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Point and Click Cracking
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com is running a story about a number of botnets and keylogger operations being controlled by Web-sites with point-and-click type front-end software interfaces. The sites mentioned in the story look like fairly slick PHP pages designed to sort through password data from keylog victims and update infected computers with new code or instructions. From the story: 'The hacking software also features automated tools that allow the fraudsters to make minute adjustments or sweeping changes to their networks of hacked PCs. With the click of a mouse or a drag on a pull-down menu, users can add or delete files on infected computers.'"
Here's what I hate about news. It's all about alluding to something powerful and blinding the users with innuendo.
Stop mincing your words and just say it. Stop telling people about "some website" where "evil hackers" can "point and click" to crack your passwords. Just fucking say Rainbow Crack.
It really fucking gets my goat when someone claims to have secret knowledge. What harm could have come from just saying Metasploit or Rainbow Crack? The evil doers already know. Give JoeUser actual knowledge and let him decide for himself.
Stop pretending that you know something and the public can't be trusted with it.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.