Man arrested in 'Hackerazzi' attacks on celebs' cell/email - FBI time well spent.

[woody60707]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. man was arrested Wednesday on federal charges that he hacked into emails of celebrities including actress Scarlett Johansson, a person familiar with the investigation said.
One person was arrested out of state, Los Angeles FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. She declined to release further details before an 11 a.m. PDT (1500 GMT) press conference.
However, the person familiar with the investigation, who requested anonymity because the details had not yet been announced, told The Associated Press that a Florida man has been indicted on charges that he hacked into the email accounts of celebrities, including Johansson.
A call to a representative for Johansson was not immediately returned.
The arrest involved Operation Hackerazzi, a year-long FBI investigation of computer hacking that targeted Hollywood celebrities, Eimiller said.
Nude photos of Johansson appeared on an Internet site earlier this year, and TMZ.com reported that hackers stole them from her cellphone.

http://news.yahoo.com/arrest-charges-hollywood-email-hacking-probe-162502064.html

So the FBI spent a year in an investigation of celebs getting there cell phones/e-mail hacked. By hacked they mean people clicking the "Forgot password" button, being asking what's the name of your dog, and then being given the password. The man could be facing 121 years. The silliness of 121years even being a possibility is absurd.

This is not something I think the FBI should be spending their time on. The FBI would never waste there time if any of us got "nudes" stolen from our cell phones. And I don't mean to sound harsh, and I don't want to say it's there own fault, but if they didn't use their dog's name for the "Forgot password question", they never would of got "hacked".

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

I wonder if he had something to do with the group responsible for her cell phone nudie pictures. Me like it alot.

He isn't going to get a year I hope. Plead it down to a lesser charge.

 

[EnglishCrusader]

I don't mind people hacking into the phones of celebrities and getting some nude pics from it.

 

[Disgustipated]

Just like if I was dumb enough to keep nude pics of me on my cell phone, I would accept it being hacked and those pictures being distributed. I would never keep such pictures on there. What if I lost the phone? It's the same difference, right?

You'd think the FBI has more important things to do. Even the drug war is more important than this.

 

[bhsup]

What if I lost the phone? It's the same difference, right? .

No, it is not the same at all. You're like if you went outside and accidentally dropped your wallet in the street and someone came by and picked it up and kept it. What this person did was like kicking in the door of a home, forcing entry, and taking things from the home. It's a criminal act and the guy should get a hell of a lot more than a year.

But yeah, hey, just because it's an attractive actress, that makes everything cool.

 

[Luckymoose]

This all boils down to a simple measure...don't take nude pictures of yourself.

 

[Dreadnought]

If it's a cross-state investigation, then the FBI has to investigate this. It's not like the CIA got involved or anything.

 

[warpus]

There are a couple issues here:

1. This guy isn't a hacker. He didn't hack anything.
2. Just because this happened to celebrities doesn't mean that the police/fbi should spend any more time than if it had happened to a "regular" person.
3. The guy broke the law and should be punished, but 121 years is a .. BIT over the top.. Come on.. not even rapists get anywhere near that amount of jail time

 

[LucyDuke]

So the FBI spent a year in an investigation of celebs getting there cell phones/e-mail hacked. By hacked they mean people clicking the "Forgot password" button, being asking what's the name of your dog, and then being given the password. The man could be facing 121 years. The silliness of 121years even being a possibility is absurd.

This is not something I think the FBI should be spending their time on. The FBI would never waste there time if any of us got "nudes" stolen from our cell phones. And I don't mean to sound harsh, and I don't want to say it's there own fault, but if they didn't use their dog's name for the "Forgot password question", they never would of got "hacked".

It's stupid because they're celebrities?

 

[JollyRoger]

This all boils down to a simple measure

...don't break the law.

 

[Verarde]

This all boils down to a simple measure...don't take nude pictures of yourself.

...don't break the law.

Ditto and ditto.

But surely there are other things that the FBI could be spending their time on.

 

[dirtyparrot]

I don't have a problem with the guy getting caught, but having the FBI involved seems like a luxury that almost certainly wouldn't be afforded to the regular folks.

 

[woody60707]

No, it is not the same at all. You're like if you went outside and accidentally dropped your wallet in the street and someone came by and picked it up and kept it. What this person did was like kicking in the door of a home, forcing entry, and taking things from the home. It's a criminal act and the guy should get a hell of a lot more than a year.

But yeah, hey, just because it's an attractive actress, that makes everything cool.

I don't have a problem with the guy getting caught, but having the FBI involved seems like a luxury that almost certainly wouldn't be afforded to the regular folks.

I had my house robbed. The guy took mine and my roommates laptops, money, misc items, and a cellphone. Filled out a police report and called them back twice to see what can be done. A friend told me that I could ask for some crime scene investigator. So went in and got an officer to come out. We don't live in the best neighborhood, the house we all rent is run down and it's 4 college kids that live there. The cop took one look around, said there is noting I can test here with this look of why you wasting my time, and walk out.

This is the level of law enforcement most people get. And lets be honest, it was kinda wasting his time. The CPD does have better thing to do (like to stop the drug dealers from using my house as a drop spot. That was fun). The FBI should be catching Terrorist, Big time drug dealers, child rapist, ect. People in the FBI wasting a years on this meant other really bad people got away.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This is one of the reasons why I think security questions are stupid.... Even if you do the security right, have a nice complex password, you have to do one of these stupid questions which are the weakest points that can get your account compromised easily. It's even stupider when you have a list of preselected ones.

I once read an essay about this that explains it better than I can but I can't seem to find it.

EDIT: Here:
http://www.schneier.com/essay-081.html

 

[LucyDuke]

You make up an answer to the security question. Not the real one. Treat it like a regular password.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

You make up an answer to the security question. Not the real one. Treat it like a regular password.

Yeah thats what I tend to do. I put in something real random. But a lot of people wouldn't figure that.

 

[Yoda Power]

Celebs have the right to a private life too.

 

[Virote_Considon]

The man could be facing 121 years. The silliness of 121years even being a possibility is absurd.

Or it could represent the severe amount of individual crimes committed, and amplified by the demonstrable subhuman and sociopathic disregard he has for the laws of the society which he is a parasite to* which have resulted in his arrest and the occupation of relatively** significant national resources in the first place via the use of the FBI being needed.




*Parasite isn't implied to mean he's on social security, etc. but rather that he lives in the society expecting to be treated like a normal member of such by the community.

**Relatively = The amount relative to one person

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I wonder what would happen if some average person went to the police and said "Someone hacked into my account and posted naked pictures of me on the Internet!" I imagine they'd get an answer like "well don't put naked pictures of yourself in your email." But since this person is a celebrity?

Also, I wonder how the guy knew the celebrities email address in the first place. You usually need it to recover a password.

 

[Formaldehyde]

The man lived in a different state. Hence, it was the FBI's jurisdiction instead of local law enforcement. Besides, the FBI apparently already had an ongoing investigation of such cases.

This particular nutcase apparently "hacked" into 50 different celebrities accounts.

Chaney was released on an unsecured $10,000 bond to the custody of his parents, and is facing 121 years in prison.

Given that he was released to the custody of his mommy and daddy on a $10K bond makes me think he won't actually get anywhere near 121 years in prison for this.