Nice fairy tale.

MafiaBoy was a Canadian teenager that perpetrated a DOS attack on Yahoo,
Dell, eBay, Amazon.com, etc. - not "hack(ing) IBM,MS,Governments etc.".

He was sentenced to 8 months in detention plus one year of probation,
which would have been up 2 years ago. His sentence didn't include any
long-term restriction on computer use.

His dad, btw, was arrested the same day as MafiaBoy was for taking out a
contract on a business colleague. Might that have anything to do with
anything?

Given that Content Advisor password removers are still sold, and free
hacks are still posted, if your 95 anecdote is true (I couldn't find
anything via Google, though it didn't sound unfamiliar), it certainly
didn't set much of a precedent.

How does one sue a newsgroup, anyway? Where and to whom would the suit
be served?


In article ,
"Peter Foldes" wrote:

Sorry to jump in here but how many of you remember the old Microsoft server
newsgroup MSNNEWS. This goes back to 95. It was moderated at the time.

There was a post there in 95 where someone posted that he set up the Content
Advisor so his kids will not be able to get into certain sites. Now he said
that he forgot the Password and needed help. He had numerous answers on how
to get around it and open it.

Well about a month later in the newspapers and TV there was the story that a
Father is suing MS and that newsgroup for telling his child on how to get rid
of that password . BTW he won the case and a large some of money.

The point is you do not know who is who and what is what.

Today that child that did that is not allowed near a computer for another 3
yrs. His nickname was the Mafia Boy. Yep the same one that made National and
International headlines when he hacked IBM,MS,Governments etc.