Another celebrity phone hacked--but this time its scary!!

[UNCjigga]

Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

 

[xchangx]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

 

[CptObvious]

I've used VZW's Pix Place in the past because I didn't have a microSD card for my phone. It seems anything you upload on Pix Place is open for review, according to their TOS:

(v) Verizon Wireless has no obligation to monitor your or others' content but reserves the right at all times and without prior notice to review any and all content, to disclose content as necessary to satisfy any laws, regulations or government requests and to report any potential or actual violations of law to law enforcement authorities, to refuse to post or transmit files or content, to remove without notice content that is, in Verizon Wireless' sole judgment and discretion, objectionable or in violation of this Agreement.

 

[Unheard]

Originally posted by: xchangx

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

You have no idea the possible sh1t storm you just released with that comment.

Sets up Beer and Hot Dog stand.

 

[rh71]

In other news, tin foil has seen a record number of sales.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: xchangx

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

1 bad employee = government? laugh.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: Unheard

Originally posted by: xchangx

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

You have no idea the possible sh1t storm you just released with that comment.

Sets up Beer and Hot Dog stand.

*Scans the pricelist*

Are you running a monday happy hour or early bird special?

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: xchangx

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

sheep! baaaaaaaaaaaaa baaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[InlineFive]

Read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress, that'll really get you going!

 

[FoBoT]

:camera:'s?

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: InlineFive
Read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress, that'll really get you going!

Haven't read it yet, but is it really that good?

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: xchangx

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

1 bad employee = government? laugh.

It works like this: govt asks someone to build a backdoor for them. Govt contractors all line up for big budget govt money and eventually one gets picked to supply the solution. That company has hundreds or thousands of employees. One of them gets a little carried away. Its happened before and it'll happen again.

I wouldn't blame the government if this was an issue with a carrier having lax security measures and getting hacked directly (i.e. T-Mobile and Paris Hilton's account). But early indications from this article are that someone used their position (or their company's position) to take advantage of a security hole built-in for "national security" purposes. If that's the case you can't blame the carrier, and I won't blame Sandia if one out of thousands of employees is a bad egg. But I can blame the government for asking for that hole to be built.

 

[Sphexi]

The affidavit says that during a search of Townsend's home in Albuquerque, investigators found Linkin Park posters, autographed band memorabilia, pictures of Townsend with Chester Bennington, bootlegged Linkin Park music and copies of messages and photographs intercepted from the Bennington family's e-mail accounts.

All they need to do is get the RIAA involved now, that'll scare her good.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: xchangx
It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

You mean like John Lennon did?

 

[thraashman]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: xchangx

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

1 bad employee = government? laugh.

The fact that the government has technology in development that allows this kind of snooping and that the oversight on it is poor enough that one employee was able to do this and no red flags were raised until that employee attempted black mail is what's scary. Stuff like this is supposed to take a court order to be accomplished, not the free time of a bored employee. If it's that easy, what's to stop some government agency from grabbing all of your information via cell phone. I understand the need and purpose for this technology existing and being used when appropriate and legal, but there has to be more security and oversight to prevent a single person from being able to do this on a whim.

 

[xchangx]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

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[ThePresence]

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[JS80]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: xchangx

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

1 bad employee = government? laugh.

It works like this: govt asks someone to build a backdoor for them. Govt contractors all line up for big budget govt money and eventually one gets picked to supply the solution. That company has hundreds or thousands of employees. One of them gets a little carried away. Its happened before and it'll happen again.

I wouldn't blame the government if this was an issue with a carrier having lax security measures and getting hacked directly (i.e. T-Mobile and Paris Hilton's account). But early indications from this article are that someone used their position (or their company's position) to take advantage of a security hole built-in for "national security" purposes. If that's the case you can't blame the carrier, and I won't blame Sandia if one out of thousands of employees is a bad egg. But I can blame the government for asking for that hole to be built.

There are checks and balances built in so people like this get caught, as exemplified.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: xchangx

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Some LP-obsessed chick working at Sandia National Laboratories thought it'd be fun to use the National Security supercomputer to get into Chester Bennington's Verizon Wireless account.

Phone number? Of course.
Emails and TXTs? Yes.
Camera phone pics and MMS? Check.

The brilliant stalker then decides to threaten his wife, and authorities arrested her and are now investigating how exactly she hacked into his account. Well here's a hint: Sandia National Labs "develops technology to support national security". In other words--the government wants digital backdoors to eavesdrop on communications and Sandia's holding the keys. These are the kind of abuses that scare me in our modern digital Information Age.

Link

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

1 bad employee = government? laugh.

It works like this: govt asks someone to build a backdoor for them. Govt contractors all line up for big budget govt money and eventually one gets picked to supply the solution. That company has hundreds or thousands of employees. One of them gets a little carried away. Its happened before and it'll happen again.

I wouldn't blame the government if this was an issue with a carrier having lax security measures and getting hacked directly (i.e. T-Mobile and Paris Hilton's account). But early indications from this article are that someone used their position (or their company's position) to take advantage of a security hole built-in for "national security" purposes. If that's the case you can't blame the carrier, and I won't blame Sandia if one out of thousands of employees is a bad egg. But I can blame the government for asking for that hole to be built.

There are checks and balances built in so people like this get caught, as exemplified.

are you an NSA contractor?

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
There are checks and balances built in so people like this get caught, as exemplified.

except they didn't get caught due to any "checks and balances"

 

[ranmaniac]

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

The government does spy on "average" people, every phone call, email, FAX etc goes through the NSA.

 

[spidey07]

Anybody that works at a phone company can listen to your phone calls.

Heck, with 100 dollars worth of equipment anybody can listen to your phone calls.

 

[Freaknificent]

CRAAAWWWWLLLIIIINN INNNN MYYY SKIIIIIIINNNNNN!!!!

 

[Syringer]

A girl that can hack? That's hot.

 

[xchangx]

Originally posted by: ranmaniac

It's amazing how people think that the government wants to spy on average people. The gov could care less what you are doing, unless you pose a threat somehow.

The government does spy on "average" people, every phone call, email, FAX etc goes through the NSA.

Do you have anything to support that? That's the first time I've heard that.