This is great!!! I hate hackers and spammers

What an idiot.

 

stupid nerd, trying to give it to the MAN!!

 

So much for his 401k. Next stop, an ass raping!

 

His second biggest mistake, after doing this in the first place, was assuming he knew enough about the stock market that such a prank would cause their stock price to fall and let him make $$ on his options.

What a moron.

 

It pisses me of when the Media automaticly lables him as a hacker. He is not. Period. He is a formar disgrunteled employee who had the script kiddy skills of planting a logic bomb. Ooooo Ahhhh, ****ing blow it out our ass. This is the reason why certain people in the field always get discriminated against. At best, he would be a kracker. Hackers are not bad. Krackers/script kiddies and boderline cypher punks are. Mentor said it best,

==Phrack Inc.==

Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10

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The following was written shortly after my arrest...

\/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/

by

+++The Mentor+++

Written on January 8, 1986
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Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager
Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain,
ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what
made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of
the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.

I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain
for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms.
Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is
cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I
screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me...
Or feels threatened by me...
Or thinks I'm a smart ass...
Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.

And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through
the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is
sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is
found.
"This is it... this is where I belong..."
I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to
them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...

You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at
school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or
ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

+++The Mentor+++

Now the image we spent so long trying to preserve gets trashed (no pun intended) by the media and people who have no idea where the line is. I do penitration tests, I firewalk on firewalls, I stress the companies systems till the point of failure. Most, 99% of security pros use tools like nessus and these othe pen test tools and call them selfs hackers. I just use nmap, then my tool is my brain. Write my own exploits and find the problems through code by reading the code. All this for my comapany but who would you call a hacker? The fat network admin that went to some site like security focus and D/L a logic bomb, mapped to every computer on the network and did something like cp c:\logic.exe \\192.168.1.xxx\c:\Windows\System32 ? Hell, even Kevin Mitnik could do that. He more then likely could not understand pages like http://milw0rm.com or even as simple as packetstorm.

Let me clarify my point. He is NOT a hacker. Period.

sorry for the rant but...you technical people will know where I am coming from and I am sure that even the non technical people here are savvy enough to understand the difference.

 

Oh, I am not a Hacker I am a Security Expert.

 

Thanks for the post xavior, its been years since I last read that. I completely agree too, you'll rarely ever hear about "real" hackers in the media. I'd say kevin mitnick was probably the closest but that's debatable depending on your point of view.

 

+1

There was also no mention of him being a spammer.

I realize its a semantics issue, but articles like that really give hackers a bad name.