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    %#@$&*% Hacked Again !

    :gun2 To the kid in his parent's basement

    Get a life...move out...stop masturbating for a while.....
    There is more to life than creating viruses and internet porn...

    What am I talking about....it's probably Bill Gates :ahem


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    Re: %#@$&*% Hacked Again !

    Pains in the a$$!!
    My Webroot News had a story about and Israeli couple in London who were contracted to write spyware to monitor Israeli companies.
    http://www.computerweekly.com/Articl...dalemerges.htm
    So I guess it's not just slacker kids.

    http://www.informationweek.com/story...00789&tid=5979
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    Re: %#@$&*% Hacked Again !

    Quote Originally Posted by birdy
    What am I talking about....it's probably Bill Gates :ahem
    Quote Originally Posted by NeoFauve
    I guess it's not just slacker kids.
    When I last virus-crashed, I talked to some of the most well-known hackers in the nation about this (my buddy knows a few and I went to a Dead show with this one). Anyway, his take is that mos hackers are working for $ these days. Why would you stay in your prent's basement when someone will give you six figures to do the same work?

    Most of these folks are actually legitimate. IOW, doing the bidding of their corporate masters. Why would pimply kids care to track you buying and surfing habits?

    And then there are the software companies that make big $ on the instability of the web. He said, for every public prosecution of a anti-social cpu-tech grad student, or fourteen year old kid-whiz playing games with the web, there a thousands and thousands of well paid hackers plucked from the geek community doing network security work, etc.

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    Re: %#@$&*% Hacked Again !

    Before I got up and running again, the program took and disabled
    all my passwords and started multiplying in size X2 everytime I
    tried to disable it.

    I know this low form of life takes on many shapes, sizes and
    encompasses all age groups.

    "I know where you live you little bastard... :1959b "


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    Re: %#@$&*% Hacked Again !

    That reminds me time to do my weekly routine...

    Adaware, Spybot, MS Anti Spyware, etc...
    "We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness." Mark Twain

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    Re: %#@$&*% Hacked Again !

    The good guys are hackers. It is the worms in your news articles that are called crackers. They often get lumped together. However, a hacker may find a way in but he or she will will do no harm and tell you how to fix it. A Cracker is looking for a way in and has malicious intent.

    I take great pleasure in tracking the email headers for info and turning them in.

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    Re: %#@$&*% Hacked Again !

    Quote Originally Posted by dubya
    However, a hacker may find a way in but he or she will will do no harm and tell you how to fix it. A Cracker is looking for a way in and has malicious intent.
    Some European countries encourage this kind of hacking and even help host hacker conventions. Here in the states, you get prosecuted. "Violating" the prestige of faulty programs can land you in jail, even if you notify the hacked party and provide a fix.

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    Re: %#@$&*% Hacked Again !

    that's because there isn't a distinguishable line between the two and alot of people wanna keep it that way. The media can't seem to bring themselves to use the proper word to define the action, so everyone thinks its all bad.

    But you accuse an ethical hacker of being a cracker, you'll probably not like the consequences of that action.

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