Written by: TechAnonymous
“Guilty” is the verdict handed down to Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (co-founder of The Pirate Bay) in the biggest hacking investigation and trial in Denmark’s history. Mr. Warg and his 21 year old co-defendant (whose name was withheld for his privacy…?) were purported to having hacked into The American IT giant CSC. Guilty, even though Danish authorities had found no forensic evidence and what “proof” they did have had been provided by ….CSC.
Apparently when Mr. Warg got himself into the CSC servers, he accessed and allegedly stole email addresses, passwords and other information of over 10,000 policemen, snooped around the European border control database and snatched a few million social security numbers of Danish citizens. If it’s true I can understand the Danish government’s “uneasiness”. All of this supposedly occurred over a period of 6 months during the initial breech. Although it happened from about February to August in 2012 it still brings to light a few interesting thoughts.
According to Warg’s defense team the hacks were definitely carried out on a computer that was OWNED by Warg. This same computer was accessed by a number of different developers in Warg’s group and any one of them could have been the responsible party. This seems to mirror the idea that, if you lend someone your car and they accidentally kill a person with it, YOU are responsible. It’s definitely an arguable point.
The big, ugly, greasy monkey wrench in that whole theory is Mr. Warg’s own record and reputation since getting accused of this invasion. He was initially arrested in his apartment in Cambodia In September of 2012 but, before Denmark could extradite him, He was deported to Sweden to serve jail time for copyright theft because of being involved with TPB (The Pirate Bay). While in Sweden he was tried yet again for hacking into a bank’s computers. He was finally taken to Denmark in November of 2013 and sat there for a bit. So, it took two years before he went to trial in Denmark for the CSC breeches. I wonder how much disappeared in that time? Subsequently, Mr. Warg was sentenced to 3.5 years jail time as opposed to the maximum of 6 years for this type of infraction to the law.
After all is now said and done per se… This little piggy would like to know if Mr. Warg was convicted by being associated with other hacking crimes or because he physically did it? Considering there was no evidence found by the computer forensics “officials” pointing directly to him as the actual culprit. Why was he convicted and his 21 year old partner (whose name was withheld to protect his privacy…*cough cough*) walked off with time served? Was Mr. Warg portrayed as a horrible man that attacked governments to a jury that really didn’t understand anything about technology? Was he a cyber-terrorist in the making? Is it all a giant, stinking pile of cow manure? The world may never know.
It seems to simply boil down to this; a man has been convicted by the legal system with evidence given to that system by a powerful company instead of investigators finding their own.
Theories? Rants? Opinions without profanity? They seem to be everywhere. Perhaps instead of prison, community service or a well paying job might be in order instead. Has anyone ever thought of using a “hack” as a job interview?
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http://thehackernews.com/2014/10/the-pirate-bay-Gottfrid-Svartholm-torrent.html
http://rt.com/news/200927-pirate-bay-founder-guilty/
The Danish police (obviously) doesn’t have any resources, so that might be a very good reason, evidence is just taken, instead of the case actually being investigated. Not that I am justifying it at all.
Because hacking is so much worse than governments killing people in war or causing starvation or killing the planet in the name of greed or raping and murdering children please these people who hand down these inane sentences need to get a life
I think it’s stupid that he went to jail for this and I’ve Dossed a lot of websites and only got a slap on the wrist, jack-potted an ATM and got community service, I’ve even hacked banks and added funds to random peoples accounts to help them out and never got even a small charge, I feel like a lot of their “evidence” was created by them and not found
Do you want to adopt me please? I could do with a brother like you” lol
How does one learn such skill? Could you point me in the right direction?
Right.. because even if they did do it, that’s not alright, but it’s alright for PRISM to carry on… business as usual
Breech?
wish someone would put funds in my account. The justice system is messed up, like the government.
im basically against the pirate bay because i believe intellectual copyright should be protected, but i haven’t read up on their motivations for file sharing. the famous producer steve albini made a wonderful case in a recent speech for ignoring copyright controls in music here:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-keynote-address-at-face-the-music-in-full .
Governments seldom have experts in hacking and even if they do all they can do is trace it to a machine or ip but not who is on it or connected to it. Kind of like if someone stole your car while you were sleeping ran someone over then returned your car. You probably will get arrested. If you don’t have a wife or gf to testify that you didn’t leave your bed that night you could end up in jail. The state will bring in their experts to testify that your car was indeed the one that did the crime so it must have been you that was driving it correct? Lesson is don’t let others use your computer or your connection, don’t have a open Wi-Fi connection. Companies will lie about what has been hacked and such I remember hacker taken to trail because company said he stole some information that cost 10’s of thousands of dollars until the hackers lawyer pointed out to the judge that the company sold the same info and more for under $20.
I can’t belive that you’re recommending ipvanish!! http://anonhq.com/be-anonymous/
Its based in the US. We all know what happens to you if you use a service located in the US!!
Is there anything we can do to make his life better in prison? Can he get mail and presents? Does he have family helping him? Could you post his address where he is now so we can send him books or anything?