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Harvard Student Charged For Sending Bomb Threat To Avoid Final
PAMELA ENGEL AND PETER JACOBS DEC. 17, 2013, 6:05 PM 2,665 1
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A 20-year-old Harvard student who was allegedly trying to dodge a final exam has been charged in Monday's bomb hoax that led to four buildings being evacuated and several final exams being canceled, CBS in Boston reports.
Eldo Kim allegedly emailed bogus bomb threats to the Harvard University Police Department and student newspaper the Harvard Crimson. He's due in court Wednesday.
He reportedly admitted to FBI investigators that he was the one who sent the emails. Kim tried to conceal his identity using one service that assigns people anonymous IP addresses and another that creates an anonymous and temporary email account, according to the federal complaint.
Kim was allegedly "motivated by a desire to avoid a final exam scheduled to be held on December 16," the complaint states.
Kim was scheduled to take a final in one of the buildings that was evacuated. He sent the emails at about 8:30 a.m. His final was scheduled for 9 a.m. From the document:
"KIM was scheduled to take a final exam in Emerson Hall, a building on the Harvard campus, at 9:00 a.m. on December 16, 2013. KIM stated that he was in Emerson Hall at 9:00 a.m. when the fire alarm sounded and the building was evacuated. According to KIM, upon hearing the alarm, he knew that his plan had worked."
Kim allegedly wrote that "shrapnel bombs" had been placed in four buildings around campus, saying: "guess correctly. be quick for they will go off soon."
Police didn't find explosive devices in any of the buildings.
The maximum penalty for Kim is five years in prison, three years of probation, and a $250,000 fine.
Harvard's website describes Kim as an undergraduate studying psychology. He was at one point a dancer for the Harvard Breakers and said that in his free time he "enjoys playing pool, trying new restaurants, watching terrible cult films, and playing with his Mini Schnauzer puppy."
LAW & ORDER More: Harvard Bomb Massachusetts
Harvard Student Charged For Sending Bomb Threat To Avoid Final
PAMELA ENGEL AND PETER JACOBS DEC. 17, 2013, 6:05 PM 2,665 1
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A 20-year-old Harvard student who was allegedly trying to dodge a final exam has been charged in Monday's bomb hoax that led to four buildings being evacuated and several final exams being canceled, CBS in Boston reports.
Eldo Kim allegedly emailed bogus bomb threats to the Harvard University Police Department and student newspaper the Harvard Crimson. He's due in court Wednesday.
He reportedly admitted to FBI investigators that he was the one who sent the emails. Kim tried to conceal his identity using one service that assigns people anonymous IP addresses and another that creates an anonymous and temporary email account, according to the federal complaint.
Kim was allegedly "motivated by a desire to avoid a final exam scheduled to be held on December 16," the complaint states.
Kim was scheduled to take a final in one of the buildings that was evacuated. He sent the emails at about 8:30 a.m. His final was scheduled for 9 a.m. From the document:
"KIM was scheduled to take a final exam in Emerson Hall, a building on the Harvard campus, at 9:00 a.m. on December 16, 2013. KIM stated that he was in Emerson Hall at 9:00 a.m. when the fire alarm sounded and the building was evacuated. According to KIM, upon hearing the alarm, he knew that his plan had worked."
Kim allegedly wrote that "shrapnel bombs" had been placed in four buildings around campus, saying: "guess correctly. be quick for they will go off soon."
Police didn't find explosive devices in any of the buildings.
The maximum penalty for Kim is five years in prison, three years of probation, and a $250,000 fine.
Harvard's website describes Kim as an undergraduate studying psychology. He was at one point a dancer for the Harvard Breakers and said that in his free time he "enjoys playing pool, trying new restaurants, watching terrible cult films, and playing with his Mini Schnauzer puppy."
"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."
Seeing how quickly he got caught, especially for a hoax, I knew he was an idiot and overlooked something that led to his capture. When pressed for time or lack of careful planning, all cyber criminals leave traces behind.
I have zero sympathy for likes of him. Now, in his free time, he will enjoy taking lukewarm showers with other naked criminals.
This is just armchair quarterbacking. But I think the key here is that he did this from school. Anonymity really only works against those on the 'outside'. Hiding my IP or using an anonymous email isn't gonna help me too much if I did all this from my target's network.
Its like walking into the bank's restroom, putting on a mask and coming out to rob the place.
Once upon a time, I read about a plan by Intel or one of the chipmakers, to provide a unique identifying number for each chip installed in every computer. In other words, if the computer was registered in your name and you sent anything using the computer, it would be possible to trace back your message or activity to that particular computer and, through the computer registration, to you. Did they ever implement that type of plan?
Once upon a time, I read about a plan by Intel or one of the chipmakers, to provide a unique identifying number for each chip installed in every computer. In other words, if the computer was registered in your name and you sent anything using the computer, it would be possible to trace back your message or activity to that particular computer and, through the computer registration, to you. Did they ever implement that type of plan?
I think you are referring to the Clipper Chip. There were other initiatives, but none really took hold. Privacy issues abound.
Related to the issue of tracking back to the purchaser of a computer, a man who released an MS Word virus many years ago got caught because a GUID in the Word document was traced to his license of the software, which was issued when he bought his computer... or something like that.
i was talking to the tech consultant who does our IT at our firm's holiday party last month and mentioned the Harvard case to him since he's done network security for big organizations like colleges & Fortune 500 corps. Basically, all private networks (such as Harvard's WiFi) monitor & log all browsing history for every user including time, destination IP, port & protocol. Given how small the number of Tor users (or even VPN users for that matter) there are on a university network at a given time the feds could whittle down their list of suspects to just a handful of ppl to interview. That kid copped to the fake bomb threat immediately.
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