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LaminatorX
on Friday April 18 2014, @05:23PM
from the Law-and-Disorder-on-the-Electronic-Frontier dept.
from the Law-and-Disorder-on-the-Electronic-Frontier dept.
The earlier, bigger part of hacking history often had congregations as protagonists. From CCC in the early 80s to TESO in the 2000s, through LoD, MoD, cDc, L0pht, and the many other sung and unsung teams of hacker heroes, our culture was created, shaped, and immortalized by their articles, tools, and actions.
Why don't we see many hacker groups anymore? And why is that that the few which are around, such as Anonymous and its satellite efforts, do not have the same cultural impact as their forefathers?
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by hybristic on Friday April 18 2014, @07:02PM
I used to work for HBGary before the hack happened, and even talked to a few of the guys about what happened afterwards. The system that was compromised was a 3rd party CMS developed by some douche. They however didn't take the time to ensure that what he developed was secure, because in their minds it wasn't a critical system, and should never have had information that would effect their mission critical systems. Keep in mind that this was a system designed for HBGary Federal, not their normal operations. And the guy in charge of making sure that HBGary Federal was secure is the same weak link that gave them access to other, normal HBGary operations. Aaron Barr, CEO of a federal security contractor, used the same password EVERYWHERE!! That then leaked over into the normal operations of HBGary, and Greg's personal stuff like rootkit.com. Having worked with Aaron, this is no real shock to me when I heard it. What surprised me was that people like Greg and Martin would allow for something so stupid to ever occur. They usually never cut corners. While I have some moral objections against my former employer, the guys I worked with were very smart. I think in the end they got so focused on the system based exploits that they forgot about the internet. Also, they were in the process of building a game at the time, so that might have caused some additional distractions.
(Score: 1) by timbim on Friday April 18 2014, @08:23PM
Game? What kinda game?
(Score: 3, Funny) by hybristic on Friday April 18 2014, @09:30PM
Good question. I believe it was a space RPG, maybe MMO even, using Unity engine. But I am not sure what ever came of that.