• US State Dept. Employee Faces Cyberstalking, Hacking Charges
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[IMG]http://wrcb.images.worldnow.com/images/7842904_G.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]A U.S. State Department employee is accused of sending threatening emails to college-aged women in the U.S. from his computer at the U.S. Embassy in London, authorities said. A federal complaint unsealed this week in Atlanta states that Michael C. Ford accessed computer accounts of young women to obtain sexually explicit images of them. In one case, prosecutors, say, Ford posed as a Google employee to obtain the password to an Illinois woman's Google email account. Prosecutors say Ford then threatened to post the images online unless the women complied with his demands, such as requests that they shoot videos of other women undressing. Ford is facing charges that include cyberstalking and making interstate threats. Authorities apprehended him last week at Atlanta's airport as he prepared to board a flight back to London after visiting relatives in Georgia.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/us-state-dept-employee-faces-cyberstalking-hacking-charges-31208756"]http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/us-state-dept-employee-faces-cyberstalking-hacking-charges-31208756[/URL]
[QUOTE]In one case, prosecutors, say, Ford posed as a Google employee to obtain the password to an Illinois woman's Google email account.[/QUOTE] How is that hacking? Sounds more like fraud.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;47774850]How is that hacking? Sounds more like fraud.[/QUOTE] it's social engineering, that counts as hacking.
[QUOTE=confinedUser;47775025]it's social engineering, that counts as hacking.[/QUOTE] Just because you trick someone over digital communications doesn't mean it suddenly becomes hacking.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;47774850]How is that hacking? Sounds more like fraud.[/QUOTE] The moment you get a degree in Computer Science, everything you do is hacking. Murder? Nah, Person Hacking. Fraud? Hacking. Taking hostages? Hacking the system. Fear the mighty computer scientist and his pretty degree and mathematics skills.
[QUOTE=minilandstan;47776787]The moment you get a degree in Computer Science, everything you do is hacking. Murder? Nah, Person Hacking. Fraud? Hacking. Taking hostages? Hacking the system. Fear the mighty computer scientist and his pretty degree and mathematics skills.[/QUOTE] Chop firewood? You better believe that's hacking.
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