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The Hacker Profiling Project
NewsForge writes "NewsForge is running a story about a project aiming to profile hackers like the police do with common criminals. Not based out of the U.S. per se, this project falls under the auspices of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). The project was co-founded by Stefania Ducci, in 2004, along with Raoul Chiesa." From the article: "NewsForge: What would the project concretely produce as final output? Stefania Ducci: The final goal is a real and complete methodology for hacker profiling, released under GNU/FDL. This means that, at the end of our research project, if a company will send us its (as detailed as possible) logs related to an intrusion, we — exactly like in the TV show C.S.I. when evidence is found on the crime scene — will be able to provide a profile of the attacker. By 'profile' we mean, for example, his technical skills, his probable geographic location, an analysis of his modus operandi, and of a lot of other, small and big, traces left on the crime scene. This will also permit us to observe and, wherever possible, preview new attack trends, show rapid and drastic behavior changes, and, finally, provide a real picture of the world of hacking and its international scene."
"exactly like in the TV show C.S.I. when evidence is found on the crime scene"
You mean they stand around in a dark room and spout techno-BS while a computer graphically and textually points out the obvious?
Too bad I bought the Rootkits book from Amazon, I know I should have gotten it at the bookstore and should have paid cash.
Oh that hacker is using Rootkit 123 so it must be somebody on the Internet!
White kid? Bad complexion? Limited social skills? Above average intelligence? Lives in parents basement?
"Round up the usual suspects"
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
If the title of a news article was "UN institutes Cracker profiling" the non-slashdot crowd would interpret it as "UN is racist against white people"
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
So if one does get cought by the UN will they just sanction them and them place them on double secret probabtion.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
Will the rankings be computerized?
Subject: One Perl Hacker; four-space indentation; 12% comments; averaging 34 lines per sub; prefers OO interface when available; abhores cuddly elses.
Cm'on now, can't we even get our terminology straight?.
AC: Only on slashdot... could the sentence "My hovercraft is full of eels." be moderated "+4, Insightful
That way when someone joins a project, you can look up his profile and read, "thinks that orange on neon green is an acceptable combination for user interfaces", and know to only let him work on the back-end of a project.
Frankly, some of those interfaces out there in FS/OS land are at least a misdemeanor. This project is long overdue.
the more accurate the calculations became, the more the concepts tended to vanish into thin air. R. S. Mulliken
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But that begs the question, should we really take this lying down?
I'm sorry, couldn't resist.
I have nothing to say.
So here it is: http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.21 47.html
enjoy