Human-on-Technology and -Human Crime - When Hackers Attack

As if the term "hacker" wasn't already "charged with connotation," as Randy Abrams of NSS Labs recently put it, a recent report from Australia adds a new and more literal connotation.  According to the Melbourne Herald Sun, an individual in Tailem Bend, South Australia, Bryce Kingsley Quilley, pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful modification of computer data, threatening to cause harm, and threatening to damage property, after he hacked three times into an ISP's servers and, on the same day, "threatened to burn down the offices of the ISP and, while armed with an axe, threatened to cause harm to its owner."  The article does not specify whether the axe in question was the Axe of Frozen Death, the Axe of Earthly Sundering, or a mere mortal artifact from a local hardware store.  Sentencing submissions are due to the court in August.