A Romanian hacker has been charged with running amok on more than 150 US government computers. Victor Faur, 26, of Arad, Romania, allegedly launched attacks that disrupted the systems of NASA, the Energy Department, and the Navy. Victims were faced with bills estimated at $1.5m to sort out the mess.
Faur, suspected leader of a hacking group called the WhiteHat Team that's blamed for the attacks, faces nine counts of computer hacking and one count of conspiracy, offences punishable by up to 54 years imprisonment. Faur is also being prosecuted on separate computer crime offences in his native Romania. US authorities plan to seek Faur's extradition after the conclusion of the case.
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Faur, suspected leader of a hacking group called the WhiteHat Team that's blamed for the attacks, faces nine counts of computer hacking and one count of conspiracy, offences punishable by up to 54 years imprisonment. Faur is also being prosecuted on separate computer crime offences in his native Romania. US authorities plan to seek Faur's extradition after the conclusion of the case.
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When that american soldier killed one of our rock stars Teo Peter on romanian soil, the americans never gave him to us to convict him by romanian laws and he's not even in prison!
I hope they will never catch Victor!
It looks like 1.5 million dollars is more important than a man's life for the american government!
54 years in jail to you is fair for hacking? 54 years could mean his whole life and if not, he will be 80 something when he gets out...and for what?? MONEY! In my opinion jail is only suitable a punishment for rapists and murderers...no other people deserve jail time!!
Computer crime should only have financial consequences, not physical consequences like take someone's freedom forever because he hacked into a government system!! I will never follow justice because I don't agree with it!
looks like you have no ideea what justice means... sad...
It seems the meaning must have got lost in translation?
Proud for something illegal? Be proud of Brancusi, Eminescu, and so on, not with some stupid kid with too much spare time letting other innocent people unemployed due of their actions. Get a life stupid ignorants.
And by the way caesar, if you think that kid is stupid, do that yourself, do something like that yourself. I dont think you know but there are some peoples in this world we call home, who do this for living, they crack the best sites, the ones we think are secured to prove they are weak and lots and lots of peoples pay huge for this, but also there are some kind of too proud, mindless and stupid organizations who rather throw this kids in jail than appreciate the service they are doing.
In this case, if NASA will let this go, they will lose a god IT security specialist (who can crack can also fix ). So I encurage this kind of activity, witch give a slap to the proud ones, who think they are the best and no one can touch them.
SO, GO NASA AND HIRE THIS GUY HO GIVE YOU A SLAP.
SEE YA
Last edited by danycata on 08 Dec 2006 - 08:33
Yes, if anything, they should offer the guy a well-paid job, as he's obviously much more talented than the idiots at Nasa&Co.
But as they are probably far too stupid for this, I hope he will be hacking still some more
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