Jason Mewhiney Timeline
of Events:
| March 5, 1997 | NASA main page defaced, "h4g1s" claim responsibility. Local mirror of the defacement can be viewed here. |
| April 1, 1998 | Jason Mewhiney arrested by Royal Canadian Mounted Police acting on a tip off from paid FBI informant Nick Potkay. Jason is charged with "illegally hacking into the United States government computer systems and in one case causing extensive damages." Jason's computer is confiscated. |
| April 1, 1999 | Jason is held over for trial on forty-seven counts of hacking related crimes involving NASA, Hughes STX (a NASA contractor), the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and others. |
| April 5, 1999 | NASA Inspector General Roberta L. Gross releases an official statement on the NASA defacement and Jason's case. Gross claims that the defacement caused a "denial of service to about 210,000 users" and that "repairing" the affected systems cost NASA "tens of thousands of dollars". |
| Jan. 17, 2000 | Jason is sentenced to six months in prison and fined $6,000. The Judge in the case compares Jason to a "safecracker" who steals from banks. This odd analogy exposes the Judge's basic misunderstanding of this case, as there is no evidence whatsoever that Jason profited in any way from his alleged crimes. Upon release, one of his bail conditions includes a ban upon the use of any type of computer equipment. |
| Feb. 4, 2000 | The freetrout.bow.org website is launched by BoW after witnessing the events of this fiasco unfold, and the resulting ignorant response of the media towards Jason's plight. |
| Feb. 25, 2000 |
Forbes Magazine prints an interview with attrition staff member Jay Dyson detailing the supposed harassment he has suffered at the hands of Jason Mewhiney. While the slanderous and unsubstantiated claims made in this article make for both bizarre and humourous reading, it is more interesting to note Mr. Dyson's reticence in contacting the authorities over the alleged terrible things that were done to him. When asked if he had gone to the police over these "serious" crimes, Mr. Dyson counters "they have no freaking clue." What we are left with is an interesting look into the mind of a mentally-disturbed and obsessed hacker wannabe. On an amusing side-note, with the publication of this article BoW becomes the first so-called "hacker group" to have a death-threat printed about one of its members in a major American magazine. |
Commentary on Jason's Case:
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