Complete Idiot

via reddit ... Todd Shriber is a complete idiot, according to posts on reddit.com. The graduate of Texas Christian University was apparently not too happy with his GPA, so he attempted to hire a hacker to hack his former university and change his GPA. Only problem is, he went to the wrong guys. They led him down one hell of a crazy path, in which they asked him to take photos of pigeons to confirm his identity. (He took the photos.) The deal broke off before Shriber's GPA could be hacked, as the hackers just had too much. The story however, doesn't end there. Turns out that Shriber was the communications director for Republican Congressman, Denny Rehberg. When news broke of Shriber's attempts to change his academic past, Rehberg fired him.

Complete idiot or just an honest guy, a little desperate, who went way over his head? Well, Shriber was warned by one of the hackers he was corresponding with via email that what he was soliciting for was a federal crime, but that didn't stop him. Further, if Shriber had bothered to check, he would have found out that attrition.org, the site he was using to find hackers, is a computer security information site -- hardly a haven for malcontents.

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