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- DownSyndrom3, on 10/12/2007, -6/+150Now that's some hardcore *****, right there.
- CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -9/+92Interestingly enough the hackers name was s3cr37s3rv1c3
@jwyles
It's alright, you can say '*****'. - flag564, on 10/12/2007, -15/+74Plenty of empty beds at Guantanamo.
We'll keep the light on for you. - kamel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+56Two years old
- aplardi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56I think the funniest thing to come out of htis is knowing that the Secret Service uses T-Mobile...
LOL - Pontificator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Yay for articles from 2005!
- AnotherCanadian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34for a story that happened in October 2004!
- livet0ski, on 08/17/2009, -0/+30thats from January 12th 2005, kinda old news, and it was on digg when it was breaking
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29To: ------@nsa.gov
From: -------@nsa.gov
Subject: Kool!
Did you see last night's American Idol... My God, Simon is hot. - Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30br0ck is right, also this article is over 2 years old, look at the date on it.
- threadmore, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32BREAKING NEWS: The United States has just invaded Iraq!!
- joshua5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29"Agents had the hacker's ICQ number, which he'd used to chat with the informant. A web search on the number turned up a 2001 resume for the then-teenaged Jacobsen, who'd been looking for a job in computer security. "
And there you go. Looking up lyrics to Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake or battling cyber crime for the Secret Service... is there anything Google can't do? - br0ck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21@jwyles - Why not, they ended up hiring him! (Ok, so it was just an ephemereal "According to sources" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jacobsen --but still entertaining if true.)
Actually, his punishment was fairly light with a $10,000 fine and a year of house arrest according to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/31/t-mobile_hack_sentencing/ - sexycommando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20It's a good thing CTU uses Sprint, or Jack Bauer would be pissed.
- amoirae, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18We now know who watches the watchmen.
- FieldAnonymouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15No. Absolutely nobody. You're the very first person to notice. Pay no attention to the comments above yours.
- laplacian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+141000+ diggs for a story that was all over the news 2 years ago. Digg confuses me.
- DownSyndrom3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Now that I come back and look at the date that it was written, I understand why it hasn't hit the front page. It's over a year old. Good job. Heh.
- Quintios, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13THE ARTICLE IS TWO YEARS OLD...
Sheesh, I though the stuff on Digg was CURRENT NEWS. - rmxz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11So many things wrong with this one.
#1. Why isn't the "US Secret Service email" encrypted. For that matter why isn't most corporate email encrypted. It's pretty well known that email's pretty easily tapped - and email encryption technologies are decades old. How can it be that anyone - especially the government - and especially the secret service within the government - don't do this.
#2. What the heck is the phone company doing with social security numbers. They shouldn't need this, especially if they can't keep them safe.
#3. The hacker had access for a year? Doesn't T-Mobile log things or monitor their logs? Ugh, even more reason for encrypted emails. If one can't trust the carriers, it seems a pretty good argument that all communication (Email, VOIP, browsing) is best done encrypted with a technology at least good enough that the carrier can't access it. - jaggededge99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I wish I could bury this story as "Not News."
- uttles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Lots of organizations gather your SSN for credit purposes. They shouldn't, but they do.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Question: If the Secret Service is so secret, then how come they're allowing their cybercrime agents to do all their correspondence via a T-Mobile account; or any public account which they have little or no control over?
- ropers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"You don't FSCK with the Secret Service"
To the contrary, you most definitely should fsck(8) them. ( http://tinyurl.com/ytl2ul )
Be warned that you might discover significant system corruption, though. - syuusuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6My guess on why Kevin Rose dugg this story is because 2 years ago this is the same story that made Digg so popular. No one had the Paris hilton cell phone hack scoop other than Digg, and this was way back when Digg v1 was around.
- joel2600, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6kevin rose dugg this story while it was still in the upcoming stories.
.... just thought you all might like to know why this didn't get buried. - 1iProd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You forgot to lol
- aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If the Secret Service doesn't have anything to hide, then why would they mind?
- inv1c7u5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5man what a badass...
and seriously, operation firewall?
is harrison ford running secret service now? - notbob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yeah, Posted 12th January 2005 09:47 GMT
- zoltan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6wow how peculiar.. the same thing happened about 3 years ago... still an interesting story
- miletwo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yet another of the digg super intelligent elite who can't tell the difference between there, their, and they're. But... you probably know more "then" me. I'd be more likely to listen to what you have to say if you didn't sound like a Jr. High school dropout.
dumbass - sfabkk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Breaking News:
President Abraham Lincoln has just been shot. Rumor is he was at a theater............ - VANOS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yet people are still digging this. WTF? Bury this crap!
- naughtyboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Dear Digg.com administrators. Please implement an article date check and automatically bury old *****. It should be simple.
Sketch script
if (article_date > 4 weeks old) bury_deep - ngmcs8203, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The link at the top to submit stories reads: Submit a New Story
Are the submission guidelines really that difficult to understand? - frenzy3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this is sold old that my kids are studying this in their history classes
- ywwg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why isn't there a "bury" option for "incredibly old news story?" I usually pick "duplicate story" but that doesn't quite communicate the idea
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Whats next? News the Challenger space shuttle exploded? Or Abe Lincoln was assassinated?
- 99er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2>>Why isn't the "US Secret Service email" encrypted
Their regular email is more secure. This was email passed on the T-Mobile system. Good point, though- sensitive stuff shouldn't be sent over unsecured systems. - fugitiveALiEN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This just in, Paris Hilton's Sidekick was "hacked" by some L33T H4X0R guessing her password "tinkerbell" in 2005.
- XBackstabberX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I wonder why he was in Buffalo (i'm from Buffalo, so i'm curious)
- ipodsweatshop, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5This is incredibly old, the celebrity was Paris Hilton. It was all T-Mobile's fault, bad web page security.
Do you Digg people ever actually read anything? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uhh there's something that's even less new than this article that has been free for quite some time. You may have heard of it. It's called PGP and is based on public keys. There is also GPG. Then there is TLS available from server to server to encrypt logins and secure connections.
At the end of the day, you gotta wonder why the government, with strict regulations regarding IT security particularly when dealing with the SS, let this one slip. It's funny because they require more security with third-party exchanges than they do in-house. - arenas46, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2PWNT
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2[Warning! Digg users have reported this article as possibly outdated!]
...not fair to bury it...but a warning would be nice...like the inaccurate thing... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this guy is my hero, i bet he was like, "tmobile, secret service = pwnd!"
- kamisama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Old news, don't people check dates anymore before submitting stuff?
- yossarian24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that was one of the more badass hacker stories I've ever read... who's buying the movie rights
- Brodels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish it was my job to make up Secret Service operation names.
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