{"id":1295,"date":"2006-12-23T01:51:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T01:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-12-23T01:53:31","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T01:53:31","slug":"this_was_funny_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"This Was Funny Even Before I Read That He Was A Congressional Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/?q=node\/9999\" target=\"browser\">NetworkWorld<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Congressional aide admits trying to hire hackers &#8212; to boost his college GPA<\/b><br \/>\nBy Paul McNamara on Thu, 12\/21\/2006 &#8211; 6:59pm<\/p>\n<p>\nThe communications director for Montana&#8217;s lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire &#8212; with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA &#8212; during an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attrition.org\/postal\/z\/033\/0871.html\" target=\"browser\">exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nTodd Shriber, 28-year-old press aide to U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., e-mailed the security Web site attrition.org on Aug. 9, writing: &#8220;I need to urgently make contact with a hacker that would be interested in doing a one-time job for me. The pay would be good. I&#8217;m not sure what exactly the job would entail with respect to computer jargon, but I can go into rough detail upon making contact with a candidate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n(Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/?q=node\/10015\" target=\"browser\">Shriber fired<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You HAVE TO click through and read the email correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>The future leaders of America, you betcha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guy who got p0wned by fake hackers on attrition.com turns out to be &#8211; a Congressional Aide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}