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Stupid Hacker Tricks - The Folly of Youth
N_burnsy points out an article in Computerworld which "profiles several youthful hackers, some still serving prison time, some free, who have been caught indulging in some fairly serious cybercrime, and looks at their crimes and the lessons they have (or have not yet) learned.
Starting with Farid 'Diab10' Essebar, currently a guest of the Moroccan prison system, who wrote and distributed the Mytob, Rbot, and Zotob botnet Trojans. There's Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov, all guests of the Russian penal system, sentenced to eight years at hard labor for creating a botnet to engage in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks to blackmail online gambling sites based in the UK, threatening to take the sites down during major sporting events. Then there's Shawn Nematbakhsh who was a little too eager to prove a point about the electronic balloting system that the University of California employed to hold student council elections, by writing a script that cast 800 votes for a fictitious candidate named American Ninja." Not everyone on the list is exactly youthful, and the range of offenses shows how lumpy this area is both to the law and in public perception.
Shame on you Shawn Nematbakhsh, all respectable Slashdot-reading hackers know the fictitious candidate is always CowboyNeal.
alias possession='chmod 666 satan && ls
You know the fourth or fifth minute of any CSI episode, just before the Who song and the opening titles, wherein the cops are looking over the corpse of the week and one of them smirks and says something completely snarky and graveyard-humor-y about the whole situation to their appreciative chortling colleagues?
This whole article is like that.
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Student election?
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Halt candidate/follicle
Ninja insurrection
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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
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I wonder what would that Rinzai guy show to a sexual predator.
But really, who would not want a student council rep who could flip out and kill someone.
You aren't looking at the big picture. Imagine what calamity would have ensued if American Ninja had been elected to Student Council. Slaughter at Homecoming. Beheadings at Pep Rallies. Eviscerations at the Winter Ball.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
I feel kinda inadequete. Back when I was a kid, I read some outdated article on DoSing, so decided to open 20 command prompt windows pinging a server over my dial up connection.
It didn't go down. =(
~Jarik
But it would have been totally sweet.