Los Alamos National Laboratory Computer Specialist Sentenced For Hacking

Somehow the idea that this former Los Alamos National Laboratory computer specialist was sentenced to 8 months in prison for hacking just doesn’t set well. Jerome T. Heckenkamp, 25, of Santa Monica, pleaded guilty to two counts in January 2004 to hacking into and damaging the computers of several high-tech companies, including online auction giant eBay Inc.

Heckenkamp could have faced up to five years in prison but U.S. District Court Judge James Ware sentenced him to eight months in prison and eight months of electronic monitoring and home confinement. He also has to pay $268,291 in restitution and for three years cannot use a computer with Internet access without approval from a probation officer.

Heckenkamp admitted breaking into San Jose-based eBay’s computers in February and March 1999, defacing a Web page and installing malicious programs that captured usernames and passwords that he used to gain access to other eBay computers.

Heckenkamp also admitted he broke into San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc.’s computers in late 1999 and installed more so-called “Trojan” programs. At the time, he was a student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

He was arrested in January 2001 and lost his job at Los Alamos.

I am certainly glad that this in individual wasn’t working at a high security, high risk area that was detrimental to national security with a psychological make up like this. Oh, that’s right he was working at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Arby’s Sandwich Incident; Its Skin Deep

Not again? This time from Tipp City, OH where a man claims he bit into an Arby’s sandwich and found a piece of flesh about three-fourths of an inch long. This time it looks like the story is legitimate as compared to the recent Wendy’s finger incident.

Scheiding said he realized something wasn’t right when he bit into the sandwich on June 18 and found a piece of flesh about three-fourths of an inch long.

“It looked like I was seeing fingerprints on it,” he said. “I got sick and went to the bathroom.”

Miami County (search) health investigators talked to the restaurant manager, who had a bandage on his right thumb and wore a latex glove, according to a health district report. The manager said he sliced skin from the thumb while shredding lettuce, and sanitized the area but didn’t throw away the bin of lettuce, the report said. Scheiding’s sandwich contained lettuce.

“Why wasn’t the food searched, and why wasn’t it thrown away?” said Scheiding’s lawyer, Hank Hyde.

Jacko Case; This Can’t be Good

With all the spinning from the legal pundits from the 24-7 News outlets who are rarely right; I have grown absolutely tired of the Jacko Case and have put a self ban on myself until the case is over.

However, with all the roller-coaster, day to day, up and down spinning by all sides in this matter; THIS IS NEVER A GOOD SIGN.

Brian Oxman, who has long represented other members of the singer’s clan, was dumped effective last Friday, according to a “notice of disassociation” filed today by Mesereau in Santa Barbara Superior Court.

Never a good sign when your Council is seen fighting with each other, oops.

Pope Benedict XVI ; MSM Misleads Us Again

Since the election of Pope Benedict XVI the media has done nothing but print negative stories even comparing the Pope to Nazi’s. The MSM in the United States would have had us believe that a majority of Americans were against the Pope’s election. They claimed that Americans wanted a moderate or liberal Pope that was going to make the Catholic Church more user friendly. The media claimed that Americans were against Pope Benedict XVI.

A funny thing happened on the way to printing more negative and bias stories. A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that 81% of American Catholics approve of the pope’s election.

American Catholics are responding with support if not great enthusiasm to the selection of Pope Benedict XVI, and with a clear message on his first priority: addressing the issue of sexual abuse of children by priests.

Eighty-one percent of Catholics in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of the pope’s election; a quarter call themselves “very enthusiastic” about it.

His reputation as a traditionalist may be one reason: The vast majority, 80 percent, think Benedict will work to maintain church traditions — while nearly half would prefer, instead, that he modernize church policies to reflect the attitudes and lifestyles of Catholics today.

Indeed, given a list of issues, 71 percent of Catholics cite “addressing the issue of sexual abuse by priests” as the highest priority for the new pope; fewer, 41 percent, say “preserving the church’s traditions” should be among Benedict’s highest priorities.

Last on the priorities list, at 22 percent, is “responding to the concerns of women in the church.”

Seems to me that the MSM was telling us just the opposite. How could a Pope be such a popular pick if American Catholics wanted the new Pope to change all the old policies? Like here, here, and here.

If At First You Don’t Succeed … Always Stay Off the Ice

I am sure many of us have been in a position of being in front of an audience of people and forgetting what you were going to say. Only in my case it was a large board room, not a Hockey Arena.

So remember the old saying … If at first you don’t succeed try, try … BUT ALWAYS STAY OFF THE ICE WITH SHOES.

Filed Under: Who Says It Can’t Get Any Worse.