property before the warrant was served, right? Destroying your own property is not a crime.
"I sold them to help pay for my legal costs"All that really matters is that he destroyed the hard drives while knowing that they would be used in some official proceeding later on down the line. Given how the FBI interviewed him specifically in regards to computer use, it would be a very tough argument to say that he was just destroying his own property just because.
You'd hope that some body that hacked into Sony computers would be more tech savvy.
Yeah these arguments are incredibly dumb. Like keeping a murder weapon that you could in theory clean well enough to hopefully usurp forensics teams who have years of experience.What he did is the tech savvy thing to do. Especially if he didn't have much time beforehand.
neh, the context overpowers whatever statement you try to twist it into
can't believe no one beat me to it
So they came in it was like:
-Are you hacking something right there? Because we don't like people hacking things!
-No sir, no hacking is being done
-Okay! We will be back to make sure, but don't smash those computers or anything because we won't have any proof if we find out you were hacking !
Yeah these arguments are incredibly dumb. Like keeping a murder weapon that you could in theory clean well enough to hopefully usurp forensics teams who have years of experience.
That takes hours for a large drive.
Realistically he's on the FBI shit list for LIFE. He didn't get off free & clear. There's obvious and clear suspicion (smashing your stuff to hide evidence) which easily warrants him being closely monitored.
The moment he does something on a computer which crosses a line he's toast.
He still screwed himself into being monitored for a long time to come. NOT a position you want to be in as a professional in the field.
You're going to house arrest a hacker?
Genius. Utterly genius.
Miller, who has a ninth-grade education, told the judge that he was “immature and ignorant and caught up with the wrong people at the wrong time” when he destroyed the computers.
He said he has learned his lesson.
“You will not see me again,” he told Economus.
The judge also sentenced him to three years probation and ordered him to get his high-school equivalence certificate.
I'm sure there will be restrictions on his computer use.
He should be smart enough to run DBAN on the drives to overwrite them instead of playing his hand that he destroyed the drives. Anything over 3 wipe passes is pretty much irrecoverable.
What a coward, lol.
Physically destroying them is really the only way to be 100% sure the data is destroyed.
What a coward, lol.
What a coward, lol.
Recuva 4 lifeIt's not hard to recover data from a formatted hard drive, there is a whole area of computer science called computer forensics that deals with recovering tampered data.
Yeah people like us we ain't ascared of prison.
Can't do the time? Don't do the crime.
He obviously was brave enough to hack PSN or whatever he did, given that he felt it was necessary to destroy his harddrives and computers.
A innocent person wouldn't have done that. And more importantly, I'm pretty sure none of us would have liked to go to prison but we shouldn't exactly be going about things like that without any fear of consequence.
Kind of makes it unfair for the felon who killed someone, then expected to get off scott free by hiding the body.
Would people like in this thread be saying "smart". Probably not, since its the wrong thing to do.
Only difference is, this is the entertainment industry and most wouldn't consider it as severe as killing someone.
Regardless, these sort of actions should be condemned. Sure some may consider its putting some nameless corporation in their place but it also did a lot of damage in various ways.
He might be responsible for leaking thousands of personal information. That does not equate to downloading anything.
Can't do the time? Don't do the crime.
He obviously was brave enough to hack PSN or whatever he did, given that he felt it was necessary to destroy his harddrives and computers.
A innocent person wouldn't have done that. And more importantly, I'm pretty sure none of us would have liked to go to prison but we shouldn't exactly be going about things like that without any fear of consequence.
Kind of makes it unfair for the felon who killed someone, then expected to get off scott free by hiding the body.
Would people like in this thread be saying "smart". Probably not, since its the wrong thing to do.
Only difference is, this is the entertainment industry and most wouldn't consider it as severe as killing someone.
Regardless, these sort of actions should be condemned. Sure some may consider its putting some nameless corporation in their place but it also did a lot of damage in various ways.
How much time was between the initial questioning and the warrant? The article makes it sound like weeks/days. Plenty of time to get new HDD's (I was upgrading my computer) and sell your old ones to an international buyer on eBay after zero filling them.
There would be no case if he had done that. None at all, just upgrading my PC and selling old parts to recover the cost, your honor.