Fred Durst Says Sex Video Was Stolen From His Computer

[Tyler Durden]

"I don't hate technology, I
don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those
hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially
security."

Holy shit...the guy's a hell of a lot smarter than most legislators. Sounds 
almost like a Cypherpunk...

-TD

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
>To: cryptography at metzdowd.com, cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net, 
>osint at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Fred Durst Says Sex Video Was Stolen From His Computer
>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:02:58 -0500
>
>Like most real hacks and cracks, it was an, um, inside job...
>
>Cheers,
>RAH
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>Fred Durst Says Sex Video Was Stolen From His Computer
>  02.25.2005 9:52 PM EST
>
>Contrary to rumors, nookie clip was not hacked from a Sidekick.
>
>Fred Durst
>  Photo: MTV News
>SANTA MONICA, California - Just days after Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick
>was hacked, spreading her topless photographs across the Internet, a sex
>tape featuring Fred Durst hit the Web along with reports that it was the
>work of the
>
>  Fred Durst on how the video was stolen
>  same hacker.
>
>  Though the explicit clip features the words "T-Mobile Terrorist" on it,
>the Limp Bizkit singer said the footage was definitely not stolen from his
>PDA.
>
>  "If you look on Paris' thing, I don't use T-Mobile," Durst said with a
>laugh on Friday (February 25), referring to the list of Hilton's phone
>numbers that also leaked and included his contact information (see "Paris
>Hilton Apologizes For Crank Calls, Fergie Wants Revenge"). "No, no, [my
>listing in her Sidekick] is just old, years old. Somebody that was
>repairing my computer was smart enough to go through anything he could [and
>found the movie]. What can I say? I'm not proud of it.
>
>  "Everyone, probably everyone in this building, has done something similar
>to what I did, and nobody cares about it," he added during a break from
>recording the next Limp Bizkit album in Interscope Records' studio. "But if
>you're high-profile, or on someone's radar ... then it matters. What
>happens to me happens to me, and I have to live with it and go on."
>
>  Durst said he's been contacted by at least one company seeking his
>cooperation in selling the video.
>
>  "When those things happen to people, there are companies that approach
>you, say, 'Hey, man, you wanna make some money off this? People are gonna
>see it anyway,' " Durst explained. "I said, 'Absolutely not, I don't wanna
>make any money of this. This is ridiculous.' So when you see [celebrity sex
>tapes] out there with big company names on them, you can know people gave
>them permission to release it."
>
>  David Hans Schmidt, a Phoenix-based publicist who once represented Tonya
>Harding and who has represented celebrities in the selling of nude photos
>in the past, tells a different story. He said the thieves contacted him in
>September and he's been negotiating with them and Durst's agents ever 
>since.
>
>  "I was close to turning something illegal into something legal and then
>these hackers reneged and went out and put the tape on World Wide Web along
>with my home telephone number," Schmidt said. "Now we're gonna get 'em.
>Government agencies are meeting with me this weekend."
>
>  Schmidt refused to elaborate about the deal because he worried it might
>hinder the investigation.
>
>  Durst said he hopes people learn a lesson from what happened to him and 
>Paris.
>
>  "If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around," he
>said. "Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. It's just helping us get better,
>causing awareness for homeland security. ... I don't hate technology, I
>don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those
>hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially
>security."
>
>  Limp Bizkit are nearly finished with their fifth studio album, which will
>mark the return of original guitarist Wes Borland (see "Wes Borland Back
>With Limp Bizkit").
>
>  - Corey Moss
>
>
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