LMFAO. I read that and a switch went off. I know that kid.
Last year I did some development on a website whose owner spoke often of going to Defcon in Vegas. He also spoke of Anarchy, and causing Civil Disobedience at the Democratic convention. It didn't take me long to figure out he was using his site not to teach admins how to spot vulnerabilities in their web code, but to spread his own political agenda, and gather a willing army of script kiddies.
Needless to say our beliefs on hacking weren't the same. Whoever this person was at Defcon, he is an embarassment to the hacking community, both whitehats and blackhats.
I stopped in on the sites IRC server to see what was up with some old friends, turns out this guy has a court date not too far off something about striking a police officer.
I would bet it's the same guy.
His politics, and genuine lack of interest in teaching admins the skills necessary to find and fix flaws in thier code is why I left.
I'm all for hacking code, but the art would be better suited to securing systems and spreading the knowledge of how to secure, instead of teaching an army of script kiddies to be a leet hax0rz.
I'm all for hacking code, but the art would be better suited to securing systems and spreading the knowledge of how to secure, instead of teaching an army of script kiddies to be a leet hax0rz.
How do we know how to secure systems if someone isn't trying to crack them?
While Priest was only doing his job (Score:-1)
Re:While Priest was only doing his job (Score:4, Interesting)
Last year I did some development on a website whose owner spoke often of going to Defcon in Vegas. He also spoke of Anarchy, and causing Civil Disobedience at the Democratic convention. It didn't take me long to figure out he was using his site not to teach admins how to spot vulnerabilities in their web code, but to spread his own political agenda, and gather a willing army of script kiddies.
Needless to say our beliefs on hacking weren't the same. Whoever this person was at Defcon, he is an embarassment to the hacking community, both whitehats and blackhats.
I stopped in on the sites IRC server to see what was up with some old friends, turns out this guy has a court date not too far off something about striking a police officer.
I would bet it's the same guy.
His politics, and genuine lack of interest in teaching admins the skills necessary to find and fix flaws in thier code is why I left.
I'm all for hacking code, but the art would be better suited to securing systems and spreading the knowledge of how to secure, instead of teaching an army of script kiddies to be a leet hax0rz.
Re:While Priest was only doing his job (Score:1)
How do we know how to secure systems if someone isn't trying to crack them?
Re:While Priest was only doing his job (Score:2)
I thought the idea was to teach common methods and vulnerabilities so admins could pen test their own systems, but alas I was wrong.