Security News > 2010 > December > U.S. attorney: Blaine hacker targeted neighbor
http://www.startribune.com/local/north/111972394.html By JAMES WALSH Star Tribune December 16, 2010 A Blaine man hacked into his neighbor's wireless Internet to send e-mails containing child pornography, sexual advances and threats to Vice President Joe Biden to smear and terrorize people who had made him angry, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. What set Barry Vincent Ardolf apart, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Rank, was his computer expertise and vindictiveness to meticulously carry out a scheme that almost succeeded in making it appear that all those things came from his neighbor's computer. Rank cautioned jurors on the first day of Ardolf's federal trial in St. Paul to not be intimidated by the technical minutiae of tapping into somebody else's wireless service and creating bogus e-mails and MySpace pages. "This case is about a dangerous man,'' Rank said in his opening arguments. "A person who got mad at his neighbors and then used his knowledge and technical training to terrorize them and try to destroy their lives." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/