Congressional aide attempts to hire "hacker" to raise his GPA

(It's hard to believe that there's people this numb at such high places...)

Congressional aide admits trying to hire hackers -- to boost his college GPA
By Paul McNamara

The communications director for Montana's lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire -- with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA -- during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer.

Todd Shriber, 28-year-old press aide to U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., e-mailed the security Web site attrition.org on Aug. 9, writing: "I need to urgently make contact with a hacker that would be interested in doing a one-time job for me. The pay would be good. I'm not sure what exactly the job would entail with respect to computer jargon, but I can go into rough detail upon making contact with a candidate." [...]

(Added later: a link to the e-mail exchange -- absolutely unbelievable!)