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Ohio Cracker Confesses to Attacks For Hire
Ritalin16 writes "An Ohio computer hacker recently pled guilty to carrying out crippling denial-of-service attacks on a shady internet hosting company's competitors. From the article: 'In a deal with prosecutors, Richard "Krashed" Roby, 20, pleaded guilty in federal court in Toledo last month to intentionally damaging a protected computer, after launching a 2003 attack on an online satellite TV retailer that caused at least $120,000 in losses.'" Another article indicating an openness on the international stage to cracking for cash.
I know Richard Roby, and it's good to see he's finally getting what he deserves. He's attacked my IRC Network a lot. He's also famous for bringing down mIRCx.com.
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you should see how they do things in the field business. I've done repair jobs on more dish installations than I could count which were monkeywrenched by a competing service when they did a prior add-on or upgrade and did everything they could to badmouth and undercut the prior guy and then farked up the work they did and blamed it on that poor sap.
The satellite biz is loaded with huckesters, scammers, and just plain bad people from suppliers to installers to servicers. This doesn't surprise me at all. When you have people selling RG-11 jumpers as "Monster Satellite Coax Cable", when you have $2.36 diplexors being sold as "Super High Tech Satellite Splitters" for $32.95+ and $3 roof tar sealant being sold as "Hi-Tech Satellite Waterproofing" for $20 a tube, you know the woods are thick with people whose ethics are not just questionable, but gone entirely.
The things I've seen in satellite work... They make cable companies look like emissaries of Heaven and the phone company like Knights of the Round Table.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
Hackers, crackers, and even the lowly DOSers no longer have to pretend that they are malevolent killers, but now can pretend that they are hitmen. There's a distinction there that lends itself well to delusional self-image and far too much RPGing. (Lawful evil folks often have more interesting campaigns than chaotic evil.)
I have little to say, but even less to lose by saying it.
Why are unsubstantiated claims rated "Interesting"?
He probably did you what say, but without proof these claims are nothing more than the ravings of a gossiper.
Where is the beef, sir?
Practices of DDos'ing servers is upsetting. It disrupts the generally shared used of the Net among the community of users. Equally upsetting (in this case), is the fact you can practically put a competing small business out of business by participating in this type of conduct.
... (while other servers would not). Is there anything that is being implemented to eliminate DDOS attacks altogether?
As a somewhat techie, I know that packets can be dropped from their "origin" but someone surely incurs a cost (either in implementing this feature) or having to deal with the packets anyways e.g. bandwidth costs
My dad said there was nothing he could really do, since the guy was his boss, except inform customers to pretend to know what they're doing so that they don't get taken advantage of. Come to think of it, this also happens at places like Best Buy when it comes to computers.
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Rather than innovate, I think we'll see more companies resorting to attacks of competitors' information systems. Innovation costs real money. You have to hire really smart people and they're not as inexpensive as the dullards who willingly participate in these schemes.
Of course, it's a matter of time before terrorists and/or other countries (China and North Korea being two that come to mind) start these kinds of attacks on their enemies' or perceived enemies infrastructure.
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
The cracking is implied. DDoS nodes don't grow on trees. Well, not literally at least.
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All complicit parties belong in jail. The person who hired the hit and the person who carried it out.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
Is a troll who makes a valid point really a troll?
If I had mod points today, I'd probably mod the parent up, as it is at least a good point for discussion to start.
ISPs IMHO should actively monitor their customers, at least to the point of looking for zombie machines, and shutting them down automatically.
It would be a public service.
I don't know how it works in America, but under UK law if the defendant pleads guilty, then the Judge may be likely to cut the custodial sentence by up to a third, although this may also be done if this is the defendant's first offence. Added to the fact that you may serve half of your sentance under curfew at home, if the judicial system is anything like that in the US, then he'll be out in no time.
Some think the Internet is a bad thing. I just think that AOL is a bad thing.
If Windows wasn't so difficult for Joe Sixpack to lock down...
To be fair, Microsoft has made huge headway in regards to security with XP SP2. It isn't perfect, but a slipstreamed install of SP2 is a world more secure than a copy of Windows Me. Now that it's an actual focus (after well deserved criticism), Microsoft really seems to have made it a priority.
In any case, how many Slashdotters, who we know largely run Windows, are running Firefox with the IDN hole waiting to be exploited? Uh oh, I brought up a fault in Firefox, so I'm going to be moderated a troll by one of my karma-stalkers (even though I run and prefer Firefox).
I think the plumbing industry is probably much the same. Moving a dishwasher this weekend, I snapped an improperly soldered joint the previous home owners had done themselves. I call in a plumber. He says he can't resolder the joint and he would have to charge me $125 to open the wall and see what is going on.
He heads out to his truck and in the 5 minutes he is out there, I grab my rotozip and open the wall (Wow, 5 minutes of work just saved me $125). He looks at it and comes up with some other stuff that is problematic (this stuff was genuinely problematic). Now he says he would have re-do the entire last 3 feet of pipeline up to the outlet, but this time he's not going to charge me to open the wall (as I've already shown that I can do it myself). So he writes me up an invoice for $650 to cut the old pipe off and replace it after the wall is opened up.
Included in the quote is a $50 3-way outlet. I already know that Home Depot sells those for $8.
So I did it myself. And as it turns out, I didn't need to open up any more wall than I already had. I spent $50 on parts to learn how to sweat copper pipes together. Another $75 on a MAPP torch, solder, flux, wire pipe cleaner, pipe cutting tool, etc.. About 2 hours with a book reading up on how to sweat the fittings. 4 hours practicing soldering with copper. Voila! Problem solved!
Now had the plumber charged $200 instead, I would have just paid him to do it and not learned how to fix the pipes myself.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
Let's say you drive me to the bank. I go in and decide to rob the place. You have no knowledge of the robbery. But, because you drove me there, you become an accomplice. We both go to jail for bank robbery.
What we need to do is start filing lawsuits agianst every owner of every computer that is involved in botnet attacks.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
Go ahead, enlighten us as to what is going to happen when 100 million people switch from 'Windoze'.
The same thing that's happened to the 5 million or so Mac users and the 5 million or so Linux users: Absolutely nothing bad. The system itself has reasonable defaults and give the user a clue. The system itself also has a way of getting that cool software, if it's not already loaded, without having to download it from some random spyware shop. Root passwords should not have to be entered often, so this should come as a shock to the user of a good distro. These systems are already out there and they already don't have Windoze type problems. The 12 minute windoze half life does not require user intervention. Anything is better than that.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.