Police say they have arrested the evil hacker who tricked them into forcing 4 innocents to confess to planning massacres, after he was caught on camera delivering a taunting digital message to police by cat – and Japan’s media has wasted no time in painting him as the archetypal creepy otaku.
The 30-year-old IT worker was arrested in central Tokyo on charges of interfering with official business, made in relation to threats of indiscriminate knife murder made against Comiket 82 through the PC of one of his virus-infected victims.
The arrest looked to be suspiciously well attended by news cameras, with media reports gleefully dwelling on his plump, bespectacled appearance, otaku habits and love of cats.
Police are sure he is the hacker who used a virus to post online death threats by remote controlling the PCs of four innocents, who police then arrested and coerced into confessing, thinking an IP address to be incontrovertible evidence of guilt.
Their innocence was only revealed when the hacker tauntingly contacted police and media with details of what he had done, humiliating police and courts utterly and causing yet another revelation into how Japanese police apparently secure many of their convictions.
One of the victims came forward as an anime director, and a student who lost his university place as a result of his forced confession and subsequent conviction elicited particular sympathy online. All their convictions were rapidly overturned.
He next famously had police searching the cat population of Kanagawa prefecture’s Enoshima Island, after he attached an SD card containing the “iesys.exe” virus he used to the collar of one of the cats living there.
Unsurprisingly considering their record on the case, police ended up using a low-tech method to get him – they trawled security camera footage from the area the messenger cat was found, and eventually managed to identify a “suspicious” man and motorcycle from them, and followed up their investigations from there.
More detailed hacking-related charges seem likely once police force him to confess.
For now, he categorically denies the accusations, saying “there is no truth to them whatsoever” – which may yet further humiliate police should they find nothing on the 3 PCs seized from his residence, as so far it would seem police only have circumstantial evidence that he may have attached an SD card to a cat.
Police do say he has a 2005 conviction for making similar online threats, and served jail time for the offence.
His motive was apparently a grudge against police, and a desire to avenge himself by humiliating them – the feline communique included a vengeful letter in which he complained of “having my life turned upside by police dragging me into an investigation despite my innocence.”
Curiously the online hoi polloi are still not entirely convinced police have their man:
“Another mistaken arrest!”
“Ah, he certainly looks like the classic otaku – fat, glasses, awful clothes.”
“He looks the archetypal creepy otaku.”
“Just like you guys in fact.”
“He is us and we are him.”
“No way do they have enough evidence.”
“Nasty looking scapegoat they’ve trotted out there!”
“I feel they got the right man this time. He went a bit too far with the cat stunt.”
“All sorts of people go to Enoshima to pet the cats there around that time. More so cat lovers.”
“Enoshima is like a big outdoor neko cafe. Just because he went there and a camera spotted him petting a cat doesn’t really add up to good evidence.”
“Enoshima is cat heaven. Suddenly I want to go there.”
“If it is another guy whose PC was infected I shall laugh.”
“Looks like the right guy. Maybe they’ll lighten his sentence if he explains how he pulled it off?”
“1982 was a good year for creepy criminals – the Kobe child killer, the Tochigi teacher killer, the Akihabara stabber, and now this.”
“I was hoping for a cool guy like in a Hollywood movie for once.”
“Our cops are seriously useless. If he didn’t lead them to him by the cat stunt they never would have got him.”
“If he’d just stuck to PCs he’s still be out there. It’s not like they’d be able to manage to crack Tor or something.”
“Why do so many otaku love cats anyway?”
“Cat lovers are only a step away from creepy otaku.”
“What I can’t stand about this case is that he involved an innocent cat in all this!”
“When did just otaku start loving cats? Doesn’t everyone love cats?”
“The media reports dwelling on his otaku looks are sheer prejudice and discrimination, aren’t they? They’d never say anything about him if he were Korean or something.”
“Honestly it sounds like he is being presumed guilty just because of his looks.”
“Is it a coincidence that just yesterday one of their ‘cybercrimes’ investigators was arrested for stealing a bicycle?”
“He sure humiliated the cops. I hope his lawyer is vigilant so they don’t make sure he ‘commits suicide’ whilst in custody.”
“If he really is the culprit, there’s probably nothing on his drives and he’ll get off if he keeps protesting his innocence. Though I expect the police will resort to ‘all means’ to make sure this doesn’t happen.”
“I can’t help but think they just looked at the camera footage and picked up someone who visited Enoshima to see the cats and had a prior conviction…”
Fat Otaku in jail means no anime in years and the best way to diet.
Nobody stops warui otoko ^_^
“He is us and we are him.”
Best comment ever.
If you’re going to commit a crime, never choose a pussy for a partner.
Whoever is the true culprit, that latest arrested guy or otherwise, is my hero.
THE CAT HAS GEASS~!
“If he’d just stuck to PCs he’s still be out there.”
Yes, going outside was his mistake.
It’s the cat!!!
The cat did it!!!
you took mai picture :(((
its your fault!
A Otaku with a Job?
And he managed to get one in spite of having a criminal record too. Curiouser and curiouser…
I love cat’s guess I’m going to like otaku now.
Meanwhile, infamous cat-lover/nomer Shoko-tan prepares for exile…
Shotto matte! It means the cat was hacked? WOW!
He has one of his cats trained to infiltrate the prison with tools like that one in South America. He’ll be free in no time.
Did no one ever suspect the cat? He’s the clear mastermind here.
Sakaki said “No!” and the police believed her.
KILL HIM, KILL HIM DEAD!
LET THE STREETS RUN RED WITH HIS BLOOD!
MAKE HIM AN EXAMPLE TO OTAKU TERRORISTS EVERYWHERE!
Well this guy had :
-The opportunity
-The means
-The motif
So I do think it could be him, specially with that attitude and the records.
But the guy seems like a oool guy.
He kept taunting the police, he could have gotten away but in the end saved the guys he almost fucked, so sure he gave them an awful time but only enough to show how shitty the police is.
The police there are clearly a fucking mess that fail at catching criminals and are only god at forcing innocents to confess or taking bribes so really, anything that brings public attention to how shitty they are can only help the process of fixing the issue.
Can they convict him now?
Not if they can’t find proof, real proof, and if he doesn’t confess.
So let’s assume he locked all the stuff in his PC o there’s nothing incriminating him and he has the balls to keep shut now.
There’d be nothing they could do now.
Had to do a double take to make sure this wasn’t about some otaku that loved billionaires and corporate fat cats.
Do the Japanese really follow along when their media tries to shame innocent people like this as a distraction from their own scandals?
In the west, this man would be a hero for exposing police corruption. A western hacker would also likely have kept some evidence of the coercion to use in a bargain with the national authorities to get away clean from any hacking charges. It goes without saying that the national authorities would be ruthlessly prosecuting the police involved.
I guess they think that it’s too difficult to fix their societal problems, or that such things don’t affect their individual lives. But watch out, someday it could be you who gets coerced into a confession!
Japanese are the biggest gremlin society. They follow whatever. They are obsessed with appearances and conformism.
As one who despises the criminal justice “system” – especially the total JOKE that is the Japanese system – I am reveling in the schadenfreude here.
This kid knows exactly what he’s doing and he has my blessing.
[quote]This kid knows exactly what he’s doing and he has my blessing.[/quote]
Doing jailtime? Somehow, I don’t think he planned it this way.
Wait, since when has the typical Otaku loved fat cats?
The JPs arresting the wrong guys shows your average competence of Japanese people when it comes to things IT. They’re about 10 years behind the rest of the modern world in the IT department
He was planning massacres some how I severely doubt it.
Hacker types rarely if ever commit acts of physical mass violence, it’s simply not their style.
“When did just otaku start loving cats? Doesn’t everyone love cats?”
Thats what I thought.
My wife is allergic to them. We have a chihuahua.LOL
Only Sakaki truly loves cats. Everyone one else just pretends to.
Not everyone actually.
I bet the IP address from the fat cat message. I bet the actual person is ….. Zombie Kim Jong Il!
Or Kim Jong Un as it turns out he has other hobbies then just looking at things.
Cat backtracking – new weapon against crime.
Hurray for staged incidents?
Somehow i doubt that news like that is really going to make those people feel any good about themselves.
Either this or a “dirty foreginer”.
fuck the police, searching mah car, thinking every otaku is carryin’ the product
While they’re at it, why don’t they arrest the cops who forced a false confession out of the original suspects? I’m starting to think that many cops don’t understand the meaning of the word ‘Justice’.
Police can’t even do their jobs. What is it they are doing that makes it necessary to keep them around?
They provide a veneer of safety & security and act as a buffer/first-point-of-contact between the citizenry & the criminal justice system.
Because the police is the only thing stopping whoever has a bigger gun than you from stealing all your property and butt-fucking you at their leisure.
Inefficient law enforcement is preferable to Mad Max economics.
I guess there has to be competition to the yakuza when it comes to taking bribes..
pirateking: sankaku’s resident bitch boy 🙂
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Yes I do 🙂
do you know his real life name?
The cat ratted on him in exchange for a lighter sentence.
fuck the police!
Only if it’s a loli officer
He is guilty.
He knows how to play this game,eventually without evidence police can do anything.
you don’t know how Japanese police works do you? they will keep you in jail for 30 days on suspicion, when your time is about to run out, they will slightly change the charge, thus making it a new charge by their law, and keep you for another 30 days. This will continue until you confess. Look it up.
Yep so corrupt they make the LAPD look like a shining example of honesty.
the truth is… those guys are never caught, except if they commit some stupid mistakes.
It takes Microsoft millions of dollars and months of investigation to bring down some bot-net and their authors.
A random skript kiddie downloading a botkit and uploading infected binaries on p2p hardly is on the same level as the organized criminals running botnets numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
Microsoft couldn’t give a rat’s ass about such small timers. This doesn’t effect their bottom line.
Lol its not everyday when the police get trolled. Major props to the hacker.
From what I heard the Japanese national police are an organization that deserves to be trolled as they’re so corrupt they make the LADP look good.
Trolled? Who’s the one behind bars, stupid? Assface? Yeah… You.. the Guy who raped his own kittens. Fuckface.
He’s just jelly because he’s too pussy to do something like that to the police himself even though he wants to >.>
you simply jealous
Watch out, we got a badass over here.
I SMELL BACON, Want me to bring the donuts?
Donut bacon burgers are the best, use cake donuts though, the glazed ones mess up the burger.
what a coincidence… i just ate a hamburger with bacon and a donut.
Woah the NPA’s cyber squad patrols even the likes of Sankaku?
ooooh touchy 😛
What the hell…?
Getting arrested for taunting the police with a cat.
Thug life.
*In Jail surrounded by murderers and drug dealers*
One asks him, what are you in for?
He replies.. Taunting the police with a cat.
Then they make him a Yakuza leader.
The cat.
More gangsta than seventeen dollars.
He didn’t choose thug life, thug life chose him
Little do they know, the mastermind behind this incident…is the cat. This cat-otaku is just another of its slaves.
All according to keikaku-nya~~~
To the cat, the human was just another pawn on his chess board- I mean, on his cheezburger
Now [i]they[/i] have to kill you.
and then the police receive another message that they got the wrong person.
Cat: nyaaaaaaaa :Glowing Eyes: “All According to Keikaku~nya~” >.>
Fake arrest again…
kya! *runs away*
Catssassin Engage!
LOL
HE EVEN HAS CAT EYEBROWS
NEKO~~
NYA~~
triti
At least he isn’t like his American counterpart. Chocolate Rambo doesn’t do computers.
but he does rock a mac10
We already knew that.
he looks LOVELY. all round and cuddly ! I would happily succumb to his chubby charms. And yes, I AM a boy !
I never did understand how the Japanese police manage to get so many confessions, even false ones. It’s not like they’re actually beating you with a rubber hose. Are the Japanese people so weak-willed and conformist that the police can really force you to confess even if you’re innocent just by talking to you sternly and psych-out tricks? At least wait until they start pistol-whipping you or shoving a broom handle up your @$$.
The only thing the Japanese can realistically do to improve their justice system is to make confessions inadmissible in court.
People can whine forever that the real problem is that the police are incompetent or don’t have the proper mentality required for the job, but as long as the confession as a case closer still exists they will never have any incentive to improve.
Get rid of the ability for them to hold you for 30+ days without a trial and access to a lawyer things should change.
Japanese police are allowed to keep you in interrogation for days without access to a lawyer, and get their confessions by depriving people of sleep and keeping them close to dehydration.
sleep and water deprivation is known as torture in most of the world, oh japan, learning from the USA right?
AND YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS WHEN YOU SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS OF YOUR NICE POLICE OFFICER WO LIVE’S NEXT DOOR WITH HIS NICE AND SUGERCOATED FAMILY.
people using that kind of lie to coat their doings are usually the ones someone needs to be cautious of.
Enhanced interrogation is not torture. Sure, we might use a screwdriver or two, or a car battery, but I assure you it’s not torture. Anyone that says otherwise hates America/Japan respectively and are probably terrorists/criminals themselves.
That’s how amauters do it. Thing is even if you get confession this way, you can wipe your ass with it. No court will accept it.
And if you seek information it’s almost as worthless, since he may simply lie to get over it.
A lot more effective way is to only INTERRUPT his sleep every hour or two.
It’s very simple way, often used to prevent soldiers from lying in psychological tests, during SF recruitement process. It’s not torture, because overall he gets enough hours of sleep. There’s no risk for physical health his lawyer can use. Also chance for getting a lie is considerably smaller, because your mind is fully working – you just don’t think what you’re doing/saying, just doing so automatically, and even if you muster up enough concentration to lie, you won’t remember it and next time you’ll lie differently.
I would never confess, it doesn’t get smaller sentence in my country.
You would, under the right “interrogation techniques”. Only the most extreme conditioning would allow a human to resist even mediocre torture, and such conditioning takes massive toll on one’s mental health. In addition to the torture.
Lol police getting trolled.
They should arrest him anyway for being a fat smelly otaku
If personal flaws were a valid justification for incarcerations, then spiteful narrow-minded cowards would have been on the top of the list. How nice for you.
Do we have an innocent victim or a criminal with a Yagami Raito complex?