Comments on: We can’t give hackers anything else to work with https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2 David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Mon, 25 May 2020 17:00:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/#comment-3712 Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:40:51 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1137#comment-3712 i need to know how to hack can anybody taech me and does anybody know any credit card numbers they can give to me i need them quick i am in deep do do with my parents please send a email to boarderboy85775@aol.com

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/#comment-3711 Mon, 06 Aug 2001 23:35:35 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1137#comment-3711 I’m only just getting in to all this stuff, but I have to say that reading Gibson’s report, I stubbled apon it whilst searching for something else, was a true eye opener. But it’s also made me realise that I have so much more to learn! Speaking to a friends kid a while back, he showed me all his programmeshe said he used to get in to other boxes. He then showed me the ease with which he obtained these scripts and programmes. The one good thing was that he got caught a while back and said he wouldn’t do it again. But anyway, if XP allows it to be easier to exploit peoples machines surely MS will see sence, but then again….

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/#comment-3710 Fri, 01 Jun 2001 21:49:15 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1137#comment-3710 Be very afraid. Gibson took another, more sophisticated DoS attack today. His site’s back up, though very slow, as I write.

Sadly and ironically, the Internet was designed to withstand nuclear war but can’t weather the whims of bored teenyboppers.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/#comment-3709 Fri, 01 Jun 2001 15:36:25 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1137#comment-3709 Make that "strings (filename)" — dunno why I put the argument in angle brackets.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/#comment-3708 Fri, 01 Jun 2001 15:35:05 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1137#comment-3708 I enjoy Gibson. He loves this stuff, and he knows it like no one else. The guy was already a legend in the early 1980s when I first started messing with computers in grade school, and he hasn’t stood still.

A program that just phones home and then waits for a command isn’t too complicated and you or I could probably manage to neuter a bot, given a couple of good books on x86 assembly programming, and the usernames and passwords are probably just stored in the bots plaintext (so putting a copy of the bot on a Unix box and typing "strings " would tell you a lot) but to Gibson this stuff is truly child’s play.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/#comment-3707 Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:44:54 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1137#comment-3707 I also read Steve Gibson’s account of the DoS attack and it’s really interesting. You can see in the efforts he make in neutering Wicked, he has a love for computers. The IRC chat with ^Boss is way too funny. "Oh I tracked you down by hacking a IRC bot and I also see that Wicked just HEX edited your Bots" he he he Good Stuff.

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