Constitutional Court Hacker Gets One Year And Six Months In Jail

[webfact]

A hacker. Photo: Richard Patterson http://www.comparitech.co (CC BY 2.0)

 

by TNR Staff

 

THE HACKER who broke into the Constitutional Court website and changed the name to kangaroo court was jailed for one year and six months and fined 87,227 baht, Naewna newspaper said.

 

The Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek said in its verdict that the defendant, Mr. Wachira Suphathien, 34, had pleaded guilty on the charges of illegally hacking the Constitutional Court’s website and changing the name to kangaroo court.

 

In doing so the defendant had illegally accessed a protected computer system and data with the intention of damaging, destroying, modifying, altering or supplementing in part or the whole system so that it halts, slows down, is interrupted or disrupted.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/08/18/constitutional-court-hacker-gets-one-year-and-six-months-in-jail/

 

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[Callmeishmael]

I guess the truth hurts!

[kidneyw]

Pity they could not have used his talents to fix some Thai web sites.

[hotchilli]

23 hours ago, webfact said:

The Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek said in its verdict that the defendant, Mr. Wachira Suphathien, 34, had pleaded guilty on the charges of illegally hacking the Constitutional Court’s website and changing the name to kangaroo court.

I guess computer studies at schools will now be curbed.

[zzaa09]

10 hours ago, kidneyw said:

Pity they could not have used his talents to fix some Thai web sites.

I'm surprised that the not very tech savvy Thai Interweb Gestapo caught up with 'im. 

Would of been nice, even investigative journalism, for the not so extensive article to provide such details.

Shouldn't expect anything - or follow up - from the state controlled media. 

[brianthainess]

Even the courts don't know the law,  "....However  it turned out that the Constitutional Court cannot claim reputable damages.... " luckily he had a good lawyer. 

[zzaa09]

8 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Even the courts don't know the law,  "....However  it turned out that the Constitutional Court cannot claim reputable damages.... " luckily he had a good lawyer. 

The judicial system make up their own laws and interprets such for their own convenience and the interests of the ruling elite.....as it has historically played out and where the "set in stone" Constitution has been easily modified and forged dozens of times over the last few generations. The stayed term, Constitutional Monarchy, appears to contradict itself by the nature of sound political systems.

[Joseph98765]

So .... a hacker who should know how to hide his IP, DNS,... how they caught him? 55555