General law enforcement in the US is crap when it comes to computer crime, but if you get the boys at the NSA, the FBI or at Secret Service interested, you're going to be spending a lot of quality time exercising in a little room with metal bars for a wall. And, if you have any sort of "ideological" basis for your acts, I wouldn't be surprised to hear the word "terrorism" creep into the DA's vocabulary at some point during your legal proceedings.
I'm sorry for the confusion. I'm not endorsing that people break into other people's accounts. What I am saying, is that I don't really think that the script kiddies that (I'm assuming) did this truly realize the extent of the deep guano that they've just gotten themselves into.
I won't feel bad that these people get punished for their crimes. I will feel bad if these people have charges of "terrorism" brought against them, which I suspect might happen.
I feel bad for the script kiddies that did this. They are going to get Mitnicked on this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
General law enforcement in the US is crap when it comes to computer crime, but if you get the boys at the NSA, the FBI or at Secret Service interested, you're going to be spending a lot of quality time exercising in a little room with metal bars for a wall. And, if you have any sort of "ideological" basis for your acts, I wouldn't be surprised to hear the word "terrorism" creep into the DA's vocabulary at some point during your legal proceedings.