Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed Hacking Team

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/12/david-pebcak-vincenzetti.html

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[RickMycroft]

And there was much rejoicing!

[Sigmund]

This is a beautiful, heartwarming story.

[brenbart]

Q: Quis pirata ipsos piratae?

A: Apparently Phineas Fisher.

[Ratel]

@doctorow

Meanwhile, the court documents reveal that Vincenzetti has pursued vendettas against former employees whom he falsely believed to be implicated in the hack, going so far as to frame them with false evidence. However, Vincenzetti was ultimately unsuccessful in his attempts to frame these workers.

So; he’s going to jail forever, right?

[Shuck]

Oh, so sad!

[DukeTrout]

@doctorow

One of the systems administrators who might have caught Fisher during their raids on Hacking Team’s data was reportedly distracted by a weeks-long World of Warcraft binge, allowing Fisher to operate with impunity.

I always knew Blizzard was making the world a better place.

[GulliverFoyle]

Sadly, the company is still limping along thanks to investment from Saudi Arabian company brokered by a lawyer known to work with the Saudi Arabian government.

The basic idea, of hackers going into business as private cyber-arms merchants, won’t be going back into Pandora’s box.

Whether or not they’re customers any longer, the US agencies FBI, CIA, DEA and Department of Defense were all at one point HackingTeam clients.

[Trent_Baker]

World of Warcrack, its a helluva drug.