[nfbmi-talk] blind hacker

Wed Feb 11 19:13:23 UTC 2009

Personally I hope they give him 13 years or more! What a waste of a
brilliant mind, but he should pay and pay big.
Reggie

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Wow, I never thought that there were blind criminals in the world lmao now I
know. 

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A legally blind Massachusetts phone hacker admitted this week to federal
computer intrusion and witness intimidation charges that could put him away
for as long as 13 years.

>>> Matthew Weigman, 18, pleaded guilty to two felonies before U.S.
>>> Magistrate
>>> Judge Paul D. Stickney in Dallas on Tuesday. Known in the telephone 
>>> party-line scene as "Li'l Hacker," Weigman is widely considered one 
>>> of the best phone hackers alive.

>>> Relying on an ironclad memory and detailed knowledge of the phone 
>>> system, the teenager is known for using social engineering to 
>>> manipulate phone company workers and others into divulging 
>>> confidential information, and into entering commands into computers 
>>> and telephone switching equipment on his behalf. The FBI had been 
>>> chasing Weigman since he was 15 years old, at times courting him as 
>>> an informant. He was finally arrested last May, less than two months 
>>> after celebrating his 18th birthday.

>>> "I've been interested in phones since I've been about 8," Weigman 
>>> said in a
>>> 2007 interview with Wired.com. "I talked to technicians when they 
>>> came down here to do things on my phone."

>>> In his plea deal with prosecutors, Weigman, who was born blind, 
>>> admitted to a long criminal resume. Among other things, he confessed 
>>> to conspiring with other telephone hooligans who made hundreds of 
>>> false calls to police that sent armed SWAT teams bursting into the 
>>> homes of their party-line enemies.

>>> In a new revelation, Weigman also admitted eavesdropping on customer 
>>> service calls to Sprint, by dialing into a phone line used by Sprint 
>>> supervisors to monitor their employees. Weigman parked on the spy 
>>> line to overhear customers giving out their credit card numbers, 
>>> which he memorized and passed to accomplices. Weigman and his 
>>> friends used the numbers to purchase computers and other 
>>> electronics.

>>> The FBI began investigating Weigman after he staged a 2005 hostage 
>>> hoax that sent police to the Colorado home of Richard Gasper, a TSA 
>>> screener whose daughter refused phone sex with Weigman. When the FBI 
>>> caught up with him more than a year later, cybercrime agent Allyn 
>>> Lynd offered to make him a confidential informant, but called off 
>>> the deal when AT&T discovered that Weigman was still manipulating 
>>> the phone company.

>>> Lynd later told a police detective that Weigman couldn't stop 
>>> hacking for more than 72 hours.

>>> Weigman's current troubles began in April, the month he reached 
>>> adulthood.
>>> William Smith, a Verizon security investigator who'd been monitoring 
>>> Weigman's hacking and phoning in updates to the FBI, noticed that 
>>> Weigman had used the name and identifying information of a Texas 
>>> woman to turn on phone service at the East Boston apartment he 
>>> shared with his mother and siblings.

>>> When Smith disconnected the fraudulent account, Weigman turned it 
>>> back on again. Then Weigman began making harassing phone calls to 
>>> Smith at his house. To trick the security worker into picking up the 
>>> phone, the hacker socially engineered phone company employees into 
>>> sharing Smith's billing records in near-real time, then used Caller 
>>> ID spoofing to make Smith think someone was returning his own calls, 
>>> according to court records.

>>> "For example, Smith would call a travel agency to arrange for a flight,"
>>> the FBI's Lynd wrote in an affidavit. "A few minutes later, he would 
>>> receive a phone call which appeared to be coming from the travel 
>>> agency that he had just booked a flight through. When Smith answered 
>>> the phone, Weigman would begin harassing him again."

>>> Then on May 18, Weigman showed up at Smith's New Hampshire home with 
>>> his burly older brother. Smith felt intimidated and called the 
>>> police, who arrested the hacker.

>>> Weigman is set for sentencing on April 24. Under the terms of his 
>>> plea agreement, he can withdraw his guilty plea if sentencing judge 
>>> Barbara M.
>>> G. Lynn gives him more than 13 years in prison.

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