Hacker Arrested in Billboard Porn Stunt

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10 pointsmarkbnine3 comments

FTA: "He had previously worked as a systems administrator but was laid off, Interfax said."

I find this hilariously ironic. The whole world has the consequences of recession and depression on its mind, so the article closes with this epiphany: Lay off your computer geeks and they'll find other, more novel ways to amuse themselves.

If there were any justice he would be hired (or at least given a brief gig as a consultant) by the company that serves the video billboards to increase their security.

I'll bet they had a default login (like admin:admin) and just relied on obscurity to keep their billboards safe.

This was a cute idea in the seventies, and we've been through this debate on ethics in the nineties and the consensus is that no, we're not hiring burglars to fix the locks anymore. There are other people who can fix locks and we don't have to reward anti-social behavior.

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