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On Wednesday, a jury in Sacramento, California, found Matthew Keys, former social media editor at Reuters and an ex-employee of KTXL Fox 40, guilty of computer hacking under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act.
In 2010, Keys posted login credentials to the Tribune Company content management system (CMS) to a chatroom run by Anonymous, resulting in the defacement of an LA Times article online. The defacement was reversed in 40 minutes, but the government argued the attack caused nearly a million dollars in damage.
"The government wanted to send a clear message that if you want to cover a group they don't agree with, and you're not complicit with them [the government], they will target you," Keys told me after the trial.
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Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Found Guilty of Three Counts of Hacking
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 11 2015, @04:26AM
It cost a million dollars to restore the web page? Lying bastards, it most likely cost less than five thousand dollars, probably less than a thousand dollars
It might cost half a manhour to restore a (assumed) knowngood copy, they did not know at that time WHERE they were compromised. So they had to check EVERYTHING. They probably weren't even sure whether the backup system was clean or not.
You're probably the kind of guy that says "rape isn't that bad when she doesn't get pregnant or diseased and hey it was over in 5 minutes anyway".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 11 2015, @04:59AM
I'm proud of my fan club, but I wish the fans would demonstrate better logic. What does the defecement of a web page have to do with rape? And, why is this fan projecting his attitudes toward rape on me? Some of my fans are embarrassing . . .
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday October 11 2015, @12:01PM
At least you have fans. So many of us don't, you insensitive clod.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 11 2015, @03:35PM
But, PHOENIX! You got fans! I skim over all your submissions, and read most of them! It is you who is being insensitive! Oh, boo hoo hoo . . . I'm going to sulk and whine for awhile.