Congressional aide (Republican-MT) admits trying to hire hackers -- to boost his college GPA

[Renew Deal]

The communications director for Montana's lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire -- with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA -- during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer.

Todd Shriber, 28-year-old press aide to U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., e-mailed the security Web site attrition.org on Aug. 9, writing: "I need to urgently make contact with a hacker that would be interested in doing a one-time job for me. The pay would be good. I'm not sure what exactly the job would entail with respect to computer jargon, but I can go into rough detail upon making contact with a candidate."

After initially denying knowledge of the exchange, Shriber told me this afternoon in the final of our three phone conversations: "I did something that's greatly out of character for me and it's a mistake that I regret."

Two members of attrition.org, "Lyger" and "Jericho" (a.k.a. "security curmudgeon") corresponded with Shriber and fooled him into believing that they would carry out his wishes, with Jericho warning him at one point: "You are soliciting me to break the law and hack into a computer across state lines. That is a federal offense and multiple felonies."
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[SpiralHawk]

1. Typical republicon family values

And no doubt he is only too happy to lecture the rest of the world about how superior republicon family values are.

Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha

republicons = Pharisees

[UpInArms]

2. Texas Christian University, from which he graduated in 2000.

[LiberalFighter]

6. So he wasn't able to bribe someone directly at TCU

[KansDem]

3. HAHAHA!!! I'll have to member this line...

"I did something that's greatly out of character for me and it's a mistake that I regret."

...the next time I'm pull over for a traffic violation.

But, really...what do these people know of "character?"

[acmavm]

4. Greatly out of character? I doubt it.

[Judi Lynn]

7. If he were ACTUALLY a better person, he'd be a DEMOCRAT, after all!

He probably meant to say, "This is about par for a Republican."

[Oak2004]

5. You think Montana is going to be all gung ho on republicans anymore?

I don't :)