Re: UK: Hacker Dodges Prison Term

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

It seems to me that he didn't do anything too terrible. And therefore 
doesn't deserve prison. 

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Fergie wrote:

> Via ZDNet.co.uk.
>
> [snip]
>
> A hacker has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for
> two years, for compromising accounts on an Internet dating site.
>
> Matthew Byrne pleaded guilty to gaining control of and defacing four
> member profiles on the loveandfriends.com dating site in August 2004.
> He was sentenced on Tuesday at Southwark Crown Court by Judge Geoffrey
> Rivlin, according to a Metropolitan Police spokesman.
>
> Byrne gained control of the profiles using a dictionary attack, a
> technique that cracks a password or cipher by searching against a
> number of likely possibilities. The compromised profiles had "easily
> guessable" passwords, the Met Police website said.
>
> The hacker did not gain access to the "loveandfriends" database or web
> servers.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39284627,00.htm
>
> - ferg
>
>
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