10820902
submission
Oxford_Comma_Lover writes:
A 24-year-old living with his mother in France was arrested for "hacking" into Obama's twitter accounts. Apparently he guesses the answer to a question related to password recovery in order to break into the accounts of famous people; he has no computer science training or financial motive. He posted screenshots to a few boards and twitter found out within a few hours, either from a tip or from noticing when someone from France logs onto twitter as the President of the United States. (He did not actually tweet as POTUS, but just wanted to show he could break into the account.)
9753740
submission
Oxford_Comma_Lover writes:
Joe Stack, a contract software engineer and musician from Austin, flew his single-engine Piper PA-28 into an office building in Austin that houses the local office of the IRS. He claims his taxes cost him tens of thousands of dollars and ten years of his life while allowing corrupt executives to walk away with millions. Two software companies he started in California in the mid nineties--Prowess Engineering Inc. in Corona and Software Systems Service, Inc. in Corona--were both suspended by the state tax board, and a recent tax audit by the IRS uncovered $10K plus of unreported income. "I know I'm hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand," Stack wrote, according to the AP. "But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure (sic) nothing will change."
His ISP has taken his statement off-line, in part due to bandwidth concerns, but links to a copy at the Smoking Gun.
8952038
submission
Oxford_Comma_Lover writes:
IDG News Service is reporting that several human rights orgs focusing on china have been hit by DDoS attacks this weekend, including Chinese Human Rights Defenders and Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch. The latter works on issues of mental persecution (dissidents being thrown into mental hospitals where they were forced onto medication or beaten with electric batons) and eminent-domain type problems (seizure of farmland or urban land without remuneration when the government is working on a project). A human rights org isn't a classic DDoS target because they don't have a lot of money to extort; anyone want to be this is related to the Google hack last week?
