Engineering junior Ryan Goldstein is expected to be indicted today for his role in a world-wide computer hacking ring. Goldstein allegedly helped some New Zealand nerd named AKILL access Penn computers to use “as a staging ground for a 50,000-computer attack against several online chat networks.”
From what I can make out of the article, Goldstein was in a chat group called TAUNET, but there was some sort of fight and he got kicked out. Then he was like “oh no you didn’t”, and waving his finger joined another chat group to ask for revenge. There he found AKILL, the ringleader of a bot group called “The A Team.” AKILL then pitied the fool Goldstein and helped him launch an attack on TAUNET and other targets.
Possible accomplice?
Goldstein was arrested last month and released on $10,000 bond — which means launching a worldwide hacking war with 50,000 computers is twenty times less serious than stealing panties.
To top it all off, Goldstein’s classes this semester included “Ethics, Social and Professional Responsibility for Engineers.” Unless he had a C or lower in this class it has to be disbanded, right? For Monday’s lecture the Professor should just walk in and be like, “Ok, so turns out this course is pointless. Class dismissed.”
Tags: crime, Engineering, Hacker Barbie
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November 29th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
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*Now* will they believe us when we say that class is terrible?
And overall this just goes to show — the internets are an evil place.
November 29th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
>>>To top it all off, Goldstein’s classes this semester included “Ethics, Social and Professional Responsibility for Engineers.” Unless he had a C or lower in this class it has to be disbanded, right? For Monday’s lecture the Professor should just walk in and be like, “Ok, so turns out this course is pointless. Class dismissed.”
*Now* will they believe us when we say that class is terrible?
And overall this just goes to show — the internets are an evil place.
November 30th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Man, Goldstein’s gonna get so much Second Life ass because of this…
November 30th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
[...] Chairman of the ‘Philicon’ Valley Commission — Ryan Goldstein [...]
November 30th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
He’s also a pedo
http://teamloosh.com/txt/Digerati-Exposed.zip
November 30th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
we banned this guy in the beginning for trying to get little boys to cam naked with him, I was the one that banned him, thats what started this whole thing. We have been trying to get some attention to the guy for quite some time. Glad that this is finally having some action.
this guy deserves to be behind bars the bot nets were not the half of it
November 30th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
lol. he deserved it..creepy pedo. “DIG FOR DEATH PENALTY!”
November 30th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
My wife actually had the FBI calling her to get more information. As a whole, the SSGroup.org community was likely more responsible for his eventual arrest than UPenn staff and the FBI. If not for us, they’d never have even started looking for him.
I hope they give him the chair … the one with the hole in it, not the electric one
November 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
SSgroup.org is now planet-sec.org
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:01 am
Whatever went on, this article is written in a biased (And somewhat foolish) way. It’s stupid ass media like this that in many cases makes the truth unfathomable. You should be ashamed of yourself sir.
Hi cm2, by the way <3
July 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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