Comments on: German social networks hacker commits suicide while in jail

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- Salisbury Computer Repair — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:36:39 +0000

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Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:10:53 +0000

This story has really shocked me. I just can not get it into my head that some onewould hurt a person for doing some thing stupid like that.

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Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:07:22 +0000

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By: Andrew G.

Andrew G. — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:26:58 +0000

It wasn’t suicide,- it was homicide.

By: German Facebook clone StudiVZ adds support for 3rd party apps – user privacy is paramount

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:59:59 +0000

[...] social networks got hacked and were subsequently blackmailed in October with the intruder finally committing suicide in jail. But also because the German online privacy laws are among the strictest in the world, even [...]

By: Hacker se Suicida en la Cárcel. ¿Juego Sucio? | POWERPYMES

Hacker se Suicida en la Cárcel. ¿Juego Sucio? | POWERPYMES — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:06:03 +0000

[...] lo estaba esperando la policía que lo llevó a la cárcel. Hasta ahí todo bien, pero ese hacker acaba ade aparecer colgado en su celda y nadie sabe porqué. Los comentarios apuntan a que StudiVZ tiene sangre en sus manos. Es en verdad [...]

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Konačno istina o Facebook grupama - The Chronicles of… — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:08:28 +0000

[...] German social networks hacker commits suicide while in jail [...]

By: Ken Aston

Ken Aston — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:18:40 +0000

@Markus

He didn’t subvert the system in my opinion.

By: Candie Caine

Candie Caine — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:40:13 +0000

This is unfortunate, a tragedy

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:35:49 +0000

you must be a uni-browed JEW

By: will

will — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:21:25 +0000

yes its tragic, but its a big leap from their to sinister.

By: Markus Goebel

Markus Goebel — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:20:30 +0000

Traditionally a hacker is someone who is skilled at subverting technological systems and making them do things they were not originally designed to do.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_hacker_mean

That’s what he did.

By: correct this pls

correct this pls — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:32:06 +0000

sorry, ‘hacking’ was not the right verb in this case. i just wanted to underline the difference between. schueler vz / studi vz / mein vz regarding to the age of the users und the fact that data of underaged pupils were involved in this case.

By: sk

sk — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:24:54 +0000

europe is full of these clones

By: not a hacker

not a hacker — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:34:38 +0000

The truth is that almost any site can be crawled, even Facebook. There is always going to be a security hole that can be exploited. Blackmailing is an issue, however!

By: David Mulder

David Mulder — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:25:01 +0000

@aardman: Not entirely true, if it was legally scraped data and he was simply selling it to the highest bidder then it was VZ fault for going to the police – who you naturally can’t expect to understand the technical difference between public and hacked data (and which HAS SUREL BEEN directly understood by VZ) – and getting him into a psychological situation where he killed himself. So in case it really was just a normal spider, then that would mean that VZ deliberately tried to make a person look like a criminal.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:23:09 +0000

Markus, if that poor fellow scraped ill-protected content then this activity by no means qualifies as criminal: consider that Google, MS, Ask, Yahoo, etc, do it all the time. A crawler is like a blind person: if you keep the doors of your house open, he’d come in and you cannot blame him for doing that.

By: Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:37:30 +0000

Hacker, lol.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:26:29 +0000

That’s not really true is it? Hacking hasn’t got any easier, there are just more sites and some still make mistakes. There’s plenty of secure data out there. Anyway, this wasn’t any kind of hack. and… “Without the whole blackmail thing, he would have done nothing wrong” – you could say that about any crime.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:15:27 +0000

Have a look at the following (older) screenshots on why studiVZ could be called a facebook clone:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16946748@N00/257274969

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bumi/285541845/

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:03:21 +0000

Nope – they just copied the idea – but studivz made a 1:1 copy and just changing the blue color into red. there are rumors that there was even remainings of the facebook code in studivz’s stylesheets.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:54:52 +0000

sad story

By: aardman

aardman — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:53:07 +0000

It’s not the harvesting of data (whether it was hacked or just scraped). It’s the attempted extortion that got him into trouble. That he killed himself is not anything that can be blamed on the victim of the extortion attempt. They just did what any extortion victim is supposed to do – report it to the police. Sheesh.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:40:06 +0000

So are you going to start calling Facebook a Friendster and Classmates.com clone?