http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/ Read it here. I guess some people have an unbelievably high amount of free time on their hands and lack gfs/friends/social life and all that. Still pretty funny anyways.
Yah, I guess he is the most famous celler dweller this world has seen. So credit where credit is due.
Not alot different to electoral voting machines in the "free world" really.. Anyway, hacking at that level could mean a LOT of power, potentially. Getting certain useful info, and fair amounts of money would be pretty much no problem at all to them. Just as well their sole motivations in life are hacking and jerking off reading Japanese comics.. Or *are* they...