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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 21:11:48
Subject: Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Blood Angel Captain Wracked with Visions
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/17/justice/massachusetts-harvard-hoax/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
(CNN) -- A Harvard University student was named Tuesday in a criminal complaint alleging he was responsible for bomb threats that led school officials to delay some final exams, including his, that had been scheduled for Monday.
Eldo Kim, 20, of Cambridge, allegedly e-mailed bomb threats at about 8:30 a.m. Monday to offices associated with Harvard, including the Harvard University Police Department and the Harvard Crimson, the student-run daily newspaper, according to the five-page complaint.
The subject line in each of the messages read "bombs placed around campus" and cited "shrapnel bombs" in four buildings on the school's main campus in Cambridge.
"2/4. guess correctly. be quick or they will go off soon," they said.
The Harvard police called in the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Secret Service; the Cambridge Police Department and the Boston Police Department along with numerous other first responders, including the Cambridge Fire Department.
The buildings were evacuated and swept by bomb technicians and hazmat officers, and access to Harvard Yard was restricted to students with Harvard IDs, according to the Harvard Gazette, the school's official news website.
Shortly before 3 p.m., long after Kim's exam had been canceled for the day, officials concluded that the threats were a hoax and reopened the buildings.
"Those who missed their exams due to the evacuation should be in touch with administrators about a makeup date or other arrangement," the Gazette said.
The e-mail messages had been sent through a service called Guerrilla Mail, which creates temporary and anonymous e-mail messages, according to the complaint. And the person had used a product called TOR, which assigns an anonymous Internet Protocol address that can be used to hide the identity of the sender, it added.
But the sender failed to do that, according to the complaint. "Harvard University was able to determine that, in the several hours leading up to the receipt of the e-mail messages described above, Eldo Kim accessed TOR using Harvard's wireless network," it said.
An FBI agent and an officer with the Harvard University Police Department interviewed Kim Monday night at his campus residence, where he "stated that he authored the bomb threat e-mails" and said he had acted alone, the complaint says.
"According to Kim, he was motivated by a desire to avoid a final exam scheduled to be held on (Monday)," the complaint said. He is to appear Wednesday in U.S. District Court before District of Massachusetts Chief Judge Judith G. Dein.
In a statement, school officials said they were "saddened by the details alleged in the criminal complaint" but had no further comment.
If convicted, the student could face a maximum of five years in prison, three years of suspended release, and a $250,000 fine.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 21:17:30
Subject: Re:Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Insect-Infested Nurgle Chaos Lord
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We'll at least he got the exam delay that he wanted...
permanently.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 21:24:08
Subject: Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Androgynous Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
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I guess he...*puts on shades* bombed his final.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 21:29:26
Subject: Re:Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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I am surprised you don't see this happen more often, really. You combine enormous pressure along with the idiocy you often see in young adults...
Also, anyone who thinks TOR is really anonymous is a fool who deserves exactly what they get. Doubly so if you can't even use it right, not that it matters.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 21:31:00
Subject: Re:Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Kid_Kyoto
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The really interesting thing here is that they managed to track him down, in spite of going over wireless and TOR.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 21:36:20
Subject: Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Shas'ui with Bonding Knife
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They should let him write the final and fail him just to be dicks.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 21:44:22
Subject: Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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lord_blackfang wrote:Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote:The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 21:45:01
Subject: Harvard Bomb Hoax
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[SWAP SHOP MOD]
Killer Klaivex
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He would have gotten away with it if he hadn't used it on the University's wireless. Idiot.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 21:52:10
Subject: Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Blood Angel Captain Wracked with Visions
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Maybe that'll be part of his sentencing
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/18 22:10:27
Subject: Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Dakka Veteran
Anime High School
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Great, someone else using tor for crime. Nice, thanks.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/19 02:24:14
Subject: Harvard Bomb Hoax
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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I saw this on the news when it was happening and wondered if it was some idiot just looking to avoid a test.
Ketara wrote:He would have gotten away with it if he hadn't used it on the University's wireless. Idiot.
I get the impression that to solve this, all the police did was to look at Harvard's own servers, to see if any students had accessed tor that day. If the idiot had accessed the site from anywhere else he probably would have got away with it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/12/19 16:59:38
Subject: Harvard Bomb Hoax
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Camouflaged Zero
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sebster wrote: Ketara wrote:He would have gotten away with it if he hadn't used it on the University's wireless. Idiot.
I get the impression that to solve this, all the police did was to look at Harvard's own servers, to see if any students had accessed tor that day. If the idiot had accessed the site from anywhere else he probably would have got away with it.
It's a bit unclear to me whether he used Tor correctly and what would have happened if he just denied his involvement. If all they've got is him accessing Tor he might have gotten away.
And since Tor is far from perfect maybe they would have shown us some of its flaws if they had to dig deeper to get to him.
Is 'Guerrilla Mail' a service inside Tor and is it used only sporadically?
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