Comments on: Hilton hacker sentenced to juvenile hall

Teen gets 11-month sentence for hacking T-Mobile and posting data from Paris Hilton's Sidekick on the Web.

[rbannon]

Equal Under The Law!

Seems like you need to be a celebrity to get justice. Just check out
the poor sap that had his phone stolen.

Either enforce the law equally, or not at all.

[wazzledoozle]

Harsh

1 year for a teenager! Thats really harsh. If this kid had hacked his principals sidekick, he would have gotten a month, maybe weeks in jail.

Bomb threats? ***?

[Get_Bent]

Not harsh enough

The kid committed the electronic equivalent of breaking and entering. He knew what he was doing was wrong, and he did it anyway. He got off lightly with less than a year in juvie.

[M A]

Harsh????

No way, I was thinking that he got off light. Definitely should've gotten more time than that, but I guess that's what happens when people get tried as a juvenile & not as an adult.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

He didn't hack it

He didn't "hack" her phone, he guess the password - the name of her dog.

[Nael]

Hire the guy for security analyst

Why arrest him? He found a security hole in your network. A Wireless phone company thats a multinational company and this teenager was able to hack into your network. The punishment does not fit the crime. T-mobile or some security company should hire the guy. If anything fire you existing security analyst for overlooking this hole in your so called secured network.

Just a thought, instead of punishing him by saying not to use a computer, have him educate you guys on "The mind of a hacker".

I just laugh at all these stupid laws. This is another injustice.

Yes he posted her info on the web but who as a teenager has not done anything that was simple a teenage action. Come on, he's growing up, don't arrest him and imply those terms on him.

He should be hired by some Security company for finding that hole in a multinational wireless providers network. If anything, I will cancle my T-mobile service to protest this action.

See you t-mobile, hello metropcs. www.metropcs.com


Salam,
Nael Mohammad

[sphereframe]

Exactly

In general, IT security is a nightmare. If telecom billing and customer service systems are any indication then nightmare might be an understatement for that industry. Any help that we as a society can get, we should take. This kid obviously has a talent, so let's use it. I'd rather see his abilities utilized in a controled environment than wasted because we are too incompetent to know how to deal with him.