[59195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: domain hijacker convicted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Jun 17 18:58:04 2003
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:57:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306171417490.15956-100000@sasami.anime.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Dan Hollis wrote:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-1016447.html
>
> Shows you how really worthless verisign's "security" is.
>
> How about the FBI start going after the netblock hijackers now? While
> racine's motivation was political, the netblock hijackers motivation is
> purely unjust enrichment and theft of service.
Just to be pedantic, he was supposed to appear in court on Monday. But I
haven't seen a news story of the judge accepting his guilty plea yet.
I wish all criminals called the FBI and explained how they comitted the
crime. It would make the FBI's job a lot easier.
