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Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry

Posted by msmash on from the bad-guy-turns-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes: One of the most notorious hackers around has decided to dox himself after getting tired of hacking companies and failing to find a legitimate job in the infosec community. Razvan Eugen Gheorghe, 24, is one of the early LulzSec members and leader of Team GhostShell. He is now hoping to get arrested so that he could negotiate a plea deal and become a white hat hacker with a company or state agency somewhere. For the past 4 years, the hacker was literally 2km away from Romania's crime investigation unit, a 10-minute ride away.

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  1. Neat... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So a criminal has decided to get a real job, but he can't because he has committed a bunch of crimes, and employers might not want criminals working for them. Maybe he should have considered not committing crimes in the first place.

    I don't feel much sympathy for him since people like him have caused so many problems for law-abiding citizens all over the world.

  2. Re:Nope. No way. No chance. by jtayon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What scares me is that given it is harder to recruit black hats and they have access to less qualified work force they do a pretty good job at defeating top notch major in CS.

    Our HR recruitment process are clearly recruiting expansive work force, but not a good one.

    I feel more and more uncomfortable with the actual lack of practical knowledge of dev/sysadmins/architects that comes out of schools to directly push stuff in production that are shit.

    25 years I do this job, 25 years I know how to avoid SQL injections, 25 years I get fired for asking we remove these from our code base, as much as obsolete ciphers, shell injection, cookie theft, mechanism that result in amplification of DOS ...

    Well, if computer industry want to lose the trust of their customers by not hiring competent workers, they began by losing mine.

    And I do encourage people actively to back all their valuable they can from internet nowadays. This industry is irresponsible.

  3. *turns himself in by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 3, Insightful
    s/doxes/turns himself in.

    Can we please stop using random neologisms-du-jour and get back to real language?

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    My first program:

    Hell Segmentation fault