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Lone Iranian Claims Credit For Comodo Hack
nk497 writes "A boastful Iranian hacker has claimed sole responsibility for the Comodo security certificate attack, saying it had nothing to do with his government. The 21-year-old claimed via a note on PasteBin, 'I'm not a group of hacker, I'm single hacker with experience of 1,000 hackers.' While some researchers believed his claims, saying the media had accepted Comodo's claims that the attack was from the Iranian government too easily, others said it was impossible to tell if the hacker was real, or a PR move by Iran."
Isn't Slashdot providing this dude a platform for [free] publicity? Why is this story even here? Nothing about it is substantiated at all.
The only thing I can guarantee is that there is a human being at the other end who is now in the news.
New infosec meme.... "with experience of 1,000 hackers."
This message is sort of retarded. First he tried to solve prime factorization, and then he was like "maybe I should hack a CA instead"? And later he will do us the favor of "proving it is not possible" to come up with a prime factorization algorithm?
If he has the experience of 1000 hackers, it would still not involve a single woman.
I mean come on, really?
'I'm not a group of hacker, I'm single hacker with experience of 1,000 hackers.'
Sounds just like the Iraqi Information Minister or Kim Jong Il. "Oh no no no! I not a group or government no! I am super skilled hacker with skill of 1000 men. I can play 18 rounds of golf in 18 shots by getting 18 hole in one. Yes! I just that good!"
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
The individual, who calls himself ComodoHacker
Well, there you are.
Snake Plisskin. I've heard of you. I HEARD YOU WERE DEAD!
Follow-ups:
"I should mention my age is 21"
"How smartass you are?"
"My orders will equal to CIA orders"
"I'm a GHOST"
"I'm unstoppable, so afraid if you should afraid, worry if you should worry."
"I did it one time, make sure I'll do it again" (reminds me of Steve Ballmer)
"RSA 2048 was not able to resist in front of me"
I read all of his Pastie's.
If you want a laugh, read them.
A lot of egotistical shit talk from a guy who doesn't realize RSA simply cannot be "cracked". It's impossible.
If you had any common sense, you would use your "hacks" on the actual people who have/had access to having CR's resigned.
Also, let's not just throw around "symmetric" and "asymmetric" when dealing with encryption and hashing, it just makes you look dumb.
And working on a way to derive two prime factors of a number is ridiculous, you won't ever accomplish it. Simply because we are dealing with numbers larger than the processing ability of most computers that can be accessed (spare some), and the fact that primality tests aren't something you can simply "write".
I thought I had an epiphany in math class a few weeks ago (pre-calc is boring as fuck, and my Ti-84 only can do so much, even with asm programmin), and realized that if you took any number, you can first run it against basic tests and tests of division. Even numbers out, numbers whom digits add up to a multiple of 3 are out, etc. After that, you are fucked.
RSA is secure. Period. It's implementation can only be *so* secure.
And lol, if you want to do something actually epic, and worth bragging about, steal the private RSA key and code yourself a resigner. Until then, stop acting like you did anything tremendously amazing.
This is all >implying this kid isn't just frontin.
-Thilo The "Hax"
Are you talking about yourself? You're only in high school. The extent of your formal math knowledge is beneath basic calculus. Shut up and get over yourself.
I am an Iranian dissident living outside Iran and this guy is VERY pro-government, which is a rarity in Iran if you are following the news.. Line 41: "A message in Persian: Janam Fadaye Rahbar" Means "my life sacrificed for the Leader". Only Khamenei goons otter that. I smell something fishy. Can't be a lone hacker...
Why would that make him legit? Just means if he's an Iranian propaganda agent that the actual group of Iranians, from perhaps Iranian military establishments that did the hack gave it to this PR guy to paste.
We know the hack was real, we know it came from Iran, nothing there changes that. That doesn't in any way prove he was a lone individual. only that he is at least connected to the person or people that really did the attacks.