US Busts Military Network Hacker

yorgasor writes " KATU has an article announcing the case of a mysterious hacker who has broken into roughly 100 military networks has been solved. The hacker is a British citizen and authorities were considering extradition for the case. Although no networks containing classified information were compromised, they do consider the hacker to be a professional rather than recreational due to the large number of networks he hacked."

Comments

zerg

[Lord Omlette]

Huh? Something must have been left out of the blurb. If I wank 100 times a day to porn, does that mean I'm a professional wanker?

Re:zerg

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, if that's what you'd like to be referred to. Then again, after wanking 100 times in a 24 hour period and causing all that stress on your wang, I think it'd be more accurate to say you 'were' a professional wanker.

Re:zerg

[pyrote]

and you said it was the keyboard that gave you Carpal Tunnel.

Re:zerg

[Anonymous Coward]

That's not what's on his hands.

Re:zerg

[Anonymous Coward]

6. ???

7. Profit!

By George

[IEforLinux]

He must've been looking for the secret blueprints for the prevention of tooth decay...

Re:By George

[sql*kitten]

He must've been looking for the secret blueprints for the prevention of tooth decay...

Just be thankful that the geniuses at MIT invented the elasticated waist and made America safe for Truth, Justice and the Chicken Parm Sub.

Professional Hacker?

[ejunek]

Does that come with a 401k plan and a good dental plan? It still probably has a better retirement plan than Enron :P

Re:Professional Hacker?

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

Does that come with a 401k plan and a good dental plan? It still probably has a better retirement plan than Enron :P

Best 401K around, you invest all the 'half cents' that are left over from other transactions.

Re:100 penetrations later...

[Anonymous Coward]

That sounds dirty...

This fits here..

[RebelTycoon]

All your bases are belong to us...

Re:Kinda OT

[wadetemp]

Damn. You're right. I knew I shouldn't have given my ballot to that bearded guy carrying the 80s-era Soviet anti-tank missle launcher.

Re:Hacker

[Max the Merciless]

"He is probably a dirty, greasy, long haired linux hippie freak, who smells REALLY bad and hasn't taken a shower or left his parents basement in 5 years"

Don't you mean "GNU/Linux hippie freak"

Re:This is not 'hacking'

[njchick]

Maybe he was armed by an AK77?

Re:This is not 'hacking'

[Anonymous Coward]

Merriam-Webster says "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion". I'm surprised the US gov't hasn't forced all dictionaries to broaden the definition.

Re:This is not 'hacking'

[njchick]

So, a guy from Iran who breaks into just one military computer is a recreational terrorist, right?

Re:100 penetrations later...

[the_2nd_coming]

100 penitrations!!! wow...the millitary sure is a slut.

Re:100 Sites?

[scotch]

He must have been pretty damn good to evade capture and continue to crack 100 sites.

Actually, he cracked one site consisting of a 100 node beowolf cluster. Imagine ... his surprise when he got caught.

This post broght to you by the laws of physics.

If you do it a lot, you're a "professional"

[Jeremiah Blatz]

Hrm, "they do consider the hacker to be a professional rather than recreational due to the large number of networks he hacked."

Wow, I guess I'm a professional /. reader? This is so cool! I thought I was unemployed, but no, here I am, practicing my profession *right now!* Rawk!

Re:If you do it a lot, you're a "professional"

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, I guess I'm a professional /. reader? This is so cool! I thought I was unemployed, but no, here I am, practicing my profession *right now!* Rawk!

The bad news is that you only get paid with Karma.

The good news is that is may be more valueable than VA's stock.

Re:Kinda OT

[i_am_nitrogen]

the best way of securing a computer is to smash its network card into itty bitty pieces.

Alternatively you could just take it out of the computer.

What is a Professional Hacker?

[divide overflow]

Q: How can you tell a professional hacker has hacked into your network?

A: You can't. That's why he's a professional.

Re:British Hacker ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Over 100 before he was caught out. That's better than the entire England cricket team...

What frightens me most..

[varjag]

..about this story, is that noone of slashdotters objected this time to use of word 'hacker' as a label to 'cracker'.

Oh well...

Datastream Cowboy...

[Mafuba]

Neal?

hmmm...

Re:Why must we persist in...

[zbeba]

[paraphrased from someone's alt.2600 post. apologies to the poster; I can't remember who it was]

The term Hacker vs. Cracker is just an attempt by a bunch of pompous, self
righteous, tie wearing dorks to separate themselves from the unruly upstarts that
have surfaced in the past 10 years. Hacker isn't a name that solely belongs to
those people who somehow think that they're Marvin Minsky's grandchildren. It's a
name for whatever a person happens to call themselves. I'm sure there's a great
number of professional Axe Murderers who are dismayed that a bunch of computer
nerds are calling themselves 'hackers' too, but you don't see THEM acting all
indignant over it.

Re:Watch to see their target...

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

The article was vague. Maybe he made a mistake and gave the investigators something that identified him.

Probably used the oldest trick in the book on him. They added an address field to /etc/passwd so when he added his back door account he put his name and address down. I don't know about you, but that gets me every time.