Post: 17 Year Old Arrested For Hacking Black Ops
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12-09-2010, 11:39 PM
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CLM
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17 Year Old Arrested For Hacking Black Ops
A 17 year old hacker from Manchester, United Kingdom has been arrested for a hack putting Black Ops "Out of Commission". The hack was named "Denial of Service" and left many pc users unable to play the game.
Supposedly a malicious program called "Phenom Booter" was behind this. This was being put up for sale on some forums and it would allow you to score more points on COD and stop others from playing.
Activision was quick to act as they tracked his I.P. address and contacted police to have the kid arrested. He is in custody at the moment and awaiting further assessment. My thoughts when I read this was, "Was that worth it getting arrested for something as dumb as this" I mean come on, you just got yourself in a heap of trouble for a pointless hack that just makes the game unplayable for others. I can understand prestige glitching and etc. But this is taking it a little too far in my opinion. What do you guys think? Should people draw a line on hacking COD?
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12-10-2010, 01:45 AM
#29
cluckin bell
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12-10-2010, 01:47 AM
#30
V A G I N A
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12-10-2010, 02:43 AM
#31
NeglectFate
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12-10-2010, 02:58 AM
#32
FourzerotwoFAILS
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12-10-2010, 04:19 AM
#34
Pure Decimation
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Originally posted by B
It is a right to be able to edit games. It is the EXACT same thing as jailbreaking an iPhone. It is legal so he should get paid for a false arrest
Originally posted by another user
The teen was arrested on charges of violating the Computer Misuse Act, a 1990 UK law that punishes unauthorized access or modification of computer material with fines and up to five years of imprisonment.
It was illegal as stated above. The right to edit games stops when it starts to harm others experiences. He used a DDOS attack to crash servers and remove people from the game. Activision dishes out millions on this game and is not going to lose business because some 17 year old kid wants to get some revenge on a few kids that beat him in Team Deathmatch.
12-10-2010, 04:46 AM
#35
Randomination
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