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Wednesday, 28 February 2007

The story we are dealing with, is not a pure “hacking case”, but it is interesting to consider how certain skills about computers can be used to do “personal justice” in our little litigations  and, literally, where they could lead…

  

Frustrated lovers! Rejected suitors! Deceived “neckers”! Now it's your turn to take a digital revenge: if you have got a computer, basic “hacking skills” and you are ready to spend some years in the army, you can get even with inconstant, cruel girls - and also keep your record clean.

 

This is  more or less what happened to Michael Valentine, 29, a former Long Island police officer who avoided jail time for hacking into his ex-girlfriend's online dating account and setting up dates for her with men she didn't know.

  

Mr. Valentine set up his revenge by illegally getting the password of the girl’s Match.com account. Through the stolen password he logged  into the web site's online dating area, and using the girl’s identity  he arranged dates with over 70 men, most of whom showed up at the her house.

  

Last April, prosecutor  charged Mr. Valentine with 197 counts of indictment including stalking, computer tampering and harassment: heavy counts that would have brought about at least three years in prison. But instead of jailing him, judges accepted to suspend the sentence because Valentine expressed his decision to join the military.

 

By exchanging prison for army, he will be obliged to enlist within nine months .. otherwise he will be immediately jailed. 

Just a perplexity: is a girl worth of it?


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