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Jonathan James​Jonathan James was known as “c0mrade” on the Internet. What is his ticket to fame? He was convicted and sent to prison for hacking in the United States–all while he was still a minor. At only fifteen years of age, he managed to hack into a number of networks, including those belonging to Bell South, Miami-Dade, the U.S. Department of Defense, and NASA.Yes, James hacked into NASA’s network and downloaded enough source code to learn how the International Space Station worked. The total value of the downloaded assets equaled $1.7 million. To add insult to injury, NASA had to shut down their network for three whole weeks while they investigated the breach, which cost them $41,000.The story of James has a tragic ending, however. In 2007, a number of high profile companies fell victim to a massive wave of malicious network attacks. Even though James denied any involvement, he was suspected and investigated. In 2008, James committed suicide, believing he would be convicted of crimes that he did not commit.Kevin Mitnick​Kevin Mitnick’s journey as a computer hacker has been so interesting and compelling that the U.S. Department of Justice called him the “most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history.” His story is so wild that it was the basis for two featured films.What did he do? After serving a year in prison for hacking into the Digital Equipment Corporation’s network, he was let out for 3 years of supervised release. Near the end of that period, however, he fled and went on a 2.5-year hacking spree that involved breaching the national defense warning system and stealing corporate secrets.Mitnick was eventually caught and convicted, ending with a 5-year prison sentence. After serving those years fully, he became a consultant and public speaker for computer security. He now runs Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC.Albert Gonzalez​Albert Gonzalez paved his way to Internet fame when he collected over 170 million credit card and ATM card numbers over a period of 2 years. Yep. That’s equal to a little over halfthe population of the United States.Gonzalez started off as the leader of a hacker group known as ShadowCrew. This group would go on to steal 1.5 million credit card numbers and sell them online for profit. ShadowCrew also fabricated fraudulent passports, health insurance cards, and birth certificates for identity theft crimes totaling $4.3 million stolen.The big bucks wouldn’t come until later, when Gonzalez hacked into the databases of TJX Companies and Heartland Payment Systems for their stored credit card numbers. In 2010, Gonzalez was sentenced to prison for 20 years (2 sentences of 20 years to be served out simultaneously).Kevin Poulsen​Kevin Poulsen, also known as “Dark Dante,” gained his fifteen minutes of fame by utilizing his intricate knowledge of telephone systems. At one point, he hacked a radio station’s phone lines and fixed himself as the winning caller, earning him a brand new Porsche. According to media, he was called the “Hannibal Lecter of computer crime.”He then earned his way onto the FBI’s wanted list when he hacked into federal systems and stole wiretap information. Funny enough, he was later captured in a supermarket and sentenced to 51 months in prison, as well paying $56,000 in restitution.Like Kevin Mitnick, Poulsen changed his ways after being released from prison. He began working as a journalist and is now a senior editor for Wired News. At one point, he even helped law enforcement to identify 744 sex offenders on MySpace.Gary McKinnon​Gary McKinnon was known by his Internet handle, “Solo.” Using that name, he coordinated what would become the largest military computer hack of all time. The allegations are that he, over a 13-month period from February 2001 to March 2002, illegally gained access to 97 computers belonging to the U.S. Armed Forces and NASA.McKinnon claimed that he was only searching for information related to free energy suppression and UFO activity cover-ups. But according to U.S. authorities, he deleted a number of critical files, rendering over 300 computers inoperable and resulting in over $700,000 in damages.Being of Scottish descent and operating out of the United Kingdom, McKinnon was able to dodge the American government for a time. As of today, he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.Source: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-of-the-worlds-most-famous-hackers-what-happened-to-them/

Undeniably. The deniers are extremely ill-informed. The Republican candidate’s brother was the Governor of Florida. His administration undertook a program under the guise of a felons list to purge African-American voters from the rolls. Their database scoured the felon rolls of other states for names — even when those states did not remove felons’ voting rights. They construed names liberally — so if a Charles Stevens was a felon, they would scrub the registration of Steven Charles. This program is estimated to have cost Al Gore 50,000 votes in Florida.Even so, the vote count was very close. Some of the counties underwent recounts. In Miami-Dade County, the recount was disrupted in the “Brooks Brothers riot” when Republican operatives flown in for the occasion demanded successfully that the recount be stopped.The Supreme Court stopped the counting of votes on the loopy logic that the prestige of Bush’s election victory might be tarnished if a recount showed that he did not get the plurality of votes. Significantly, the Supreme Court declared that the decision was a one-time deal, with no value as precedent. Also, the 5 who voted to hand the election to Bush had all been appointed to their offices by Bush’s daddy, George Hubert Walker Bush, or Bush’s daddy’s boss, Ronald Reagan.Over 600 law school professors signed a statement protesting the decision, declaring that it was not the Supreme Court’s business to stop the counting of votes.A consortium of newspapers undertook a survey of the Florida ballots. The preliminary report was released in May of 2001, and found that Bush did indeed win in Florida. But the ballot count went on. Early in the fall, the final report was due to be released. The NLG was preparing a campaign to impeach the “felonious five” who voted to put Bush in office.And then history intervened. Early in September, 2001, W’s approval ratings shot up from 55% to 90%.When the report on the final recount was finally released in November, Bush was the War President, nobody cared any more about hanging chads. There was anthrax in the mails, and the media were totally intimidated. Most of the articles about the subject framed the report in such a way as to legitimize Bush, and they buried the information at the bottom paragraph that Gore actually got more votes, and made that fact seem insignificant. Osama bin Laden saved Bush’s bacon.The Washington Post, though it placed the article under a misleading headlines, was at least honest enough to acknowledge reality at the top of the article. “An examination of uncounted ballots throughout Florida found enough where voter intent was clear to give Gore the narrowest of margins”.Florida Recounts Would Have Favored Bush

MUST READ: Washington Post: The last days of a covid-19 prisoner - Florida Action CommitteeFor some reason, I cannot copy and paste from the article. This is the second time I’m, not able to transfer information from a particular identified website.A man, after 20 years out of prison on probation was arrested for something that was not apparent to the reporter. He was put into jail and when the pandemic COVID-19 began to threaten people in jail, the judge who sentenced him to time in jail ordered Charles Hobbs to be released from jail and put on house arrest. The reason for the release to house arrest was because he had congenital heart failure, kidney failure, and hypertension.For some apparent reason unknown to the reporter, the judges order had not been immediately followed, and Mr. Hobbs developed symptoms of COVID-19 and was found unconscious in his cell. They revived him and was transferred to another cell with COVID-19 prisoners. “He got sicker and ultimately died alone in a Miami hospital on May 2.”“After 22 years, Charles Hobbs tried to overcome his mistakes he made in 1997. But the stigma of a sex offense followed him all his life. Thanks to punitive laws, dizzying registration requirements, and an indifferent corrections staff, his mistake would ultimately lead to his death.”Now, the question is “Was this an unfortunate isolated situation?” I will tell you this. Back in 2017 I was arrested for a technical violation of probation. I forgot my GPS on the way to dialysis that morning. I thought I had packed it as I had done for the previous 338 visits, but that day I was apparently distracted and when my shuttle-bus came to pick me up, I left the GPS at home. The bus could not turn me around because the driver had other passengers in the bus as well. I called my probation officer on the way to the hospital and told him I would immediately arrange for a bus to take me home. I was willing to miss my session or reschedule it once I got my GPS with me. My probation officer said that the treatment was too important to cancel so I was to call him when I left dialysis and when I arrived back home. When I arrived back home (having gotten close to my GPS) my probation officer knew I was home.I was able to produce documentation of precisely where I was and at what time. I was able to provide probation a copy of the bus manifests both ways — going to dialysis and coming back home from dialysis — times of pickup and times of dropoffs both ways. I was able to show my treatment sheet AS I WAS TAKING DIALYSIS because I was monitored every 15 minutes for blood pressure and fluid removal. I also found an article on the net that showed a correlation between a dialysis patient with high creatinine (garbage in the bloodstream between dialysis sessions) level and short-term memory loss. I got that idea from my Social Worker for dialysis patients who said short-term memory loss is pretty regular for dialysis patients, and also why that was. All that documentation was sent to Miami-Dade where I had committed my crimes — coincidentally in 1997.I live in Orlando, and Miami-Dade, irregardless of me being able to categorically prove where I was without that GPS at any given time that day, swore out an arrest order for Orange County to hold me until M-D picked me up to take me down there to jail. I was in Orange County for a solid month where I received dialysis 3X a week M/W/F for 3 hours per session. My dialysis treatments as an outpatient at Florida Hospital East Orlando were 4 hours. So within that month, I lost a total of 12 hours of dialysis I would never get back. The day before Thanksgiving, M-D picked me up and I ended up at TGK (Turner Guildord-Knight) jail near Miami Int’l Airport. I was there for 15 days (half of it in a psych ward — their thinking was I was crazy when I committed the crimes in 1997, so I must be crazy now). I was in a single man cell 24/7 and I received NO DIALYSIS. They could not allow it as a member of the psych ward. I was eventually transferred down to the medical section of TGK for the remainder of my stay and I had two dialysis treatments 8 days apart from each other. The last one was the day before I was to be released I was taken to a dialysis center in Coral Gables, in shackles, in a special area walled off from other dialysis patients, as 2 burly officers and I walked through a back door. Those sessions were 3 hours as well.By the time I was released and my youngest son took me back to Orlando I had lost 30 pounds and without the prescribed dialysis, I was very sick. Unable to walk more than 2 steps before I felt like I was going to fall out. A wheelchair was begrudgingly supplied but not without the officer’s verbal crap wishing I would just die. I was home on Friday, December 9th, 2017. On Monday, December 12 2017, I went to dialysis after my long absence and my Nephrologist who just had a general Idea of where I was “missing in action” after a short conversation, he admitted me to the hospital where I stayed for a solid 2 weeks to undo what Miami-Dade and in part what Orange County did to me for the 45 days I was “gone”.So if Miami-Dade allowed this to happen to a COVID-19 patient … a convicted sex offender under some kind of violation … I do not think this was an isolated incident. It may be the first that the news media got wind of, but probably not the first pandemic death in jail chalked up to something else like natural causes.