Hack Your Way to Hollywood

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63147,00.html

Am I the only one missing something regarding this situation? If I were to access private customer data for personal business solicitation purposes, I would be fired and most likely prosecuted.

Instead, this known con-artist receives a lucrative movie deal. ?!

[osprey4]

Hey, it worked for Jason Blair. Sounds like a copy-cat crime to me.

[miriam]

She's a pro at scaming people, she's been doing it seen her teens. And she will probably get away with it.

[no1_vern]

You forget you have no sex appeal for the powerful in Hollywood

Almost all the powerful are MEN(there are some women but I'd say that powerful Hollywood people are more than 95% Men).

[tony_j15]

hollywood seems to attract that sort of crap people. Whats really scary is the fact that all these celebraties have been using AOL accounts! As all wellversed geeks know, only n00b's use it. Doesn't say much for these charming hollywood stars.

[B71655]

You prob. have to have one of the celebs raise cain to bring any charges. AOL sure doesn't want to call attention to mis-use of private info.

[osprey4]

Originally posted by tony_j15
hollywood seems to attract that sort of crap people. Whats really scary is the fact that all these celebraties have been using AOL accounts! As all wellversed geeks know, only n00b's use it. Doesn't say much for these charming hollywood stars.

I think it tells us everything we need to know.

I love this, though.

"Although she's, at best, a scam artist, you have to grudgingly admire this young woman," said Mark Ebner, co-author of Hollywood, Interrupted, a book in which Robinson's exploits get a chapter. "In a town of liars, cheats and thieves, it's small wonder she's been welcomed."