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BusinessWeek on Hacker Hunters

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-hacker-gatherers? dept.

prostoalex writes "You keep hearing about FBI, Secret Service or other law enforcement authorities involved in pursuing international cybercrime gangs, but who are those people and how does the cyberlaw enforcement work? Business Week talks about hacker hunters and people they're after. A large portion of the article is dedicated to describing the global scope of such activities with Russia, Eastern Europe and China leading the ranks for criminal hideouts."

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  1. Re:fp hehe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hehehe. YOU LAUGH LIKE A LITTLE GIRL!! hehehehehe

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  2. Re:The "H" word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Definitions change. A faggot used to mean firewood. What would happen today if you said, "I'm going into the woods to chop up some faggots with an axe and toss them into the bonfire."?

  3. Could we maybe... by queef_latina · · Score: -1, Troll
    ...get the fuck over it? I have a feeling that the ones who scream the loudest about this nonexistent hacker/cracker difference are the ones that don't do any useful hacking.

    What have you done that isn't in php or visual basic?

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    Oh, and to all of you linux users: Isn't it a form of rape, to force your operating system preferences on other people? Why can't you enjoy your little niche operating system without biting your nails over "blah blah viable desktop alternative" or "blah blah solution blah blah" or whatever it is you repulsive faggots are shitting out your mouths these days?

    Computers aren't supposed to be an end to themselves, and only disgusting pedophiles watch Star Trek.

    --
    Slashdotters: You are all a bunch of faggots.

    Do you hear me, you repulsive faggots? NO DIGG.

  4. you inseNsitive clod! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gopod man8ers

  5. The obvious... by tyldis · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Hacker Manifesto

    by
    +++The Mentor+++
    Written January 8, 1986

    Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...

    Damn kids. They're all alike.

    But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?

    I am a hacker, enter my world...

    Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...

    Damn underachiever. They're all alike.

    I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."

    Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.

    I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...

    Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.

    And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...

    Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...

    You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

    This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

    Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

    I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.