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 > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawg(at)netzero.net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
