Bag of Beans

An aide for a Montana congressman was fired for trying to solicit hackers from attrition.org to boost his college GPA. The hackers merely led him on through a series of hilarious emails, including some asking him to take pictures of squirrels.

From: Todd Shriber (nascar24_08530@yahoo.com)
To: lyger@attrition.org
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:58:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Question for you or other Attrition members

Lyger - I came across Attrition.org for the first
time. I enjoyed the site though I am not an expert
with computers. That brings me to my next point: 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. Thanks for your help.

• Link (via Boing Boing)
• The entire email exchange is posted here on attrition.org.

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