Minnesota hacker Barry Ardolf earned himself an 18-year term in a federal prison for the massive retaliation against his neighbors filing a police complaint against him.
His awesomely overblown response was triggered in 2008, when neighbors, Matt and Bethany Kostolnik's 4-year old son wandered over to their Ardoff's property shortly after moving in. Ardolf had reportedly picked the boy up carried him back to the couple and then kissed the child on the lips, prompting the police report.
Ardolf downloaded a Wi-Fi hacking program to tear into his neighbors WEP encryption, and created a fake Myspace page as well as several fake emails for Matt Kostolnik. He then posted child porn on the Myspace page and emailed the same child porn to co-workers at Kostolnik’s law office. And as the federal-crime-cherry-on-top, Ardolf sent death threats to Vice President Joe Biden and other politicians from Kostolnik’s Yahoo account, prompting a visit from the secret service who had traced the emails back to his IP address. His campaign against his neighbors lasted two years!
Kostolnik's law office hired a firm to poke around the Wi-Fi network and install a packet sniffer to figure it all out. Eventually Ardolf’s name and Comcast account were found, which gave the FBI a reason to obtain a search warrant for Ardolf’s house, where they found massive evidence supporting charges of of identity theft, making threats, possession of child pornography, and distribution of kiddie-porn.
There was evidence that Ardolf had staged a similar attack against another family for parking their cars in front of his house. For his vengeful ingenuity, he'll be slapped with lifetime-sex-offender registration and be supervised for 20 years, as well as have restrictions when working with computers. Next time, just leave a flaming bag of dogshit on the doorstep...
His awesomely overblown response was triggered in 2008, when neighbors, Matt and Bethany Kostolnik's 4-year old son wandered over to their Ardoff's property shortly after moving in. Ardolf had reportedly picked the boy up carried him back to the couple and then kissed the child on the lips, prompting the police report.
Ardolf downloaded a Wi-Fi hacking program to tear into his neighbors WEP encryption, and created a fake Myspace page as well as several fake emails for Matt Kostolnik. He then posted child porn on the Myspace page and emailed the same child porn to co-workers at Kostolnik’s law office. And as the federal-crime-cherry-on-top, Ardolf sent death threats to Vice President Joe Biden and other politicians from Kostolnik’s Yahoo account, prompting a visit from the secret service who had traced the emails back to his IP address. His campaign against his neighbors lasted two years!
Kostolnik's law office hired a firm to poke around the Wi-Fi network and install a packet sniffer to figure it all out. Eventually Ardolf’s name and Comcast account were found, which gave the FBI a reason to obtain a search warrant for Ardolf’s house, where they found massive evidence supporting charges of of identity theft, making threats, possession of child pornography, and distribution of kiddie-porn.
There was evidence that Ardolf had staged a similar attack against another family for parking their cars in front of his house. For his vengeful ingenuity, he'll be slapped with lifetime-sex-offender registration and be supervised for 20 years, as well as have restrictions when working with computers. Next time, just leave a flaming bag of dogshit on the doorstep...
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I read the sentencing memo. Reads like a first attempt in a creative writing course:
"Matt and Bethany Kostolnik moved into their dream home in August 2008. Located on a cul-de-sac in Blaine, the home provided room for their growing family; they had two children under five years old, and were expecting another child soon. On August 2, 2008, one day after moving into their new home, the dream became a nightmare." and so on.
I was reading comments from others elsewhere and a few were making light of the incident by stating "don't call the cops when someone returns your kid." I don't want to mitigate the hell they went through, but I'm still scratching my head by the mother's reaction. She didn't actually see the guy kiss her son; she heard it. Everywhere else I've read that he kissed the boy on the lips, but this isn't established. She then ran upstairs crying "We've moved next door to a paedophile!" If I had a visit from the police because of my neighbours who had just moved next door, I'd be freaking out. Just not to this extent.....
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