10+ years ago I almost ended up in court for hacking IRC Cop status on an IRC server.
When I first got into the internet I came across IRC chat. While in a chat channel my PC kept crashing and eventually I found out that sending a corrupted TCP packet caused the crash. I spent a while finding how that caused the crash and how to stop it from happening to me again. Also how to do that and other things to other PC's
To cut a long story I went on to "I wonder if it is possibe to...." and trace-ablilty back to me didn't even enter into it. Before going to work one day I noticed that my internet access did not work, so while at work I phoned my ISP to complain only to be transfered to the guy in charge of that ISP.
He explained that he'd received information that I'd hacked into a IRC server and that possible prosecution could happen. With a lot of frantic talking between me, him and the IRC team I managed to get my internet access restored and no further action taken.
After that I deleted the hacker info and tools I had, removed my accounts from hacked servers and have not looked into it ever since.
I'm glad I got caught when I did because no doubt I would of progressed on from there to other things and the outcome could of been a lot different than a slap on the wrist.
When I first got into the internet I came across IRC chat. While in a chat channel my PC kept crashing and eventually I found out that sending a corrupted TCP packet caused the crash. I spent a while finding how that caused the crash and how to stop it from happening to me again. Also how to do that and other things to other PC's
To cut a long story I went on to "I wonder if it is possibe to...." and trace-ablilty back to me didn't even enter into it. Before going to work one day I noticed that my internet access did not work, so while at work I phoned my ISP to complain only to be transfered to the guy in charge of that ISP.
He explained that he'd received information that I'd hacked into a IRC server and that possible prosecution could happen. With a lot of frantic talking between me, him and the IRC team I managed to get my internet access restored and no further action taken.
After that I deleted the hacker info and tools I had, removed my accounts from hacked servers and have not looked into it ever since.
I'm glad I got caught when I did because no doubt I would of progressed on from there to other things and the outcome could of been a lot different than a slap on the wrist.