Student who hacked Bill O'Reilly gets 30 months

[Newsjock]

Source: Computerworld

A 23-year-old Bellevue, Ohio, man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison following a 2007 online crime spree in which he used a network of hacked computers to attack and knock offline websites belonging to conservative pundits Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter.

Mitchell Frost must also pay US$40,000 in restitution to O'Reilly and $10,000 to the University of Akron, where he was enrolled at the time of the hacking. He had pleaded guilty to the charges in May.

Frost was a first-year student at the university at the time of the attacks. He used the school's computer network to control a botnet he'd built up between August 2006 and March 2007, and launched denial of service (DOS) attacks against Rudy Giuliani's Joinrudy2008.com website, Billoreilly.com and Anncoulter.com. He attacked the Bill O'Reilly site five times, ultimately forcing it offline.

Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9195518/Student_who_hacked_Bill_O_Reilly_gets_30_months

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Yes, that's the actual headline, although the meaning clearly isn't what you think it might be.

[nosmokes]

1. That's more time than the pig got for killing an unarmed man in Oakland.

There is some serious fucked up somewhere.

[keopeli]

2. exactly. we're so screwed. like billo needs $40k

[rasputin1952]

3. He'll be happy, that is non-taxable....

Incredible that we have problems with electronic voting machines that change votes, backed by and set up by the GOP and it's operatives and no one gives a hoot; mess w/two insane RW idiots and it's 3 years in prison + ...pathetic.

[24601]

5. You mean the union member police officer? n/t

[nosmokes]

7. Do you have a legitimate point?

I didn't think so.

[Rage for Order]

14. Aside from calling you out as a douhcebag?

No, I think that's his only point

:rofl:

[nosmokes]

15. OFFS. You don't even know me. I may or may not be an asshole but that

doesn't change the fact this *cop* is a *pig* for shooting an unarmed man along with some past actions. now go fuck yourself and see if you can't learn how to put together a coherent argument elsewhere.

[Occulus]

16. I think Rage was actually agreeing with you and making fun of 24601 n/t

[fascisthunter]

9. what does him being a union member have anything to do with the topic

would like an answer, because it's pretty obvious that him being a union member was somehow valid to you.

[24601]

12. It was just an observation to see who reacted defensively. I made

no case for cause and effect at all.

[icnorth]

4. "The rich are different from you and me;

they get to hit and run, almost killing a cyclist, but get off without serious charges because it is hard to be money manager for Smith Barney if you have a record. District Attorney Mark Hurlbert is not charging Martin Joel Erzinger with a felony, because "Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger's profession," which is managing billions for rich people.

Dr. Steven Milo, the victim, is not impressed."

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/rich-vail-fund-manager-gets-off.php

[Ian David]

6. Fucking thing sucks!

Bill O'Reilly Flips Out — DANCE REMIX (NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE

[Greybnk48]

8. And nothing happened to Rove for outing a CIA

operative which probably cost lives. Bush & cronies go free for their war crimes.

[Ginto]

10. Actually it was Armitage that did that. Rove and Libby were the one's who helped cover it up. nt

[Doctor_J]

11. That's a lot more than the teabagger/stomper in KY

Lesson: It's better to assault a liberal than hack the account of a fascist.

[Rage for Order]

13. Good

I have no sympathy for anyone who launches these types of computer attacks. Also from the article:

"The University of Akron was disrupted too, when Frost knocked its network offline for eight-and-a-half hours while trying to DOS-attack a gaming server hosted by the university. That happened on March 14, 2007. Frost's dorm room was raided two weeks later. He wasn't charged, however, until May of this year.

Prosecutors asked the court for a tough sentence after Frost lied to his probation officer about an online business he'd set up following his arrest. In a letter to the court, Frost said he set up the Discountjwh.com website earlier this year after quitting his job as a Stanley Steemer carpet cleaning technician. JWH is a form of synthetic cannabis that is legal for sale in some U.S. states, including Ohio."

His hobbies extended far beyond launching attacks on right-wing hacks' (pun intended) websites.