A Hacker's Audacious Plan To Rule the Underground

An anonymous reader writes "Wired has the inside story of Max Butler, a former white hat hacker who joined the underground following a jail stint for hacking the Pentagon. His most ambitious hack was a hostile takeover of the major underground carding boards where stolen credit card and identity data are bought and sold. The attack made his own site, CardersMarket, the largest crime forum in the world, with 6,000 users. But it also made the feds determined to catch him, since one of the sites he hacked, DarkMarket.ws, was secretly a sting operation run by the FBI."

Comments

Re:White hat?

[Anonymous Coward]

It comes from old Western movies. The "good guy" cowboys all wore white hats, and the "bad guys" wore black hats.

Re:Rather interesting line at end of article...

[jjohnson]

AES does not come from the NSA. "AES" stands for "Advanced Encryption Standard", and the algorithm selected, Rijndael, comes from two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted it to the AES selection process. All algorithms that took part were publicly evaluated for five years by the cryptography community at large, and Rijndael was selected pretty much by public acclaim.

Re:Article?

[TheoMurpse]

Yes, just as "homophobe" only means "afraid of that which is the same as them," "you" is only the polite form of indicating the addressee ("ye" being the casual form), "villa" only means "farm," "awful" only means "deserving of awe," and "girl" only means "young child of either sex,".

Here's a tip: words change meaning.

Re:White hat?

[Anonymous Coward]

White hats don't hack networks without permission, even if they plan to alert the network owner later. That is pure gray hat territory.

White hat hackers do pen tests, but only when given permission (or, more often, are hired to do so).

Re:My Ambition

[halcyon1234]

I get sick of explaining this, but the sig (which could not completely fit because of /.) ... void PAUSE(){ printf("\nPress any key to continue. . ."); while(1) getch(); } // enforce the 'any' key

Just a note: The sig char limit seems to have been increased to 120. I don't know when that happened, but if you go to Help & Preferences, General, scroll down to Sig and click the [?], it says 120.

An upgrade like that, I don't mind. As for the userpage, it's still ruined one of my favorite parts of Slashdot, and I'm fucking bitter about it