Original Photo (c) from sensepost, butchered by cgisecurity
Watt (also known as Unix Terrorist and JimJones) pictured far right during a Defcon talk (video available).
“Watt, a 7-foot-tall software engineer who was working for Morgan
Stanley at the time the hacks occurred, pleaded guilty in December to
creating a sniffing program dubbed “blabla” that Gonzalez and others
allegedly used to steal millions of credit and debit card numbers from
TJX and other companies. He’s scheduled to be sentenced Monday, though
his lawyer, Michael Farkas, told Threat Level this will likely be
delayed.
“Stephen’s take on this is that he accepts responsibility for aiding
people that he knew would commit wrongdoing,” Farkas tells Threat
Level. “However, he is very disturbed by the government’s aggressive
attempt to make him into more than what he is.”
…
“Though it’s unacknowledged by the prosecution and defense, Watt was
once known in hacker circles as “Jim Jones” and “Unix Terrorist.” In
the late 1990s and early 2000s, that hacker was part of a band of
self-proclaimed black hats that opposed the publication of security
vulnerabilities and resisted the hacking scene’s shift from
recreational network intrusions to legitimate security research.
…
Under the rubric Project Mayhem,
the gang managed to hack into the accounts of a number of prominent
“white hat” hackers and publish their private files and e-mails. At the
2002 DefCon hacker conference, Watt took the stage with two friends to
personally share some of the hacked e-mails.
In a profile in Phrack Magazine in 2007, “Unix Terrorist” reflected on the old days.”
We wish you luck.
