Local Man Pleads Guilty To Receiving Child Porn
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Columbus man pleaded guilty today in the United States District Court to knowingly receiving child pornography over the internet.
Reports say 37-year old Cody Sippola faces a minimum sentence of five years imprisonment, but will receive a higher sentence under the terms of the plea agreement because he also engaged in a pattern of activity involving the sexual abuse or exploitation of a minor.
According to a statement of facts read in the September 2009 plea hearing, a task force investigator was patrolling the internet looking for individuals sharing child pornography files. The investigator identified an IP address that appeared to be sharing child pornography files and found approximately 360 files at the IP address in question.
Investigators determined the physical location of the computer, which was Sippola’s home address and obtained a search warrant. Officers seized a computer containing file-sharing software and approximately 250 images of child porn.
Sippola admitted he had been downloading child pornography for approximately four years. He also admitted that he had sexually exploited an 11-year old girl. The admission of exploitation could increase his sentence by several years.
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The first link is about cracking WEP security, which isn’t the same as cracking through a MAC access list.
The second link, to Wiki, talks about MAC spoofing, by using packet listening. This means that someone already has to have a high degree of technical skills to get this to work. The average person looking to hijack a wireless network is simply going to click on the most readily available unsecured network. Failing that, they may try and crack one of the network’s password using one an exploit, but I don’t think that is likely. The number of people capable of pulling out a MAC spoof, followed by cracking your network is so limited its practically an after thought. Most users barely understand how to navigate through Windows, and have no understanding of IP addresses, MAC addresses, or furthermore, Linux, which is where the bulk of cracking tools are.
I do appreciate the info regarding that particular vunerability, but I still consider it to be the safest way to lock down your wireless network.
Three simple steps:
1) Don’t broadcast your Wireless Name
2) Use a secure password
3) MAC address restriction
Those three things will keep almost everyone out of your network.
As far as the child porn virus, yes, I’ve heard of that. I saw the article too. I still don’t think that is going to happen to many people, and good malware programs will remove those infections.
Government instruction on cracking a wireless http://www.governmentsecurity.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=15149
Wikipedia instructions to crack a wireless
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_security
Google results on how to crack a wireless…10+ pages
http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+address+security+crack&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
CBS news.. framed for child porn by PC virus
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/08/ap/tech/main5576948.shtml
all simple Google searches
What hole in the security protocol?
Your MAC address is a unique identifier assigned to your network compatible device. If you setup an access list of MAC addresses, you would have to know which addresses are on that list in order to spoof one and gain access.
Further more, most “hackers” are just using free tools available on line to crack security. If they couldn’t gain easy access they are likely to move on.
As far as trojan’s placing child porn on your PC, I have seen exactly one article detailing that. I think it would take some ignorance on behalf of the user to not notice some sort of problem. I think that specific trojan will be found by any common malware program at this point.
The newest trojans allow kiddie porn to be PUT on your computer without your knowledge that they access using a file sharing program in the trojan. The owner never knows he has the files on his computer and the pervert has a clean computer and access to yours.
Also, drive by ISP hijacking is rampant and MAC address security can be broken in less than 10 sec due to the “hole” recently found in the security protocol.
Not that I have sympathy for a child molester, but it is stupid to admit to crimes that there is no evidence to support you for.
The whole legal process involved is a little questionable to me as well.
Most people are going to have a router performing NAT, so what the police found here is a WAN IP address. They must have gotten the search warrant and then gone to the ISP to find out which device had that IP lease at that time(unless he was a static address, which is unlikely given his obvious technical deficiencies). So at that point they show up at this address and are able to search through his computer? How many people “borrow” free Wireless access from their neighbors?
Take note people, the police are apparently monitoring internet access. If you have a wireless network, the safest thing you can do is restrict your Internet Access by MAC address. Depending on your router, you could also restrict times. So if you don’t want your child on the internet between 11pm and 7 am, no problem.
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