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mmm. Madeline McCann is still getting a lot of publicity. Now the HP books have joined the crowd. Publicity is not a function of importance/ability/relavence. Certain things just catch the media and get blown WAAAAY out of proportion. Its one of the reasons I generally shun the news. Any idiot can get himself on the news and become famous.
Not the first of his kind, but the first to generate such media face-time. Nothing special, but a great entry-level reference for social engineering.
In reality, he comes off as a self-importrant, self absorbed douchebag. Are true 'hackers' like that? Wouldn't you rather learn and test and experiment in private? Above that...would you want a media deal AFTER you got busted for it? He's capitalizing on his name, nothing more.
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Ard~ has a good point. The people we know about are the ones who are self-publicising media creations or are those who have been caught.
David L Smith?............. he wrote the "Melissa" virus........... he also wrote the "Microsoft Office 97 Poppy Macro Virus Generation Toolkit".......... it is very slick with its own help file and instruction manual.......... but when you look at the metadata you find that the guy used his own legitimately registered copy of Office 97 :rolleyes: what a bozo! Actually, I got a very nice e-mail from an FBI Supervisory Special Agent when I passed that little "gem of wisdom" on to them :D
If you want to look at really skillful stuff just check out the Magistr virus. Written in assembly code (mostly) with polymorphic capabilities and twin encryption engines. I guess the bit where it tries to flash your BIOS is a bit nasty, but we all keep a spare don't we?
That was written by a Russian guy about my age :shocked:..... he never got caught, and he wrote a lot of "quality" malware (technically speaking).
Anyone who thinks that Mitnick was/is tecnically talented must positively revere the author of the "lovebug" a.k.a. "I love you" VBS script virus?
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Witch is obviously half the clowns that have replied to this thread.. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by nihil
lol :drink:
Hi Teabags,
This is one that I would like to share with you...........
I was working for this weponz of mass destruction outfit...... I had my own little cave, and this big project office............ the General Infrastructure Support team and myself sort of "got on" :drink:
So I wrote this little 4 line .reg and persuaded the secutity officer to add it to the logon script one morning.................
So, the "lovebug" arrives, and I get a GIS phonecall (I got helpdesk stuff until one of them got into work)............. what does all this mean? what do I do?.............like we have an EVP on the line here :D
I said, and may God be my witness:
1. Correct all spelling, grammar and syntax errors.
2. Correct all VBS coding errors
3. Beef up the payload.
4. Send it to some bastard who really deserves it.
I guess that was the correct answer, because later that day, the steward of the onsite club rang me to say that I had 11 gallons of beer on the house....
The General Infrastructure Support team thought I was "one of them" after that.................
As Bill the Cat would say: ack phtt!
The thing that got Mitnick really recognized was all of the myths and half-truths that were floating everywhere. Its like the phone game(or whatever it is called now) One person talks about something then the other person tells someone else and on. Turns completely into something different in the end. Not to mention that 2600 may have had a "Teeny Weeny" part in spreading his name.
On another note. Didnt his websites get hacked last year or something??? Doesnt that say anything to anyone calling him a 'hacker hero'? Im not saying Im the greatest in securing my websites but I also didnt get famous(infamous?) for being some uber leet haxor.
Edit: Woot! 100th post!
Nope it wasn't he's website that got hacked, it was the hosting company's server that got hacked, the attackers where then able to navigate around the different accounts with admin rights, they found the Mitnick file and just edited the index file.Quote:
Originally Posted by mungyun
I didnt hear about that one. lawl
I remember all the defaced sites with the "Free Kevin" logo.
Kevin Mitnick is a lying, over-rated douche.
In case anyone was wondering, Kevin is for sale. Just do a Yahoo! Search and look towards the bottom of the screen:
Amazon.com - Low prices on Kevin mitnick. Qualified orders over $25 ship free. :eek: