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Hacker Group L0pht Making a Comeback
angry tapir writes "The news report begins with shots of a tense space shuttle launch. Engineers hunch over computer banks and techno music pounds in the background. There is a countdown, a lift-off, and then you see a young man in a black T-shirt and sunglasses, apparently reporting from 'space.' This is the Hacker News Network, and after a decade offline it is lifting off again, this time with a quirky brand of video reports about security. Hacker News Network is one of the side projects of the Boston-based hacker collective known as L0pht Heavy Industries. They're the guys who famously told the US Congress that they could take down the Internet in about 30 minutes, and who helped invent the way that security bugs are reported to computer companies."
The book The Best of 2600, a Hacker Odyssey is pretty good. http://www.amazon.com/Best-2600-Hacker-Odyssey/dp/0470294191 . And while it might not have the scope you are looking for on the groups themselves, it does seem to give mention to every major event in hacker history since 1984 when the magazine was published. Plus its pretty recent being published just in July of 08.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
I watched the last news video of them. Here is my impression:
* They recreated the feel of the 80's hacker optic mixed with matrix in an endless loop
(no, that was not a compliment)
* 20 % of the show was advertisement (maybe more)
* The news are mostly a summary on what you read here on security.slashdot.com
* The tone of the show gets boring.. well, immediately
The basic idea is nice, but the actual show is not that impressive. Could get better though..
9/11 was planed by Jewish people
The WTC was planed. 9/11 was *planned*.
I wish they could bring back the fine articles Sercrity Portal used to have, in particular, "Ask Buffy, by Buffy Overflow". Great stuff there.
Yes, because no one has yet invented DNS caching.
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Oh wait.
Yes, those servers are important, but they don't handle every single DNS lookup directly. They wouldn't be able to withstand that. Taking down those servers would only inconvenience people by temporarily preventing them from contacting domains that weren't in their DNS server's cache.
A more effective target would be to attack IXPs and prevent the traffic from flowing between Internet carriers. There are quite a lot of those, though, and it would be exceptionally difficult (bordering on impossible) to pull off.
Hilarious.
For those who don't get the reference.. This link will help.
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