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World's Worst Hacker?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-the-most-skilled-man dept.

An anonymous reader submitted a video clip that allegedly demonstrates a hacker working in a honeypot. If you fear for the future security of the internet, this video will set your mind at ease.

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  1. Video Here by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Informative

    That was quick slashdotting..any alternate links?

    Here's the YouTube video I watched on his site while it was in Firehose.

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    1. Re:Video Here by Straterra · · Score: 5, Informative

      One can also watch the text-only version by telneting in to 94.255.168.108 (This was gleaned from the blog owner's twitter account).

  2. Outsourcing everywhere by ugen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think what we see here (and I am being serious) is outsourcing at work. He downloads tools from a subnet in Pakistan, likely homebase.
    Just like anything from software development to customer service is being offshored to lowest bidder and services being performed by people without appropriate skills, simply because they are cheap. Same thing here - mass hacking is a business, and it is being outsourced to cheap unskilled labor. Look at this and laugh - then realize, this is the kind of quality of production that modern legitimate businesses rely on every day. Scary, ain't it?

    1. Re:Outsourcing everywhere by zach_the_lizard · · Score: 5, Funny

      $zach@zach-desktop:~$>cd /comments
      comments: no such file or directory found
      $zach@zach-desktop:~$>cd /witty-retort
      witty-retort:no such file or directory found
      $zach@zach-desktop:~$>mkdir comments
      $zach@zach-desktop:~$>cd comments
      $zach@zach-desktop:~/comments$>echo "I'm not the lowest bid!"
      I'm not the lowest bid!
      $zach@zach-desktop:~/comments$>cd /a
      a: no such file or directory
      Grrr......
      $zach@zach-desktop:~/comments$>telnet slashdot.org 80
      Trying 216.34.181.45...
      Connected to slashdot.org.
      Escape character is '^]'.
      Post comments
      Connection closed by foreign host.

      Now let's see if they posted my comment.....

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  3. Re:What he's doing? by bsDaemon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I saw this last week. There were all kinds of hilarious inabilities to properly change directories or find scripts, which is why he kept downloading the same crap over and over again. Just for fun, my boss here (at a well-known company that makes security products involving pigs) fetched some of the files that the kid was trying to use. Half of the scripts were just fucking awful, such as hard-coding repetitive actions rather than using loops. The so-called "hacker" also left clues to his identity all over the crappy "sploits", too.

    I honestly have a hard time believing the douchebag in the video was able to get a shell, even on a honeypot, and then fail to be able to change directories. However, the kits he was fetching were also so terrible I don't think that even if this hadn't been a honeypot he'd ever have gotten any local privilege escalations anyway.

  4. Direct Youtube Link by animeshpathak · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who are getting a slashdotted server, here is the video.

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  5. Tracer Tee by Bratch · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think watching the "Tracer T" video from NextGenHacker101 will also set your mind at ease about the future of hackers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM

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