Wi-Fi Hacker Gets 18 Years
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Wi-Fi Hacker Gets 18 Years
This is awesome.
http://news.yahoo.com/minnesota-wi-f...032803295.html
Minnesota hacker Barry Ardolf was sentenced to an 18-year term in a federal prison this Tuesday. Ardolf had terrorized a neighboring family for two years through a carefully planned campaign involving a hijacked Wi-Fi network to harass, frame and embarrass the next-door neighbors in every facet of their lives.
Ardolf’s obsessive passive-aggression was apparently ignited in late 2008 when his neighbors, Matt and Bethany Kostolnik, filed a police report against him. The Kostolniks had a 4-year old son who wandered over to their next-door-neighbors property shortly after moving into the Minnesota suburb of Blaine. Ardolf, 46 and a father of two, had reportedly picked the boy up carried him back to the couple and then kissed the child on the lips. Ardolf was offended when the cops were called and vowed his revenge like every good villain.
The man, a Medtronic computer technician, downloaded a Wi-Fi hacking program to tear into his neighbors WEP encryption. Ardolf created a fake Myspace page as well as several fake emails for Matt Kostolnik. The hacker then posted child porn on the Myspace page and emailed the same child porn to co-workers at Kostolnik’s law office.
To top it all off, the Blaine hacker sent death threats to Vice President Joe Biden and other politicians from Kostolnik’s Yahoo account. This granted Kostolnik a visit from the secret service who had traced the emails back to his IP address. One of the emails told Biden, “I swear to God I’m going to kill you!”
Ardolf’s mischief was detected when a frustrated Kostolnik told bosses he had no clue as to what was going on. The law office hired a firm to poke around the Wi-Fi network and install a packet sniffer to figure it all out. Eventually Ardolf’s name and Comcast account were found which gave the FBI a reason to obtain a search warrant for Ardolf’s house. They found massive evidence that led to the Blaine hacker being slapped with charges for identity theft, making threats against Biden, possession of child pornography as well as distribution of kiddie-porn.
The FBI also found evidence that Ardolf had staged a similar attack against in a family in Brooklyn Park for parking their cars in front of his house. Ardolf’s charges will tag him with lifetime-sex-offender registration requirements and after his release he’ll be supervised for 20 years. According to the Pioneer Press, he’ll also be restricted when working with computers by his parole officers. The man may have been a nightmare to live next to, but is the 18 years in prison a bit overkill?
http://news.yahoo.com/minnesota-wi-f...032803295.html
Minnesota hacker Barry Ardolf was sentenced to an 18-year term in a federal prison this Tuesday. Ardolf had terrorized a neighboring family for two years through a carefully planned campaign involving a hijacked Wi-Fi network to harass, frame and embarrass the next-door neighbors in every facet of their lives.
Ardolf’s obsessive passive-aggression was apparently ignited in late 2008 when his neighbors, Matt and Bethany Kostolnik, filed a police report against him. The Kostolniks had a 4-year old son who wandered over to their next-door-neighbors property shortly after moving into the Minnesota suburb of Blaine. Ardolf, 46 and a father of two, had reportedly picked the boy up carried him back to the couple and then kissed the child on the lips. Ardolf was offended when the cops were called and vowed his revenge like every good villain.
The man, a Medtronic computer technician, downloaded a Wi-Fi hacking program to tear into his neighbors WEP encryption. Ardolf created a fake Myspace page as well as several fake emails for Matt Kostolnik. The hacker then posted child porn on the Myspace page and emailed the same child porn to co-workers at Kostolnik’s law office.
To top it all off, the Blaine hacker sent death threats to Vice President Joe Biden and other politicians from Kostolnik’s Yahoo account. This granted Kostolnik a visit from the secret service who had traced the emails back to his IP address. One of the emails told Biden, “I swear to God I’m going to kill you!”
Ardolf’s mischief was detected when a frustrated Kostolnik told bosses he had no clue as to what was going on. The law office hired a firm to poke around the Wi-Fi network and install a packet sniffer to figure it all out. Eventually Ardolf’s name and Comcast account were found which gave the FBI a reason to obtain a search warrant for Ardolf’s house. They found massive evidence that led to the Blaine hacker being slapped with charges for identity theft, making threats against Biden, possession of child pornography as well as distribution of kiddie-porn.
The FBI also found evidence that Ardolf had staged a similar attack against in a family in Brooklyn Park for parking their cars in front of his house. Ardolf’s charges will tag him with lifetime-sex-offender registration requirements and after his release he’ll be supervised for 20 years. According to the Pioneer Press, he’ll also be restricted when working with computers by his parole officers. The man may have been a nightmare to live next to, but is the 18 years in prison a bit overkill?
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im actually shocked he didnt get more. death threat to a pres/vice pres alone i thought got you serious jail time i even though it was ment to get the other person in trouble
WTF Federal Prison, Throw him in State Prison and let him see some REAL Criminals that would eat him apart. If some random dude kissed my daughter in the lips I would Whip is ass so bad. This dude is obviously into Child Porn let him serve time in State to see how he comes out after his 18 years.
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See, he got really defensive when accused of being a weird pedo freak after he kissed the kid on the lips - and was later found to be in possession of kiddie porn.
That just shows you how amazingly accurate it is when you accuse someone of something that's pretty obvious and they get SUPER defensive. They're guilty 99/100.
That just shows you how amazingly accurate it is when you accuse someone of something that's pretty obvious and they get SUPER defensive. They're guilty 99/100.
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And to think this all could've been avoided if his neighbors used a WPA password on their router instead of WEP. WEP encryption is a joke and not that hard to get around if the person wants to, WPA2 (AES) on the other hand is still uncracked, most routers today support WPA/WPA2 so please change the encryption on your routers........
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And to think this all could've been avoided if his neighbors used a WPA password on their router instead of WEP. WEP encryption is a joke and not that hard to get around if the person wants to, WPA2 (AES) on the other hand is still uncracked, most routers today support WPA/WPA2 so please change the encryption on your routers........
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WTF Federal Prison, Throw him in State Prison and let him see some REAL Criminals that would eat him apart. If some random dude kissed my daughter in the lips I would Whip is ass so bad. This dude is obviously into Child Porn let him serve time in State to see how he comes out after his 18 years.
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And to think this all could've been avoided if his neighbors used a WPA password on their router instead of WEP. WEP encryption is a joke and not that hard to get around if the person wants to, WPA2 (AES) on the other hand is still uncracked, most routers today support WPA/WPA2 so please change the encryption on your routers........
Had they had better encryption he'd still be diddling himself to baby pictures.
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WPA doesn't suck. WEP is the weird 10 character hexadecimal password, something like 1a3faf89cb. Not only is it impossible to memorize it's easy to crack with the right tools. Most people just set it to their phone number like 2128675309 making it even easier to crack but easier to memorize.
WPA is just a better encryption technology. Not only is it much harder to crack (to date it hasn't been cracked yet, well, only partially using TKIP but that's nothing to worry about) it also allows you to use words as the password of at least 8 characters or more making the password much easier to remember and at the same time very difficult to crack.
If you have verizon FiOS your default wifi password is WEP so you should change that shit so this doesn't happen to you.....
WPA is just a better encryption technology. Not only is it much harder to crack (to date it hasn't been cracked yet, well, only partially using TKIP but that's nothing to worry about) it also allows you to use words as the password of at least 8 characters or more making the password much easier to remember and at the same time very difficult to crack.
If you have verizon FiOS your default wifi password is WEP so you should change that shit so this doesn't happen to you.....