Re: T-Mobile Hacker and server vulnerabilities

[James Tucker <jftucker () gmail com>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:31:54 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
<Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:04:21 +0100, vh said:
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 03:15:52 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > > One has to wonder which tabloid will win the bidding war for the pics. ;)
> >
> > Why was Mitnick jailed and this guy isn't? ;)
>
> Umm.. Occam's Razor suggests the answer is because this guy has cell-phone
> photos of Somebody Important and a sheep, and Mitnick didn't.... ;)
>
> Either that, or the Secret Service is having a hard time figuring out how
> to sucessfully prosecute Jacobson for (among other things) hacking into the
> T-Mobile account of the agent who was investigating him.  Prosecutors really
> hate it when the basic integrity of the investigation is compromised - this
> one is right up there with detectives finding out that the Mafia boss they're
> trying to take down has a bug planted in their conference room.....

Only the bug could have created any amount of false or erronous papers
there. In this case you can no longer trust any evidence in the
'conference room'. But please lord, not another analogy war, its just
scale issues.


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