'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest

'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-05-15

Former pro-Napster hacker Robert "Pimpshiz" Lyttle is revealed as one-half of the mysterious Deceptive Duo, and sentenced to house arrest for violating his no-more-hacking probation rules.

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker on House Arrest 2002-05-15
Not Really Anonymous

If the intent of the Deceptive Duo was to secure "America's" infrastructure, then why didn't they just offer their services to corporations, non-profits and government agencies for free?

I think a focused vulnerability assessment would have been more effective than breaking into a web server. Se...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-16
Anonymous (1 replies)

The feds should be thanking them...not arresting them. It's obvious the feds can't secure their computer systems.

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-18
Stew (2 replies)

It is obvious you do not know what you are talking about,. Defacement of a government website is a major security flaw? All that was broke into was some old box running a web sever with the website on it. This box has nothing to do with the government servers and will never be hooked into a governme...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-20
Anonymous GP

This is information warfare. I understand that they don’t have confidential information on the web site but the web sites are considered trusted. If you know anything about security you know that that is important....

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-22
Anonymous

im with stew! these kids could know nothing about networks, hacking, cracking whatever you want to call it. The government is dumb but they are not that dumb. Most of their sites are not connected to government networks. They also said that they found confidential information. The information that t...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-17
DARKONE (1 replies)

The major problem I see here, is that a "youngster" embaressed a few oldtimers. He also did what was necessary to force our government into taking a better look at flaws in their systems. Were if NOT for lazy administrators, he never would have been able to hack into a dod computer using a default p...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-19
ld (1 replies)

They should never hire these kiddiots. They used default passwords and canned exploits, very little knowledge and no skill there. In fact these kiddiots didn't even show us that are government computers are insecure. Some computers have to be connected to the net and others are suppose to be on...

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Re: 'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-20
Not Really Anonymous

I would have to agree with you and would like to add a couple things.

The "duo" didn't do this for the United States, they did it for themselves. They basically hid their actions under so called "patriotism", when in fact they're just looking for fame and glory, just like every other script kidd...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-17
Anonymous

"Fight The Power"

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-17
Anonymous

So slap his hand and let him go.

work in the bad guys and spend the cash to fix your holes...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-18
Anonymous (1 replies)

If he broke into your house and destroyed some property, you would be asking for him to be arrested. It won't matter if he was "just trying to improve your security"....

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-20
Anonymous GP

THIS IS NOT A HOME!!! Its A Government. I PAY THEM to keep their $#!t in line....

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-18
Anonymous (2 replies)

THEY ARE DOING OUR COUNTRY A BIG FAVOR HOWEVER AND WHATEVER THEY THINK (GOVERNMENT) THEY KNOW WHAT IS IN STAKE FOR THEM I AM GLAD THEY HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO THIS...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-19
Hiroshima Bomb (1 replies)

> THEY ARE DOING OUR COUNTRY A BIG FAVOR HOWEVER

> AND WHATEVER THEY THINK (GOVERNMENT)

Big favor how? I doubt you have ever done computer forensics before on a compromised machine. For all the time spent trying to make sure dolts like Lyttle didn't include root-kits on the rest of the compute...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-21
Anonymous

Ok,but then you could also go after the ones that installed you the security alarms(if any), as they were properly asked to do.

And if they did it wrong, poorly, or nothing at all, then they would receive the same treatment-

BTW "Berretta" not "Berreta", with a "Berreta" you might shoot paintbal...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

AMEN...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-20
Anonymous

I second that....

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-19
Anonymous

I suppose some rather broad parallel could be drawn between them and say MLK or Gandhi - breaking the law to draw attention to their cause (albeit a little less morally just).

It is suspicious though that these two seem to find their moral outrage best expressed in a form that is sometimes seen a...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-19
Anonymous

Mr. Lyttle knew exactly what he was doing and knew he was breaking the law. His lawyer can spout all that trival of he was doing it for his country. So now govt. IT guys can spend their time chasing The Dumb Duo instead of spending time doing what these lame heads want. Lyttle should try working ...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-19
John - DCX (1 replies)

I think what they have done can be reprimended by just a slap on the hand. It is true that they have broken the law, but they did do a favor by helping the administrator fix the holes as they told them how they did it. Now if it was a real terrorist that had done that, he would have copied all the i...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-20
Anonymous

What Lyttle did was against the law and he knew it. He needs to be taught something here. All this was an exuse to hack. As far as a terrorist copying vital info, those servers don't carry any. There are a few servers that are accessible from the net that do, but if you think that the also store pub...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-19
Someone else

In my book, there no fame in hacking a server with a default or blank password ... this guy was looking for the "easy kill". Its just another kind of mafia boy, a teenager with too many free time....

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-21
MF Big Corp

Let's face it folks ... and unsecured web server should be looked at as an 'attractive hazard' ... you're asking for trouble be leaving out there.

You can hardly blame the kiddies ... they are just swinging at low hanging fruit. In the end of the day people are more aware! And anyone in securi...

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Idiots 2002-05-21
Anonymous

All idiots!!! Join the world and you might understand the ignorant comments that you have all written here....

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-22
Oussama

I think I should take those two guys with me, and thank one more time US Government !

Ah.... i forgot... the story doesn't tell what becames the lazy admins ! LOL

PS : this pseudo is a joke... don't flame yourself ;)...

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Flak Jackets? Poor Baby - hasn't anyone heard of Operation Sundevil? 2002-05-22
Anonymous

Where my house in Texas was raided by SS agents wearing bullet proof vests with CAR-15's, pistols, and more?

Poor baby - you hack web sites for whatever reason, and that's what you get....

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-23
tOaStEr

these kiddies are slackers, the Admins bigger slackers.

and OH yes let`s make sure we still allow computer access

at school, what a joke. Would I allow access to these wheezers.

I think not. ...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-23
Anonymous (3 replies)

Personally I think the Goverment needs to crack down on all hackers. Start giving these idiots sentances ranging from 10 to 20 years, and you will see a lot less hackers out there.

Thier claim that they were doing it to show weaknesses is bullsh?t. This kid should not be allowed anywhere near a c...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-24
No such thing as Anonymous

"Personally I think the Goverment needs to crack down on all hackers. Start giving these idiots sentances ranging from 10 to 20 years, and you will see a lot less hackers out there. "

This was a very lame statement. There still will be hackers out there in the wild. If the .gov made it 20 or 30...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-24
MF Big Corp

and for the admins? What do you have to say about them?...

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'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Under House Arrest 2002-05-27
Byter

Again, not condoning hacking or cracking of any sort (ethical or not), HOWEVER let's say the penal system sentenced hackers to 10-20 years. So the amount of hacking in the US drops significantly and now there really is no reason to keep on top of securityproblems is there. Why spend time and resou...

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