Hacker’s Assistance to Prosecutors

By:WitchDokta

THE NEW FACE OF EVIL? OR JUST ANOTHER PATSY…..
Apparently according to wired.com’s December 22, 2009 feature story, a programmer, formerly employed by Morgan Stanley, an investment company founded in 1935, and victim of speculation of insider trading many times, a Mr. Stephen Watt, 25, pled guilty to creating a program that other hackers used to infiltrate TJX, the umbrella corporation that owns TJMaxx, TKMaxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Winners, HomeSense, and A.J. Wright, all department stores, and steal over $200 million.
Now this man has been sentenced to spend 2 years in prison, with 3 years probation afterward, and to pay back $171.5 million dollars to TJX. OK, so what happened to the other 18.5 million dollars? Do you mean to tell me that the famous TJX Corporation may have possibly LIED on their SEC filings, or maybe they just hire accountants who suck at math?
Why is this man being targeted as the next antichrist when this company should have learned its lesson back in June of 2005, you know, when the company set the record for the BIGGEST EVER data breach, with 45.6 million credit card numbers stolen, and don’t forget, personal information about people returning goods without receipts, about 451,000 of them were stolen in 2003.
Something smells very fishy about this company and I intend to investigate further in time, but I need to get back on subject, Stephen Watt, this poor man is guilty of only creating software that is designed to test the stability and security of networks, so what, so are a million other programs out there made by “legitimate” big-name software firms. It is not his fault that one of his buddies and his posse of malicious hackers downloaded his program and used it illegally, I’m sure he didn’t exactly write a manual explaining how to manipulate this program for evil, or for that matter, use it himself for anything destructive.
Do the big-names ever get sued or imprisoned for someone misusing their products? No, so why should an individual programmer? Because he doesn’t have to pay taxes because his software is free? Well, actually, that sounds about right in this day and age, because it is happening all the time with bit torrent, napster, and countless other programs associated with “piracy” and “malicious purposes”. What is sad is that Microsoft doesn’t get sued when someone uses the dos command NET USE on someone’s IP address who has printer sharing turned on and no firewall or router, that’s right, MICROSOFT BUILT A HACKING TOOL INTO THEIR OPERATING SYSTEM WTF!?!?!? I’m not going to give you the exact command here but you can easily Google net use exploits and see what i’m talking about here, it is ridiculous! How about sue Microsoft and split the money between all the people who have had their identity stolen in one form or another simply because they use Windows, nearly everyone in America would get a couple dollars!
And when did he write this program? Maybe while working for Morgan Stanley, the investment firm accused of insider trading many times over? Sounds like a tool they would use to get their trading info to me.
Possibly Morgan Stanley and TJX are in cahoots to embezzle multi-millions, and who better to pin it on than Mr. Watt and his associates?
And on a closing note, wired.com reported that the hackers were using proxies from Uganda and Latvia, how and why exactly would they know that, since Latvia and Uganda do not share digital information openly with the U.S. in the first place, last time I checked anyway. Maybe TJX has a bunch of hackers at its disposal….would explain the SEC fraud.
from: http://www.dpp.go.ug/pespectives_cyber.php
as in www.DIRECTORATE OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS.GOVERNMENT.UGANDA
Albert Gonzalez, currently awaiting to be sentenced in March 2010, was the one who provided prosecutors with the information on stephen watts and his involment in the TJX hack case. Gonzalez has also been providing prosecutors with information on the companies the group of hackers broke into and a list of companies that is vulnerable to these attacks, that gonzalez knows of.

Mutual Legal Assistance
One of the effects of information and communication technologies is the ability of individuals to commit crimes in jurisdictions to which they have never physically travelled. A successful investigation and prosecution of Cyber crime will often require mutual legal assistance from other jurisdictions as evidence from witnesses in foreign jurisdictions may be required to prove the case. The lack of harmonization of substantive international criminal laws with inadequate regimes for international legal assistance and extradition can therefore, in effect, shield criminals from law enforcement in that criminals can go unpunished in one country, while they have the efforts of other countries to protect their citizens. There has nevertheless been successful mutual legal assistance in some Cyber crime cases, for instance, in the case of United States Vs Zezov and Yarimaka (unreported) in which Zezov gained unauthorized access to the computer system of Bloomberg News Agency based in New York from computers located in Kazakhstan. Zezov demanded $200,000 from Bloomberg in ex-change for his providing information as to how he was able to hack into the company’s computer system with the help of the Kazak’s policies, FBI was able to arrest the offenders in London and had them prosecuted. It should be noted that the lesser-developed jurisdictions such as Uganda may become Cyber crime havens since they may less likely be in a position to give assistance.

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