Blaine man indicted for hacking into neighbor’s wireless Internet system and posing as the neighbor to email child pornography and threats to the Vice President

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This case is about 45-years old man, Blaine ,who has been guilty for hacking into his neighbor's wireless Internet system and use it to make threat to kill the Vice President of the United States and also Email child pornography. This guy pleaded gulty for different offences including: one court for aggravated identity theft, making threats to president and successors to the presidency, one court for unauthorized access to a protected computer and another court for possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. 
Base on the information available Blaine in February 2009, hacked into his neighbor's wireless Internet connection and formed a multiple Yahoo.com email accounts in that person's name and in May 6,2009 he used one of those accounts to email the office of the Vice President of the United State and governor and US senator as well. In that Email he stated:

"This is a terrorist threat! Take this seriously. I hate the way you people are

spending money you don’t have.... I’m assigning myself to be judge jury and

executioner. Since you folks have spent what you don’t have it’s time to pay 

ultimate price. Time for new officials after you all are put to death by us"

Blaine used the emails accounts he created in the victim's name to send sexually-themed emails to three of the victim's co-workers too, in addition to that he attached an image containing child pornography. he also created Myspace page in the victim's name, on which he posted the same image of child pornography. 

Adolf faces a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment on the distribution of child pornography, ten years on the pornography possession and five years on both  the unauthorized access to a computer and and a threat to vice president also a  two-year minimum sentence on each count of aggravated identity. 

My comment

this is the case that involve many offence but one thing that is in common in all of the them, is using a computer as a tool to commit a crime against the person and government as well.

Technically speaking, it is kind of crime that is called Spoofing, that is faking the email sender's identity and tricking the target recipient into believing that the e-mail originated from the supposed mail sender.  

source:

Month, By. "Minnesota Man Indicted for Hacking, Threatening Vice President: The Criminal Report Daily : Investigation Discovery." Discovery Networks: Blogs. Web. 07 Nov. 2010. .