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Exposing the hidden history of computer hacking

jonsie
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An interesting article here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28214646

In 1998, Chris Wysopal and friends discovered a way to shut down the internet.

With just 30 minutes of work they believed they could do enough damage to stop the world wide network operating for a couple of days.

They told people about what they found but not in a chat channel or discussion forum. They did it in a much more public place. In the US Senate, in fact. In front of its Committee on Governmental Affairs.

 

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Thank you for sharing jonsie slight_smile
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That makes a fascinating read....Cheeky, the route they took to announce it....Smiley Very Happy

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That's it. A linux box and active firewall should see me good....

 

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Thank you for sharing.

Goes to show how clever these guys are.

Scary. 😄
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@Anonymous wrote:
Thank you for sharing.

Goes to show how clever these guys are.

Scary. 😄

The majority of "hackers" aren't this smart and in fact are just scipt kiddies that run scripts written by someone else to achieve something like a denial of service attack.

 

A good movie for the younger members of the community to see just how hacking started out is War Games starring a young Mathew Broderick. Its a classic!

 

 

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