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starwars.com Cracked
Jon Hedley writes "While the perpetrator remains unknown, Lucasfilm's Star Wars Web site was the victim of its first crack today.
The vandalism consisted of a list of names, presumably those of the hacker's friends, according to Lucasfilm.
News.com reports that there are 20 - 30 crack attempts a day to the site.
" Geez. I'd think anyone smart enough to do this would be smart enough not to...
Please use the proper term of 'hacked' yes hackers do bad things but they also do good things. Thank the media for throwing in the word 'cracker'. Cracking a site sounds dumb anyway. Starwars.com was hacked earlier today. Now see doesn't that sound a whole lot better?
Well put; painting a web site is a lot less damaging than painting a wall. Kids have got to rebel, part of human nature.
"Starwars.com was hacked earlier today."
Wrong! Starwars.com was vandalised, not hacked.
Hacking means improving some code or pieces of hardware.
The bunch of brainless script kiddies wasting their time defacing websites are more criminal than hacker.
Cracking deals with encryption and passwords. Two years ago it would have read 'hacked' but now thanks to people like you its 'cracked'
Yea, I think all extremists should be shot!!!
I'm not convinced that they truly got into the system without inside help! If they can vandalize
the site, does it necessarily mean they have root access? Not really, right? Please educate me.
DS
oh so its ok to crack some sites (nasa) (indian nuke comission) but its not ok to crack others (starwars)
face it, starwars is not a sacred cow.
in fact there are no sacred cows.
life is cheap. web site security is cheaper.
im sure your attitude will be well appreciated.
sometimes satire is like too uhh
surgical for anyone to actually get it
Here's the URL, from theforce.net:
j pg
http://www.theforce.net/prequels/pics/sitehack.
This person is obviosuly a troll. It's
painfully obvious. "Don't feed the
trolls"
>I can understand the teenage rush of cracking sites. --I'm a teenager myself (almost out of my teens but o well).
Right. Myself as well.
>But defacing sites? Lame. What does this prove? You prove to the whole world how big your ego is and how lame you are. Wanna prove how big your nuts are? Start optimizing your code.
Right. The whole crackerism culture was in my opinion spawn by the peecee world brought to you by Mircosoft.
>Anyways, I hope sys. admins of the world start getting clues. I know the sysadmin @ Lucas Arts was good, but thae other 35k websites out there...
Right. It's too bad we need security at all, but this should definitely send a message to sysadmins out there. Too bad almost none of them wise up, and use software with the source. (Of course, source is no knowledge replacement. But even with zero knowledge, you're better off with a more secure product.)
>And these kids should all get prosicuted for breaking and entering as well as vandalism. A couple of weeks in juvinial hall would do these kids some good.
No! Here's where I violently disagree with you (peacefully). The government should keep its hands and its legislation off of "computer crime." Well, in this case I suppose there would nevertheless be grounds for legislation anyway, on par with spraypainting a storefront, I don't know, some fine, counseling, and/or community service, whatever they do for that kind of behavior.
But I am strongly opposed to the government putting out regulations on what you can or can't do to someone's machine on the internet. The government doesn't know how to handle this, and it leads to fascist restrictions and abuse of power, and mockery of human rights, and most importantantly, unfair, out-of-proportion treatment. Look at Mitnick. He's still in jail, after 3.5 years with no trial. I agree, he was lame. But what kind of "punishment" is that? Who did he actually hurt to deserve this treatment? Look at the Bernie S. case. This is what is bound to happen if we let the government become champion of feeble sysadmins.
There is a picture of it on www.theforce.net
/prequel/, or /prequels.html or something like that. Anyway, there is a link from the main page.
Got to the prequel page. I think it is www.theforce.net/prequels/ , but it might be
Do you really care ? If so, someone tagged the seats at the rear of a bus I usually take: do you want some scanned photos ? (some toilets tags might also interest you)
check it out, at http://www.gifwizard.com/
Well I know that I could not have put it any better my self.
But agreee 100%
sorry too tempting
require intellegence?
Like I'm so upset about this.
What does George Lucas care, sitting back on his Posture-iffic chair, smoking another Cuban cigar, thinking and laughing, 'Yeah, I've conned the idiotic geek public into seeing the re-releases of my old films--I've made another $300 million because I spliced in another two minutes of film'?
Believe me, he doesn't. He doesn't even care about these new films. He's sitting back, smoking his stogie, laughing his already way too rich ass off, thinking once again about how he's pulled another fast one off on the public for a minimal investment over a almost 20-year-old movie franchise nobody really cares about anyway.
What's a website to him anyway?
I could have sworn it was fixed earlier today but is slightly modified now. Must be new because the page is slightly different from the jpg from theforce.net.
"port scans and failed login attempts as root"
/home/httpd/cgi-bin/nph-test-cgi failed for ad48-141.compuserve.com, reason: script not found or unable to stat
/home/httpd/cgi-bin/phf failed for news.ramk.fi, reason: script not found or unable to stat
/home/httpd/cgi-bin/phf failed for kinneret.kinneret.co.il, reason: script not found or unable to stat
Also all kinf of cheapo attempt to exploit reported security holes of the various programs, such as:
[Sun Jul 6 04:08:46 1997] access to
[Sat Jul 26 22:07:21 1997] access to
[Tue Aug 26 02:45:56 1997] access to
- cracking n. The act of breaking into a computer system; what a cracker does. Contrary to widespread myth, this does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems. Accordingly, most crackers are only mediocre hackers.
- cracker n. One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8). An earlier attempt to establish `worm' in this sense around 1981--82 on USENET was largely a failure.
- .
The entries of the "Jargon File" about "warez d00d" and "phreaking" might also interest you.Use of both these neologisms reflects a strong revulsion against the theft and vandalism perpetrated by cracking rings. While it is expected that any real hacker will have done some playful cracking and knows many of the basic techniques, anyone past larval stage is expected to have outgrown the desire to do so except for immediate, bebign, practical reasons (for example, if it's necessary to get around some security in order to get some work done).
Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might expect. Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe themselves as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life.
Ethical considerations aside, hackers figure that anyone who can't imagine a more interesting way to play with their computers than breaking into someone else's has to be pretty losing. Some other reasons crackers are looked down on are discussed in the entries on cracking and phreaking. See also samurai, dark-side hacker, and hacker ethic, the. For a portrait of the typical teenage cracker, see warez
"Ok, defacing the site was a little childish but it does force the system administrators to "review" their security policies"
The problem is that current OSes have a crappy security by design (Unix, maybe less true for the design of Windows NT): thus fixing products won't help, there would still be bugs. What is needed is to improve the security of the OSes ; that's the problem with crackers: if they had spent 1% of their crack attempt time in something more useful, an implemention of a robust security model for Linux/{Free;Open,Net}BSD would have been done (and would have been a tremendous boost for Freenixes).
But I suspect most can't code well, can't understand the highest abstraction of OSes/security design, or most probably aren't interested in making the world better, but are only wanting to had imaginary scalps to their billboard.
yeah that the second hack the first one showed ....
Star Wars: Welcome to the Evil Empire! #hax
in the title
and in the news
The Evil empire is watching you!hello to digit, crazy-b, luke skyw, tmoggie, gaius, cisco9, f1ex, angrignon, ttyp0, xcsh,
mirror is at http://just5.stock.com.pl/starwars/in dex.html
yeah that the second hack the first one showed Star Wars: Welcome to the Evil Empire! #hax in the title and in the news The Evil empire is watching you!hello to digit, crazy-b, luke skyw, tmoggie, gaius, cisco9, f1ex, angrignon, ttyp0, xcsh, .... mirror is at http://just5.stock.com.pl/starwars/in dex.html
"..looking for weak systems" ?
Have you read the article? They mension that it was a sk "social hack" as opposed to software based. You can have a virtual fortress and still be at risk due to "stoopid" users on the inside.
After actually reading the article I discovered they said it was only "social-hack" That may or may not take more intellegence (I would say it is definately at a level up from script kiddiedom) but it's nothing to brag about.
I sort of agree, but the best offense against
kkk is to just go look at their site.
They're clearly a bunch of mental defectives.
No site hacking is needed. The only people
they will attract are hopeless in the first place.
Yeah, but someone defaces a wall every minute in
this country. How often are sites cracked?
People need to learn to relax... I'd rather have people tagging web sites than the very real problems of stealing cc's and social security nums.
And cracking godhatesfags or kkk wouldn't be acting like a bunch of retarded immature babies? Who's immature? People who hack high-profiles sites for "glory", or people who hack sites with opinions they hate to mock, deride, and squelch them?
Personally, I think that kkk, godhatesfags, nambla, and any number of other organizations are very in the wrong. But they believe in what they believe in. Mocking, deriding, and squelching them is only going to give them ammunition. Persecution only spreads bad beliefs.
OTOH, if someone from KKK actually attacks a black, or if someone from GHF actually attacks a homosexual, or if someone from NAMBLA actually abuses a child, that is a different matter, and that is something that needs to be dealt with severely in a due process.
But if you start deciding whose opinions merit mocking, deriding, and squelching, where do you draw the line? Suppose I am a "rabid" conservative and detest the ACLU? Or suppose I am a "rabid" liberal and detest the FRC?
My conclusion is that all viewpoints must be tolerated, even if simultaneously extremely opposed. There are people on all sides.
I wonder what they consider a "hack attempt" such that there are 20 or 30 per day? Just curious...
(What would be cooler to see would be Lucas getting smacked in the face with a creme pie, like what happened to that EU guy and Gates.)
- A.P.
(P.S.: Please don't reply with stuff like "you godless Starwars-hating asshole." I honestly don't give a rats ass if that's all you have to say.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Umm, I don't break into computer systems, yet I "whine" about Kevin Mitnick anyway. He's been held for nearly FOUR years without a trial, which is something I thought only happened in places like China. Then the Secret Service brings up some BS about him being a "threat to national security," which is also China-esque. And they won't let him have a walkman because they're afraid he'll use his mythical super-hacker powers to do something evil with it. If he's guilty, they should go ahead and convict him. If not, then release him. Either way, he should have had a trial more than three years ago.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Posted by OGL:
Why do these morons keep doing this stuff? They waste their time cracking sites to be 3L33t, then they whine about Kevin Mitnick or some other bozo. Why don't they make themselves useful by cracking www.godhatesfags.com or www.kkk.com instead of acting like a bunch of retarded little immature babies?
-W.W.
Posted by Charles Bronson:
The report says this was a 'social-hack' (the first time I've ever heard that term) and that a password was leaked. So it was probably some dork with AOL who had a friend at LucasFilms or something.
Posted by Anhydrous Cowboy:
I stood in two-hour lines to see the first three "films" ("the first film", "the second film") and all I can say is, THE KIDS OF TODAY SHOULD DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THE SEVENTIES. It's not reality, it's just someone else's sentimentality! It won't work for you!
My first schoolyard fight was over Star Wars > Star Trek (you know, TOS -- the one with REAL science fiction writers raping Willy the Shake). If you spend more than twelve seconds a day thinking about the prequel, you need to drop acid and watch "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on a REALLY BIG TELEVISION. Go on, you know you want to.
In my opinion, yes, people who crack sites in order to stand up for what they believe in are less lame than those who simply want a billboard. Does this excuse the peoplke who hack Chinese government websites? No. Crackers will always be immature, because if they weren't they would be producing something useful with whatever inane talent they have managed to garner from their late-night zit-scratching.
But let me say this: A group whose only purpose is to take away the rights of others is not worth my or anyone else's time listening to. Nothing can "give them ammunition" because even the idea of any of these freaks ever being slightly in the right are beyond the limits of any lucid imagination.
But this was off-topic to begin with. My original idea was that crackers cannot make a point by thinking independantly. They can only regurgitate trendy things about Mitnick or whichever hot cracker issue of the week. Sorry if I was too subtle.
-W.W.
Anyone have a URL of what the cracked site looked like?
ChiefArcher
STAR WARS SITE CODE
secret name - strwrs01
secret code pass thingee - dfX8236
-- The unsig...
C'mon, get a clue. The nature of the Dark Side is such that its minions will always work for indiscriminate destruction and self-serving ends, not for good.
You guys call this a hack? I call this non-sense. I don't remember crackers in the early 90s and late 80s being this dumb.
If you want to get your friends names distributed around town, here is my advice. Get a big sign spray paint your friends names on this big sign. Place sign in yard.
I can understand the teenage rush of cracking sites. --I'm a teenager myself (almost out of my teens but o well). But defacing sites? Lame. What does this prove? You prove to the whole world how big your ego is and how lame you are. Wanna prove how big your nuts are? Start optimizing your code.
Anyways, I hope sys. admins of the world start getting clues. I know the sysadmin @ Lucas Arts was good, but the other 35k websites out there... And these kids should all get prosicuted for breaking and entering as well as vandalism. A couple of weeks in juvinial hall would do these kids some good.
Wake up world.
Heheh.. Is getting wasted good enough for you?
Say it out loud and type it with me, folks... fa/na/ta/ci/sm.
:) But yeah, I can't stand all the Star Wars hype on here. Remember when the trailer was going to be shown? There were so many articles on the *trailer*! And many reports of people going to a movie just to see the trailer, and then leaving when the Star Wars trailer was shown or when all the previews were over, whichever came first...
Sorry.
What a waste of $10.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
Here's one instance where the Dark side of the Force may be useful. Strangulation from afar would be just what these idiots deserve.
The s/// you had should be made a s///g and should be inserted into most industry journalist with a sledgehammer.
Thank you.
Also called "wetware" A lot of hacks are done this way, rather than technical knowledge.
Lando
/* TODO: Spawn child process, interest child in technology, have child write a new sig */
Jeez.. THX1138... knowing that is the sign of a real geek.. :-) :-)
Too bad Lucas has the license plate.. I want it..
Hacking: Exploring an information system for the sake of knowledge.
Cracking: Exploring an information system for the sake of personal gain (be it monetary (stealing passwords, credit card numbers, etc.), ego-boosting (as this was) or whatever)
Excuse the nested parentheses.
If you are going to 'hack' something, the idea is to KEEP root, and not just f*** up a page.... that is sooooo lame.
:)
Talk about stupidity... try NOT to put yer name on it.........
Try to hack some sites such as 2600.com, hack.com etc.
Of course, starwars.com is an exception to this, but in general, that's why they don't crack sites like KKK.