Suspected hacker pwns Councilman John Simmonds in the face.

To make this story as short as possible, I’m going to sum it up. John Patten from creative-pages.com, was accused of “hacking” Venice Counsilman’s (John Simmonds), email account. Simmonds tried to sue John Patten. John Patten calls John Simmonds on it in court, and Simmonds gets pwned in the face hardcore. Venice Florida’s City Manager resigned shortly after. Simmonds doesn’t want his computer to be analzed, but instead he gets pwned in the face, over and over again.

I have new clue what political party either of these people are associated with, but the story is very interesting. All of Simmonds emails regaurding any city matters is a matter of public record. If he was deleting emails on his work computer, he was breaking the law. Simmonds claims Patten worked on his computer and could have installed “spyware”, but that’s highly unlikely as most spyware is picked up by anti-virus software. Besides, his computer should have been fixed by the official IT people for the city.

Simmonds emails were most likely picked up by the City’s network administrator, or someone with access to the network and email accounts.

So let me sum this up by saying, don’t accuse someone of hacking unless you have some hardcore evidence. It’s pretty easy to disprove “hacking” these days as there is always the case of “spyware” and “well maybe someone hacked my computer to hack yours”. Simmonds appears to be a goon and Patten called him out. Nice work on the face pwnage Mr Patten. :-)