The Pentagon with all its system security programs and immune defense system got hacked by 22-year-old Ehud Tenenbaum. The Israeli hacker, known as the Analyzer, who scared the US defense shitless was NOT sentenced to jail… not even for a single day… I wonder why, but I guess the answer is obvious enough.
'The Analyzer' was sentenced in Israel to six months of community service for a series of intrusions into U.S. Defense Department computers that triggered America's first full-blown info war false alarm. Ehud Tenenbaum, 22, also received one year of probation, and a two-year suspended prison sentence that can be enforced if he commits another computer crime within three years. Additionally, the hacker was fined 75,000 New Israeli Sheqalim, about $18,000 U.S. dollars.
In February, 1998, dozens of unclassified Pentagon systems were suffering what then-U.S. deputy defense secretary John Hamre insisted was "the most organized and systematic attack to date" on U.S. military systems. The attacks exploited a well-known vulnerability in the Solaris operating system for which a patch had been available for months, but they came at a time of heightened tension in the Persian Gulf. Hamre and other officials became convinced they were witnessing a sophisticated Iraqi 'information warfare' attacked aimed at disrupting troop deployment in the Middle East.
Tenenbaum's sentence will have him working full time for six months of unpaid community service, such as in a hospital or a school, beginning in July. Boaz Guttman, the former lead Israeli investigator in the case, says the hacker got off easy. "He caused huge damage in the U.S., and tomorrow this criminal will be in the local papers as a hero," says Guttman, now a computer law professor at Ruppin Academic Center. "In the United States, they say we are a state of hackers."
I guess what the United States said about Israel is right, being a state of hackers, but I think they hacked a lot more than just a computer system… They hacked lives, deleted their systems, and they took over their desktops!!