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L0pht And The FBI
A reader recently submitted a story from The Reg concerning some questioning of l0pht ? , @stake ? , and the general business of security. The article itself is harsh, but raises some interesting points.
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And not doing a very good job at it...
In Murphy We Turst
I make a hell of a lot of money off viruses. Stupid users are my bread and butter. Virus wipes out their system, I bring it back.
Norton's makes a killing on viruses. It would not suprise me to find out that they write them too... or hire people that have written them.
As long as Microsoft can't make a secure system and corporations keep buying into their line of FUD and crap products, they create thousands of jobs that are nothing but leaches on the system.
The beauty of linux is you only have to pay your administrators to make your systems better, and not hire extras just to do disaster recovery.
One full time admin for every 50 windows machines just because of security holes and viruses compared to 1 admin for every 150 Mac/Linux/FreeBSD boxes.
Do the math: Windows initial price is higher, and upkeep is higher even if you have to pay twice as much to hire a good unix admin than you have to pay for a dime a dozen MCSE
Execs must get some great kickbacks from Microsoft.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Everyone here knows how the Reimann Zeta function relates to hacking.... Except me.. Care to explain-- or were you just flaunting your "knoweldge" of math to make others feel stupid?
Unfortunately, everything in that article pretty much speaks for itself after you get past the first few pages of drivel and leetspeak. These guys have spoken before Congress. These guys have met with Presidents. And these guys are more or less indirectly responsible for the draconian BS laws Congress passes. It rings true.
Yes, they're fakes. But they're fakes with a good PR people, and they're good at scaring the shit out of those in power. Has anyone seen the kind of things they claim to be able to do? It's ridiculous.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
The hypocracy. You get these people that say "ya, screw the government, information was meant to be free" and so on BUT then are willing to be governmantal lapdogs when it acts to line their pocketbooks. That's the aspect I mind of some of these "hacker" companies. They like to play pretend that they are in it for idealistic reasons, but are prefectly willing to throw ideals out the window if it will serve to make them more money.
I think "sell-out" is an excellent term with l0pht. I remember when l0pht crack was free.....a free GUI password cracker...It was tremendous to me. But then they sold-out, and the next version of their software wasnt free, it had all sorts of little catches unless you wanted to shell out the 200 bucks to get the real thing. So I went looking for the previous version of their software, and it turns out they deleted the GUI version from their archives, so that people couldnt download that for free and take away from their buisness.
It was at that moment that I knew L0pht had sold out. As punishment, I suggest officially taking the leetness out of their name: Loft.