'Guccifer' Hacker Who Leaked Bush Paintings Is Sentenced to Jail
Source: www.nbcnews.com
'Guccifer' Hacker Who Leaked Bush Paintings Is Sentenced to Jail
A Romanian court sentenced hacker "Guccifer," who broke into the emails of former U.S. president George W. Bush's family, entertainment figures and the head of the Romanian secret service, to four years in jail on Friday.
Marcel Lazar Lehel, a cab driver by trade and known by his aliases "Guccifer" and "Small Fume," was arrested in January in Bucharest and could spend a total of seven years behind bars as he also carries a previous three-year suspended sentence.
Guccifer shot to fame in 2013 after he hacked into the Bush family emails and posted artwork by the former president, including self-portraits in the bathtub. The same year, the hacker distributed emotional emails sent to former U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell from European Parliament member Corina Cretu, a Romanian, prompting Powell to deny that they had an affair.
Guccifer also broke into a private Yahoo email account of Romania's secret service chief George Maior, which his agency said had been used before for academic correspondence.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guccifer-hacker-who-leaked-bush-paintings-sentenced-jail-n124556
Of course, the bumbling war criminal he hacked continues to walk the Earth a free man. God, this country is fucked up.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)But it was a Romanian court that convicted him, probably because he hacked the email of the head of their secret service.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)He is the one who began breaking into OUR emails and phones. I thought we were a system of laws. Bush is no different.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Just unclear on what it has to do with this case.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)'You were my greatest love of my life': Deeply personal emails sent between Colin Powell and a blonde Romanian diplomat revealed by hacker but he DENIES having an affair
The 76-year-old former secretary of state said he met Corina Cretu, a 45-year-old member of the European Parliament, 10 years ago
He said they began emailing each other in 2005 and 'the emails became of a very personal nature but did not result in an affair'
Photos reportedly sent to Powell have emerged - one in her bikini
Powell was forced to address his relationship with Cretu when notorious hacker 'Guccifer' posted some of their emails online
In the emails, Cretu describes Powell as 'the love of her life' according to The Smoking Gun
Powell has been married for 50 years to his wife, Alma, and Cretu was married last year
By HAYLEY PETERSON
PUBLISHED: 14:16 EST, 1 August 2013 | UPDATED: 11:55 EST, 3 August 2013
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382681/Colin-Powell-admits-sending-personal-emails-Romanian-diplomat-DENIES-having-affair-hacker-threatens-leak-intimate-messages.html#ixzz341k0fc5w
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)just as wrong as reading snail mail addressed to an individual. Just because the NSA does it doesn't make it right.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)But notice how the GOP can keep their hacked news secret. Powell got by most of us but had that been....put in almost any Dem official we all would have known about it within 24 hours.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)This is one guy who broke into three emails and got dirt on Colin Powell. NSA knows about every affair and peccadillo of every single member of our government and courts. That means they are using information to gain leverage over these individuals forcing them to do what they want.
valerief
(53,235 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)The whole "information MUST BE FREE" meme. He just got thrown in jail in Romania for it.
No one can have ANY secrets--that is the argument these kinds of revelations support....
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)no matter who did it.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I just don't think there's any unringing of the bell, here.
The horse is well clear of the barn.
If you store it online, if you've typed it online, if you indulge in any sort of transmission that goes out over the air, expect that someone might look at it or listen to it outside of your intended recipient.
I've always not had an expectation of privacy in this regard. We pay these putzes to deliver our emails and facilitate our phone calls, but we don't pay them enough for loyalty or privacy. We're just suckers who contribute to their bottom line, while they provide us with a convenient--but not entirely private--form of communication.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)much like the reporter of this news story. Snowden is the one that stole the information from the NSA but he did so because in his (and my) opinion, the NSA got the information illegally.
There is no comparison between exposing someone's affair from illegally read emails and exposing the NSA for spying on Americans.
MADem
(135,425 posts)If he were "simply reporting" he would do a dump and put it all out there.
Instead, he's keeping the pile of goodies, and handing it out in dribs and drabs, so he can make money off of it. He's treating national security material like a soap opera. Tune in tomorrow, to GG's Tastes of the NSA!! We give you a small bite, and leave you wanting more!!
He's monetized the stuff that Snowden stole and that he's fencing.
Lenomsky
(340 posts)I could care less who Powell emails or dates as it's his personal affairs (no pun intended).
Trust the Daily Mail to publish - Gutter Press!
MADem
(135,425 posts)They just had a succinct assessment. The lead source was CRYPTOME, followed by SMOKING GUN, and they are a source that is "document based."
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/colin-powell-guccifer-email-hack-594321
In the very personal correspondence cited by Powell, Cretu calls him the love of her life and describes a relationship that spanned more than a decade. The 2010-2011 e-mails would leave most readers with the clear impression that the forlorn Cretu is writing about the twilight of a lengthy romance.
As reported here in March, Powells e-mail and Facebook accounts were illegally accessed by Guccifer, the hacker who has spent the last eight months breaking into the online accounts of Clinton, Bush, and Obama administration officials; former FBI agents; defense contractors; Bush family members and friends; and assorted public figures, including journalist Carl Bernstein, author Candace Bushnell, and John Doerr, the billionaire venture capitalist.
Immediately after the Powell hacks, Guccifer sent some of the pilfered e-mails and photos to a variety of news outlets (and the anti-secrecy site cryptome.org, which posted the material).
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)And you can be sure that Obama has and had a pretty clean background or he would not have thrown his hat in the ring. Had Powell run for President I am certain that one his GOP colleagues would have leaked this all over the media.
reddread
(6,896 posts)while Powell was promoting his book pre 96.
try and dig up that press conference.
I dont expect I'll ever find it, but I remember it.
they can disappear dirt like that effortlessly.
but any little detail they wish to use against the "enemy"
remains vital and viable.
this seems to capture the spirit of the time, before the lineup rolled out their no way Colin event.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-05-25/news/1995145189_1_colin-powell-bob-dole-powell-run
MADem
(135,425 posts)Now, though, I am wondering why ALMA was so adamantly against the whole idea of CP running.
Where there's smoke, there's fire, and maybe he's done this kind of thing before..?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)fuck bush and his 'art' also. He talentless, a war criminal of the highest order and a idiot-moran. I feel sorry for this person. To have gotten into trouble because of a POS like bush. It's outrageous.
hack89
(39,171 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)should have covered his tracks better.
gerogie2
(450 posts)They went easy on him the first time, but if you push your luck you're gonna pay for it.
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Something's rotten somewhere.
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)like exposing crimes against humanity. But paintings?? Love emails?? What a waste of time!
El Shaman
(583 posts)he was close to getting the Karl Rove lost e mails!!??
icymist
(15,888 posts)A quick dogpile search reveals that these may have been Dumbya memorializing his masturbating in various places throughout his house!
http://mannishblonde.com/?p=73 (Oh please be true!) and then sending the paintings to his sister, Dorothy!
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/02/nude-self-portrait-george-w-bush-critique
Might he be known to history as the masturbating pResident? Talk about dicking around, right Dick Cheney?
If this is true then the white house must be decontaminated immediately!!! There are children living there for crying out loud! CHILDREN!
EEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!
corkhead
(6,119 posts)for subjecting the world to those gawd awful paintings