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Microsoft Cracked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the isn't-that-interesting dept.

jhughes was the first to note an article on Microsoft being cracked that (ironically enough) appears on msnbc. Not any of their "Main" sites, but it happens. Its an odd story about a lovesick cracker. Very strange.

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  1. More info on flipz by BlueCalx- · · Score: 4

    It looks like that, since MS was compromised, that flipz has done a job on some other pages of note - many being military boxen, most on NT :) Here is attrition's "record" on flipz - it includes all the sites he(she?) has compromised and it also has what all of the pages look like. Neat stuff, imo ;)

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  2. Conspiracy Theory? by pluteus_larva · · Score: 4

    Has anyone else noticed that whenever there's bad new about Microsoft, MSNBC always seems to be the first to report it? Do you suppose that at the first sign of something that might result in bad press, Microsoft immediately gets MSNBC the story, thinking that at the very least, it can use the situations to bolster the network's credibility?

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  3. cracked? by Trepidity · · Score: 5

    Hmm. The never-ending hack/crack debate. One the one hand, using "cracked" is obviously inappropriate, since the term already had a meaning in computer security prior to its application in 1984 to people who break into computers. It has, for as long as anybody remembers, described people who break the copy protection of software. This usage far predates the usage cited in the Jargon File (which itself admits to the 1984 date).

    On the other hand, the term "hacked" is obviously inappropriate in this case. This system intrusion was merely the work of a script kiddie, it appears, and hence is not any sort of hacking.

    We need a verb that means "broken into by a script kiddie," so as to differentiate from "broken into by an intelligent security expert" (which I'll continue to call "hacked") and from "breaking the copy protection of" (which I'll continue to call "cracked."

    I personally prefer to use the term "hax0red," which, helpfully, is what they often call it themselves, so it should not be hard to have this term adopted. This differentiates from mature, intelligent people, who use "hacked," to describe their work (whatever that work may be, be it kernel hacking or NT hacking) and the script kiddies who use 3l33t sp33k to describe their work. It also allows "hax0r d00d" to be used as a convenient synonym for "script kiddie."

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  4. Hack Billy G's house....THEN talk to me.. by Electric+Eye · · Score: 4

    Heh. The ultimate hack will be if someone can gain access to all of the NT servers supposedly controlling BG's big mansion in Seattle.
    I can see it now..... "HONEY! THE GARAGE ATE THE BABY!" "WILLIAM!!! I TOLD YOU TO STOP LEAVING YOUR FAVORITE NERD NYMPHOS WEB SITES ON THE 100 INCH SCREEN!!!!" "Dear, I swear....it wasn't me!"

    Ah....dreams......