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Hackers: Under The Hood

Posted by timothy on from the human-interest dept.

jyre writes "ZDNet Australia has a special report that profiles and interviews five hackers over the next five days. Day 1: Raven Alder's page is up now (inludes photos). Day 2 will be Attrion.org creator, Jericho. Day 3: Adrian Lamo. Day 4: Kevin Mitnick and Day 5: L0phtCrack creator, Mudge."

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  1. Ah, Attrion. by FlyingJesus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love attrion.org! It's the best way to start my day, opening the old browser and surfing on over to attrion! First on my list of things to do in the morning!

    Mods don't hurt me :)

    --
    Flying Jesus!
  2. Re:She looks halfway decent at least by nadda · · Score: 5, Funny

    dude, that's her first grade photo.

  3. L0pht crack by solid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mmmmm... L0pht password cracker. *urgh!* "Me use brute force!" *urgh!*

  4. Perfect Ad by Jade+E.+2 · · Score: 5, Funny
    That's got to be the most perfect ad-to-article match ever. The interview contains these paragraphs:
    "The root problem that the security industry has is ... unscrupulous people selling to an uninformed market. The managers buying security products don't understand security at all, and so they trust the vendors to tell them what is best," Alder argued. "And somehow, conveniently, what is best has a great overlap with whatever that particular vendor happens to be selling."

    ...

    "[Companies] have the latest and greatest firewall that nobody has ever bothered to configure, or a very expensive intrusion detection system (IDS) that nobody has the understanding to tune."

    And the ad on the page says "Today's threats require a lot more than a firewall. This is a lot more than a firewall. Symantec Gateway Security 5400 series" (Ad here.)

    That's about the most perfect example of what she's talking about anybody could have come up with...