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?
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