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Hack the Army, Brag About it, Get Raided
SunCrushr was one of many who submitted this. A security company called ForensicTec decided to explore the U.S. government's computer systems, with particular emphasis on the Army. They talked to the press and had their fifteen minutes of fame. And surprise surprise, they immediately got raided by the FBI. What did they expect?
-Hacking into the US Army's computers: 2 gazillion dollars
-Divulging their deeds to the press in a justifiably paranoid post 9/11 world: 30 zillion dollars
-Getting fucked in the ass by the FBI for being plain old stupid: Priceless...
For everything else, there's MasturbCard...
After reading about these guys' antics, I can only strengthen my belief that intelligence on this planet is a constant.
No, seriously, I just come here for the articles.
This looks like hierarchy to me.
Anyway, I say live and let live. There's just no reason for the government to put his nose in other peoples business.
What?
The government set up honeypots to observe and catch hackers fishing for benign data? Yes. And FTec found one? POSSIBLY. The FBI would have raided the company regardless in due time, because the company might have likely been in a MONITORED government honeypot.
Yes, even real users have easy to guess passwords. But if it was too easy, like the FTEC company states, it could have definitely been a honey pot they accessed.
Definition
honeypot n. 1. An Internet-attached server that acts as a decoy, luring in potential hackers in order to study their activities and monitor how they are able to break into a system. Honeypots are designed to mimic systems that an intruder would like to break into but limit the intruder from having access to an entire network. If a honeypot is successful, the intruder will have no idea that s/he is being tricked and monitored. Most honeypots are installed inside firewalls so that they can better be controlled, though it is possible to install them outside of firewalls. A firewall in a honeypot works in the opposite way that a normal firewall works: instead of restricting what comes into a system from the Internet, the honeypot firewall allows all traffic to come in from the Internet and restricts what the system sends back out.
By luring a hacker into a system, a honeypot serves several purposes: The administrator can watch the hacker exploit the vulnerabilities of the system, thereby learning where the system has weaknesses that need to be redesigned. The hacker can be caught and stopped while trying to obtain root access to the system. By studying the activities of hackers, designers can better create more secure systems that are potentially invulnerable to future hackers.)
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/honeypot.html
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I think the army/fbi/government should welcome people trying to crack their computers. They should give out prizees for people who find holes ala Knuth and errors.
Which would you rather have- "evil" albeit boastful white-hat crackers "on the loose" or gov/mil computers that are insanely easy for terrorists to get into ?
So- to everyone whining about "ohohohoh they did something illegal- they should pay...." SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU ARE WRONG!
heheheh Had to get it out of my system.
graspee
Well does the government have the right to know that I'm cheating on my wife? I don't think so.