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AVSIM hacker found

i doubt he will get any job offers from this. it's not like he did anything groundbreaking or unusual. it was just heartless is all.
i also doubt he'll do any jail time.
that said, i just want to say two more things:

1) how many simmers prayed this guy would get caught? 'nuff said :engel016:

2) congratulations avsim, with all my heart i hope justice is done.
 
Ickie said:
I have a script running on this server and 5+ times a day someone tries to hack SOH, I send emails to the company who owns the IP and send them my log, and only a few have responded to my emails and they are from Northern Europe.
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I must say, this is the longest stretch in a while that we've seen SO stay up and running with no successful attacks or failures. You're doing something right, and I'm glad.
 
Rope, Tree, Hacker! Some assembly required.[/QUOTE]


How about Rope, Grand Canyon Sky Walk, Hacker.....Just to give him the sensation of flying........Briefly
 
a picture of the person and a list of church steeples near the courthouse always comes in handy
 
What they should do is find out how much it cost Avsim to repair and replace the damage dollar wise. Times that figure by 100. That should be his jail time. Also pay back all the damages he caused. Part two of this....let him serve time in a third world jail and put him in the same cell with Bubba.....I bet ya next time he might think twice about the hacking.
 
Cheers to Avsim for going after this pond scum. Unless the authorities finally start punishing some of these hackers more severely, the cycle of hacking will continue. If he's convicted, he should lose all of his personal property to repay damages to the site, and he should do some hard time with Bubba...
 
Railrunner130 said:
I'm glad Tom has taken measures to go after this individual. I don't get why he gave the guy two opportunities to fess up.
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Because it's more gentlemanly, and you get a bigger 'win'. It's like saying 'I have your life in my hands right now, and this could all be much simpler for you' before they force you to pull the trigger. It's much more satisfying, too.

:applause:
 
forget that it's gonna get messy, give me the Black and Decker drill, drill his knee-caps and elbows, break the wrists, fingers, arms, legs maybe also use a hack saw cut a vital part off, incinerate it so no medical expert can re-connect the plumbing, then sit him in front of a fire (duct taped to a large immovable chair) pass me the PE4, a couple large gas canisters and a det-cord... well you get the idea, i'll sit back at 3/4 mile, if explosion don't finish him I will using 'trusty'

just my idea anyways.... *whistles casually as if I said nothing*
 
"The Metropolitan Police could not confirm whether it had received the complaint".
Perhaps we should await the full story before celebrating too much.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I sense a bit of anger in some of your responses..

Anyway it will probably be some 15-year old kiddy who thinks hacking is cool, and will probably get away with a fine and maybe a few hours of community service.
I'd say let him pay back the damage even if that means he can't even buy a loaf of bread the next twenty years without someone checking if he really needs to spend money on it, and no internet access until all is paid back!
 
Ferry_vO said:
Anyway it will probably be some 15-year old kiddy who thinks hacking is cool, ...
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Only Avsim has the details, the rest is speculation. Which I'll vaguely speculate on...

I don't feel it was a 15 year old kiddy, but someone who had been given access to the system. That access allowed them to harvest email data, which then turned into a bunch of people getting unsolicted emails at addresses that weren't always the primary email addy for the recipient. The spammer posted on the Avsim forums that he wasn't some "two-bit spammer" and that he had garnered the data from "other sources", not by harvesting the Avsim data. Shortly thereafter his tenure with Avsim ended and the hack occurred.

Avsim says they tried to settle, but were ignored. Who I suspect did the hack has posted about being away from home for an extended period of time, which would coincide with any attempt by Avsim to contact him. The potential hacker also makes software that is used by the online community and the tube flyers. What better method to go about gaining data for spamming purposes than to have a bunch of people download and install some software that is given full access rights to the internet for the purposes of reporting their flying activities. And all the while it's sitting there reading email addys.


Ah, I love a good conspiracy theory in the morning! :wavey:
 
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