Wi-Fi Hacker gets 18 years!

[BigSix 10+ year member]

No this is how you troll son!

Minnesota Wi-Fi hacker gets 18 years in prison for terrorizing neighbors - Yahoo! News

Minnesota hacker Barry Ardolf was sentenced to an 18-year term in a federal prison this Tuesday. Ardolf had terrorized a neighboring family for two years through a carefully planned campaign involving a hijacked Wi-Fi network to harass, frame and embarrass the next-door neighbors in every facet of their lives.

Ardolf’s obsessive passive-aggression was apparently ignited in late 2008 when his neighbors, Matt and Bethany Kostolnik, filed a police report against him. The Kostolniks had a 4-year old son who wandered over to their next-door-neighbors property shortly after moving into the Minnesota suburb of Blaine. Ardolf, 46 and a father of two, had reportedly picked the boy up carried him back to the couple and then kissed the child on the lips. Ardolf was offended when the cops were called and vowed his revenge like every good villain.

The man, a Medtronic computer technician, downloaded a Wi-Fi hacking program to tear into his neighbors WEP encryption. Ardolf created a fake Myspace page as well as several fake emails for Matt Kostolnik. The hacker then posted child **** on the Myspace page and emailed the same child **** to co-workers at Kostolnik’s law office.

To top it all off, the Blaine hacker sent death threats to Vice President Joe Biden and other politicians from Kostolnik’s Yahoo account. This granted Kostolnik a visit from the secret service who had traced the emails back to his IP address. One of the emails told Biden, “I swear to God I’m going to kill you!”

Ardolf’s mischief was detected when a frustrated Kostolnik told bosses he had no clue as to what was going on. The law office hired a firm to poke around the Wi-Fi network and install a packet sniffer to figure it all out. Eventually Ardolf’s name and Comcast account were found which gave the FBI a reason to obtain a search warrant for Ardolf’s house. They found massive evidence that led to the Blaine hacker being slapped with charges for identity theft, making threats against Biden, possession of child *********** as well as distribution of kiddie-****.

The FBI also found evidence that Ardolf had staged a similar attack against in a family in Brooklyn Park for parking their cars in front of his house. Ardolf’s charges will tag him with lifetime-***-offender registration requirements and after his release he’ll be supervised for 20 years. According to the Pioneer Press, he’ll also be restricted when working with computers by his parole officers. The man may have been a nightmare to live next to, but is the 18 years in prison a bit overkill?

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[surreal 10+ year member]

Dude.. WEP = Xor encryption. Any lamer who can use apt-get can get into a wep network.

The guy is an idiot. Anyone who knows anything, respectively, about computers and security will agree. Thats all I will say.

Edit - Please delete this on second thought. We really dont need more misinformation around here, especially when its OT.

 

[subzero 5,000+ posts]

yahoo thinks that 18 years is overkill?. nice. what else is new?

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Seems like a bit much to me...but then again that guy seems pretty crazy so maybe it's for the best

 

[sleazebagger 10+ year member]

Dude.. WEP = Xor encryption. Any lamer who can use apt-get can get into a wep network.
The guy is an idiot. Anyone who knows anything, respectively, about computers and security will agree. Thats all I will say.

Edit - Please delete this on second thought. We really dont need more misinformation around here, especially when its OT.

Thank you....

Let the terror commence!

 

[Dirtrider4eva 10+ year member]

haha great name for your network.

yeah..he had it coming to him.. didnt cover his but so to say.

 

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

Dude got wshat he deserved....

 

[sobe3yourself. 10+ year member]

he should've gotten a lot more than that for terrorizing the family like that.

 

[Reddish Neck 10+ year member]

You know there's something wrong with Adolf, woops I mean Ardolf if he has child **** on hand to put on someone elses Myspace.

 

[06goat 10+ year member]

lulz sh!tty haxor

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Wtf was this kissing the child on the lips thing?

 

[Slayerx 10+ year member]

Wtf was this kissing the child on the lips thing?

what i was wondering, and he has kids of his own. And spreading child ****? Musta already had it, or worse, made it.

He's getting what he deserves imo

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Hackers deserve severe penalties. Its time to stand up to this crap, and make sure hackers have a real fear their actions may cause a real and scary consequence.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

I would have used an off shore VPN. Some smart technician.