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The Story of the tech.net.ru Crackers
tabdelgawad writes "The Washington Post is running a three-part story (Part 1,
Part 2, and Part 3) detailing the events of the arrest of the two Russian crackers, Vasiliy Gorshkov and Alexey Ivanov, from a couple of years ago (See also Previous Slashdot Story 1 and 2). The writeup is light on technical details, but includes fascinating information about the crackers' socioeconomic conditions and motivations, as well as the competence and effectiveness of the FBI in combatting cybercrime."
didn't all dot-coms targetted the large US companies to con them out of money?
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
I didn't use C, because contrary to popular belief, ASP and VB can go just as low level as C can
shareware versions of software that we needed, including sendmail, apache, and BIND.
GNU community has close ties to former communist leaders
x' in Linux was a tribute to the former Communist philosopher, Carl Marx, whose name also ends in 'x'
kernel panics caused by mod_perl
IIS servers running on Windows2000 had never experienced a worm attack. Microsoft has always provided us with patches in the unlikely event that an exploit was found.
After just 48 hours of operating Linux servers in our server pool, we had exhausted our budget for the entire year! It was costing us approximately 75% more to run Linux than Windows2000.
communist GNU license.
provided that gcc won't kernel panic the machine
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This story is about russian hackers, and that's the only one where there's no "in soviet russia" post ...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
...if the crackers taste any good or not.
sig.
Ever since I switched over to Linux, I've had nothing but problems. My girlfriend left me, my dog died, the pet rock ran away and people look at me strangely.
Damn you Linux!
He starts a business with the Best of Intentions.
Local crime bosses go after him for protection money. "Hey, nice server you got dere. Be a shame if sumtin' happened to it."
His employee suggests they raise the protection money by breaking in to American sites, steal CC #'s etc.. and offer to return the stolen data (?) and tell them how they did it. Raise protection money with protection money.
"Hey, the FBI can't get us here. We're in Russia, not Wisconsin."
FBI proves them wrong.
No, I don't feel sorry for them. They're criminals. Send them to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass Prison.
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper
I like this snippet:
Unbeknownst to Gorshkov and Ivanov, the agents had installed onto the "company's" computers a program that logged the young men's keystrokes as they were accessing the tech.net.ru systems in Russia. That allowed U.S. law enforcement to obtain the hackers' passwords.
0wned by FBI's keylogger, har har!
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
As a sort of funny illustration, look at the picture on this page, which shows the crackers' old dean, Lev Kazarinov, in his office. He has a Microsoft baner on the wall, and his monitor shows the blue disk checker screen you get when your Windows system crashes.
There are no trolls. There are no trees out here.
Dear Lord, shut up already! We know you'd like to be called "crackers" instead of hackers, just like you'd rather be called Trekkers instead of Trekkies. But wake up! IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN! This nickname was bestowed upon a group by the general public, you can't decide to change it "just because", it is a part of culture, and contrary to your own personal belief, YOU ARE NOT A JEDI KNIGHT! This isn't a light side vs. dark side thing, it's just a case of people who hack for fun wanting to pretend they are samuri or some shit.
The name of cracker has already been taken anyway, it refers to a white man.
Take mine,...please.
(don't mind the outstanding student loans)
grammar-lesson free since 1999. (rescinded - 2005)