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Hacker Who Aided ISIS Gets 20 Years In Prison (softpedia.com) 131

Posted by BeauHD from the fraternizing-with-the-enemy dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, will spend 20 years in a U.S. prison for providing material support to ISIS hackers by handing over data for 1,351 U.S. government employees. Ferizi obtained the data by hacking into a U.S. retail company on June 13, 2015. The hacker then filtered the stolen information and put aside records related to government officials, which he later handed over to Junaid Hussain, the then leader of the Islamic State Hacking Division (ISHD). Hussain then uploaded this information online, asking fellow ISIS members to seek out these individuals and execute lone wolf attacks. Because of this leak, the U.S. Army targeted and killed Hussain in a drone strike in Syria in August 2015. Before helping ISIS, Ferizi had a prodigious hacking career as the leader of Kosova Hacker's Security (KHS) hacking crew. He was arrested on October 6, 2015, at the international airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, while trying to catch a flight back to Kosovo. Ferizi was in Kuala Lumpur studying computer science.
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  • World Police? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by innocent_white_lamb ( 151825 ) on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:31AM (#52952141)

    From Kosovo, arrested in Malaysia, and now jailed in the USA.

    Is every justice system in the world subservient to the American system?

    It seems more reasonable to return him to where he committed the crime (Kosovo?) and have him dealt with there, doesn't it?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      That much is obvious. Less obvious is why this global security arrangement is not taught in schools? Why do we pretend the world is something else than what it actually is to our children?

      Is there a reason behind the act of sugar coating the world affairs? To keep people happy and ignorant?

      • Look up: Edward Bernais (nephew of Freud).
      • The humans are of two types; One who control (type-1); the other who is controlled (type-2). All national boundaries or any other group formation is just to aid type-1. And yes, any information flow is to aid type-1. And yes all programming (of mind) is to aid type-1. Of course it aids type-1 to keep type-2 subservient and hence all system of information flow we have (schools, economy, even internet) exists to aid type-1 if you peel the onion.

    • We have picked up thousands of terrorists from Pakistan, and placed them in Guantanamo bay. What is your point?

      A terrorist does not care who is being killed. I would love to see entire world coming together against them as a single unit, and detain them/punish them under some new international law (making sure nationality, original place of crime etc do not become obstacles.). Otherwise we will be spending time debating norms and they will emerge as winner.

      • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward

        The system you speak of already exists; The ICC at The Hague. Curiously, the USA does not allow it's citizens to be subject to that system though.

        One rule for some... another rule for others.

      • Re: World Police? (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        The opposite is more likely. It makes me anti-american and I think this guy should be behind bars for life.

        The US cannot play both sides and still pretend to be good guys. The US is guilty of more than this guy by orders of magnitude but non-anericans have no standing and no way to seek justice.

        I resent that. It is not acceptable, it will never be acceptable and people will always fight. That is what the US clearly aims for, endless war on other peoples soil to keep your military money flowing.

        So this assho

        • Uh, the US had mostly disarmed and was pretty much minding its own business when 9/11 happened. So you can lose the sophistry about US policies causing the anti-US sentiments. It's usually a blend of Leftist and Muslim hatred against the US, and for that matter, everyone who's successful

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by johanw ( 1001493 )

            "Minding it's own buisiness" relative to WW2 you mean? They were still meddeling all over the globe. And a few thousands dead happens everywhere due to US "collateral damage", so who cares if a few thousand USAnians die in a heavily provoked reaction?

            • Let's look at after 1991 or 1992. Aside from the war in Kuwait - which, looking at back today, was a mistake, how many times did the US meddle against Muslim interests? In Yugoslavia, they either ignored the war - during the Bosnian war - or took the Muslim side - when Bill Clinton did his 'Wag the dog' operation. In the Israel-Pali conflict, a lot of pressure was put on Israel to make unilateral concessions, which Ehud Barak actually did. Aside from that, 1992-2000 was a decade of peace as far as the U
      • Maybe it would be a good plan to put the people that created them in Guantanamo, but not as staff.

    • Re:World Police? (Score:5, Informative)

      by Zontar The Mindless ( 9002 ) <<moc.liamg> <ta> <ofni.hsifcitsalp>> on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:03AM (#52952249) Homepage

      He hacked into a US company and gave information about US citizens to an unfriendly power for the express purpose of hunting these people down and killing them. Kosovo was apparently content to let him keep flitting back and forth between there and KL indefinitely. The Malaysian authorities apparently weren't. He should be grateful to them for turning him over to the Americans. This means he'll very likely get to live to go home again eventually, instead of doing so in a casket, following an impromptu necktie party.

      Why do you feel the need to make excuses for this character, anyhow?

      • He hacked into a US company

        It's this 'US company' that actually put those government employees 'in harms way'.
        What is a merchandise doing with data that can distinguish between government employees and others?
        And why was that data not protected better?

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Jzanu ( 668651 )
          Government backed credit cards are easily identified. The office heads usually get them to simplify purchasing for custom needs on short notice, and some of the direct reports do as well. Seemingly those aren't the only cases. Of course all use is subject to review but the pay and job security is enough that outright theft by fraud isn't much of a problem.

      • Happens all the time. If a person commits a crime against country A and they are in country B, country A may well ask country B to hand them over. If it happens or the details of it vary based off of the specific countries and their treaties, called extradition treaties. For example the US and North Korea? Ya not happening. There are no extradition treaties between those two, and the governments hate each other. so nobody is getting handed over. However EU nations? Extremely strong extradition treaties. If

    • Is every justice system in the world subservient to the American system?

      Yes, well, no, not *every*. For instance not North Korea, but (as a result, therefore) everybody seems to hate North Korea.
      And of course North Korea will have not right (to nuclear weapons) to defend itself against 'the American System'.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by johanw ( 1001493 )

        The Russians are doing pretty good as well. Snowden is still safe from being extradited. Now everyone is hating the Russians though.

        • So is Ecuador, where Assange is hiding

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by johanw ( 1001493 )

            Only because he is in their embassy in London and it would be bad form to bomb the London embassy. If he would live in Equador himself he would probably already have had an "accident".

    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

      • You realise that Kosovo fought a particularly bloody war of independence against Serbia in the 1990s after the breakup of Yugoslavia and, after a period of protectionism under UN administration, declared independence from Serbia in 2008 - that independence is recognised by 109 UN members, so it is not a pseudo-state, it is a state by recognition, and Serbia would most definitely want Kosovo back if it were to be allowed...

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by gtall ( 79522 )

          Serbia wants Kosovo back to finish the job of depopulating it from Muslims and repopulating it with Serbs. Serbia thinks it will make their collective dick look bigger.

          • Kosovo's people are the ones who have problems w/ not just Serbs, but Macedonians as well. It's not like Serbia is the lone bully there. Also, Serbia is expected to part w/ Kosovo on ethnic/religious grounds, but in the meantime, Serbs in Bosnia's Srpska region, which borders Serbia and who wanna join Serbia, can't b'cos the 'international community' is supportive of the Muslim peoples of the region - Albanians and Bosniaks.

            Ironically, all the Jihadi attacks we've seen since 9/11 - had there been attack

    • Yes, except Kosovo is not a state...

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

      • Excepting in the minds of Islamo-pandering cuntries (sic) in Western Europe and the US. Never mind that even the OIC doesn't recognize Kosovo as a state.

    • From Kosovo, arrested in Malaysia, and now jailed in the USA.

      Is every justice system in the world subservient to the American system?

      It seems more reasonable to return him to where he committed the crime (Kosovo?) and have him dealt with there, doesn't it?

      Well, the internet being what it is, if one can cause Jihadi mayhem in the US sitting in Pristina or Kuala Lumpur, then what's so special about them that they shouldn't be brought to trial in an American court? Especially since what they did was not a violation of either 'Kosovar' law nor Malaysian law.

    • Due to bloom.bg/1O04ymn

  • 20 years (Score:3, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:00AM (#52952355)
    20 years is a little bit much for hacking, if I can say so myself.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by NotAPK ( 4529127 )

      He definitely would have gotten less time for raping someone. And possible less time for murder, but that varies a lot.

      I agree, 20 years seems disproportionate. I hope he can appeal.

    • fpmita prison and he's lucky that it's not death row

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Nemyst ( 1383049 )
      It's not fair to just look at the act in isolation. Hacking to piss someone off? Meh. Hacking to steal money? Bad, but not critical. Hacking for the specific purpose of getting people killed? Yeah, no, throw that fucking idiot in jail and I don't ever want to see him near computers again.
  • "ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies... to fight to the death against Hezbollah." ref [ronpaulinstitute.org]

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gtall ( 79522 )

      Sheesh, after all this time you still don't get that everyone in the MidEast is chewing gum and walking at the same time. They all have multiple agendas. Calling something over there this or that in its entirety is simply Western hubris, i.e., if we think this way, everyone thinks this way.

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