Deal or No Deal? Accused Hacker Rejects 2-Year Prison Plea, Faces 20 Years Instead
Deal or No Deal? Accused Hacker Rejects 2-Year Prison Plea, Faces 20 Years Instead
Posted 06/28/2010 at 5:40am
| by Paul Lilly
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Had 45-year-old Barry Ardolf, an accused hacker living in Minnesota, been on an episode of "Deal or No Deal," the audience would have been screaming for him to take the deal. Only in this case, Howie Mandel was no where to be seen and the stakes were decidedly higher.
The deal was for 2 years in prison in connection to charges accusing him of hacking into a neighbor's computer and using it to send Vice President Joe Biden a threatening email. His lawyer said the decision to reject the plea "was a difficult one," and those words may come back to haunt Ardolf.
According to authorities, Ardolf now faces up to 20 years in prison after additional charges were tacked on. He's looking at up to 10 years for two child-porn accusations, and five years each for two hacking charges.
Ardolf is currently out on $25,000 bail with the conditions that he be denied Internet access and must surrender his electronic devices, including his iPhone.
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tri8gman
June 28, 2010 at 11:42am
Oh, yes, I bet he hacked into his neighbor's wifi real good. I bet they had RADIUS and everything on that thing...
I find the extremely loose use of the word "hacker" and "hacking" to be annoying. He probably was juuuust savvy enough to learn how to crack the WEP. I'm wondering whether he actually used the computer, or just scooped up the login to the email via packet sniffing the network... I do see one of the articles mention he's a "computer technician" but that's such a general description...
Even so, 5 years for "hacking?" Bullshit. How long would he get for breaking and entering/trespassing, with a side of stealing service? Not siding with this particular individual, I'm just commenting on the law.
And sending a threatening email to the Vice President? He's a dumbass just for that much.
I wonder why he seems to hate his neighbor so much, though. I also wonder how they traced it to him, although it could have been "I've been hacked! My neighbor hates me and knows computers! Go search his stuff!"
TheZomb
June 28, 2010 at 2:59pm
I'm guessing they used the neighbors routers logs combined with the emails send time and if the email provider keeps logs it would also be fairly easy to see if it was someone elses comp sending the messages. He may have even been dumb enough to continue connecting to his neighbors computers.
Meatgrinder
June 28, 2010 at 7:40am
That's how long he'll have to regret not taking the deal. The thought of two years in prison must have been weighing on his tiny pee brain.
Well the fat bastard will have time in prison to work off all that fat. Fat F*ck.
BeEazy10
June 28, 2010 at 6:27am
I understand hacking into someone computer. But sending threat to the vice president threw Emails using he neighbor ip address he must have really hated his neighbor, and child porn.... wow dude really?
But this article made me laugh. 5 stars lol!!!! put up a rating system please lol
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