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**converge** · October 31, 2001, 20:27

hahaha sounds like someone with a good imagination and the ability to express them in written and flash form... is this a joke? some lame movie or event I haven't heard of?

ok you got me... what am I missing?... lolz

**Xp0nential** · October 31, 2001, 20:34

Kim chewing Gum

This guy is a complete crook....

He made many claims of hacks and things that he never accomplished. Low life Hacker wannabee..

And the funny thing is the number of people who go lick his ass on his website forum , from lawyers to engineers to script kiddies.
But after all that's not really bad, at least it keeps them away from us :)

here are some of his stupid claims , and the truths:
(Damn he must have suffered from early child abuse or something)
Major brain damage !!

Claims
He is a hero of the cyber-underworld, looked up to by other hackers

Truth
Is barred from meetings of the Chaos Computer Club, the leading German hacker group

MYTH: Many papers reported that Schmitz lowered the credit rating of
former German chancellor Helmut Kohl to zero.

TRUTH: Credit ratings on individuals in Germany are different from the
US. There is no rating of a kind that you could "lower to zero". And
the court verdict against Schmitz has nothing to say about this.

THE LINK: According to Schmitz's verdict, he had broken into the
computers of the Deutscher Beamtenbund, a public officials' union, and
among other documents, copied the union's correspondence with the
chancellor. The Masters of Deception, a New York hacker group, lowered
the credit rating of cyber-celebrity John Perry Barlow to zero during
an online discussion in the early 1990s.

MYTH: Schmitz told the Sunday Telegraph he "got into Citibank's system
and transferred $20 million (21.4 million euros) by taking tiny
amounts from the accounts of 4 million customers and giving it to
Greenpeace".

TRUTH: Nothing like this is in the court records. In fact, there's no
link to Citibank or Greenpeace at all. A Greenpeace spokeswoman told
The Standard Europe the claim was "just not true", adding that $20
million (21.4 million euros) would have been half the organisation's
annual budget in the mid-1990s.

THE LINK: In a widely publicised case in 1996, Citibank did indeed
fall victim to a group of Russian hackers who caused $10 million (10.7
million euros) in damages. The money didn't go to Greenpeace, though.
However, the final scene in the hacker movie "Sneakers" (featuring
Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd and Sidney Poitier) is a TV news speaker
announcing that the Republican Party had to declare insolvency while
Greenpeace announces an enormous anonymous donation.

MYTH: Schmitz also told the Sunday Telegraph that "he developed the
Blue Box, software that would override the phone charging system".

TRUTH: According to the court papers, Schmitz didn't use clever
software to "override the phone charging system", but simply stolen
calling card numbers he had bought from US hackers.

THE LINK: Blue Box is the name for a hardware device which cheated the
phone charging system by simulating its signals. They were widely used
in the US, years before Schmitz was born in 1974.

MYTH: In the prospectus of his company Kimvestor, Schmitz claims to
have broken into NASA and the Pentagon.

TRUTH: Nothing like this in on the records. The spokesman of the
German hacker organisation Chaos Computer Club dismisses his claims as
"made up".

THE LINK: The hacking into a wide array of computers including those
of the NASA made the Chaos Computer Club world-known in 1988. Some of
the hackers who had done this were hired by the Soviet intelligence
service KGB and broke into computers of military research labs in the
US, but not into the Pentagon.

MYTH: Schmitz told the Sunday Telegraph "when he came out of prison he
was inundated with offers from companies... Within a week he was
working for Lufthansa".

TRUTH: According to his verdict, Schmitz was breaking into systems and
used what he found to offer those firms his advice in security matters
through an accomplice's consultancy. The accomplice was a former
Lufthansa employee and Lufthansa was among their victims. However, the
court states that it wasn't Schmitz who broke into Lufthansa's network
but another accomplice.

**Chris** · November 5, 2001, 10:37

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/272

**converge** · November 5, 2001, 12:48

that's hillarious... lends to understanding why they had to go "underground" and not deal with issues on the public site hehehe. probably too broke to hire another webdev for the site...

**Chris** · November 5, 2001, 13:54

More for your reading pleasure...

http://www.attrition.org/news/content/01-10-22.001.html

**Xp0nential** · November 5, 2001, 22:13

wow

This guy is really cheesy.
damn heh.

**omega884** · November 6, 2001, 14:15

Dear God save us all

Do people like this really exist in numbers? I thought stupididty of this magnitude was only found in american highschools. Now, I am not nore do I claim to be a cracker, nor am I associated with computer secturity, but even I know what the attrition stuff is all about. This guy is nuts. And could someone tell me what the point of Alistair saying he was an ex-chopper jock was?

**Xp0nential** · November 6, 2001, 19:02

hrm

well you wanna see more idiots like him check his site's kimble.org forum and guestbook.
Its full of them :)
later

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