Programmer pinched for extortion plot

[BJCooperIT]

Someone developed software:

...that would roam the Web and fraudulently click on ads belonging to Google and its advertisers, potentially costing the search giant millions.

claiming it would expose vulnerabilities in Google's system. Then he tried to sell it to Google. When they declined, he...

sent an e-mail saying if Google didn't pay him the $100,000, he would sell the software to spammers and the public at large, who would then generate fake advertising hits, costing Google millions in advertising dollars.

Some people are too smart for their own good, while at the same time, too stupid to realize how dumb they really are!

Programmer pinched for extortion plot
They have forbid him to use a computer until his court date. Now what are the odds this guy will comply?

^{Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ~George Bernard Shaw}
Consultant/Custom Forms & PL/SQL - Oracle 8i & 9i - Windows 2000

 

[SemperFiDownUnda]

I heard about this a couple of days ago. Don't know what possessed him/her to do this.

Hope they have fun with the SS.

Every electronic device they own with any type of memory has been confiscated by the SS my bet.
X-Box
Digital cameras
Mobile phones
IPod
Computers
.
.
.

I'll send them a post card when they are in jail with just

How stupid are you?!?!

Hope I've been helpful,
Wayne Francis

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[sleipnir214]

In the immortal words of Robert Heinlein:

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity

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TANSTAAFL!!

 

[Dimandja]

sleipnir214, to complement your wonderful quote of Robert Heinlein:

Harlan Ellison: "The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity".

Giancarlo Livraghi: "

http://www.gandalf.it/stupid/stupid.htm

 

[Grenage]

If you ever needed proof that intelligence and wisdom are two completely different things, there it is.

 

[MakeItSo]

Two things are unlimited: space and human stupidity - although I'm not sure about space. - Albert Einstein

Perhaps SS should bring him together with this jolly fella:
Man walks into a bar, kills computer

:-D

 

[lionelhill]

I'm deeply puzzled by this last chap and the police who nicked him. I mean, he shot an inanimate object, and not only that, it was an object that belonged to him. He even forwarned people in the area what he intended to do. I personally would love to see a world where people don't own guns, but if they must, then what better things to shoot than their own property?

 

[SQLSister]

Generally there are laws about shooting off guns in municipal areas where innocent bystanders could get hurt. I know at the barn where I used to board my horse (which was in a municipal areas because the city annexed the county), the next door neighbors decided to do some target practice and one of our boarders got tossed when her horse paniced and got hurt. The police told them that they were not allowed to fire their own guns on their own property unless there was enough acreage that neigboring properties could not get the bullets by accident and hurt someone. They were really mad, but the law is there for the safety of others.

What if someone had walked into the bar or the bullet had richocheted and gone out a window and killed someone passing by? This is reckless endangerment.

 

[chiph]

Some areas have laws that make it illegal to discharge a firearm within 500 feet of a residence. North Carolina also has a law that you can always be charged under in these cases: "Going armed to the terror of the people".

Speaking as one who has shot up computer hardware (in the proper setting!), it can be very cathartic.

Back to the original topic:

This would be like going up to someone in traffic, telling them their car has a taillight burnt out and expecting a reward. If they don't get the reward, they then threaten to call the cops, unless a large "fee" is paid.

What an idiot! Although, there was a group of Russian hackers in the early 90's that managed to extort money from several companies in a similar manner -- they would threaten to reveal the firms security holes unless they were paid.

Chip H.


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