OT: Former RU Student Pleads Guilty to 2016 Worldwide Internet Crash and Multiple Rutgers Hacks

[Source]

"...A former Rutgers University student pleaded guilty in federal court to being one of the architects of a computer virus that crashed websites around the world in October 2016 in one of the worst outages in the history of the internet, according to court documents...."

Remainder of story at:

https://news.url.google.com/url?sa=...ct=1513188644&usg=Blxqbdqt7GFtcIpHo6ul1IGVf-U.

 

[RU Mike73]

So we got that going for us too. [banana]

 

[RUin2WIN]

Does this help or hurt enrollment for the comp sci and comp engineering programs ?

 

[DJ Spanky]

Apparently he crashed the Rutgers computer network a number of times between 2014 and 2016.

What's amazing is the people who do this, no matter how smart they are, just can't seem to grasp the concept of making their code look generic so it doesn't get traced back to them.

 

[rurichdog]

Could have invented the next Google, Bitcoin, Facebook...nahhhh, he goes & writes malware to crash worldwide networks. We can't have nice things.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

I hope they throw the book at him.

 

[cicero grimes]

How will this affect recruiting?

 

[AreYouNUTS]

#scum

 

[PSU_Nut]

Could have invented the next Google, Bitcoin, Facebook...nahhhh, he goes & writes malware to crash worldwide networks. We can't have nice things.

So many smart and innovative people who you just wonder how much they could have made if they used that for good instead of evil.

 

[RUfromSoCal?]

How does this impact my bitcoin price?

 

[JerseyShoreKnight]

Could have invented the next Google, Bitcoin, Facebook...nahhhh, he goes & writes malware to crash worldwide networks. We can't have nice things.

So many smart and innovative people who you just wonder how much they could have made if they used that for good instead of evil.

This reminds me of one of my favorite scenes.

 

[Big East Beast]

Link didn’t work for me. There were 3 people involved. Just another script kid.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...mes-tied-to-2016-botnet-attacks-idUSKBN1E71ZB

 

[Caliknight]

Name is Paras Jha.