Hackers or what?

Sometimes I'm asking what could be the philosophy of an hacker... finding flaws to see that he's the best? Exploiting systems for business? All is possible...

What really I don't know is why some hackers decide to publish their exploit code on the net. why this? Pubblicity? Do you want that someone says that you're the best?

Can you think what could be the danger to publish on the net an exploit code? Too many times we can see stupid young boys that surf the net to find exploit code to try. An exploit code on the wrong hand is like a bomb...

I want to see to the hacker that in these days has published the MS JPEG Flaw Exploit Code that his action is really stupid. I've tryed to find the code simply by searching it on traditional search engines and I've found 3 places where you can download the exploit (4464 byte).

Congratulation... you're the best... of stupids!

Print | posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:26 AM

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This is my new tagline for BBS posts.

"Congratulation... you're the best... of stupids!"
Left by Scott on Sep 23, 2004 8:55 AM

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Great Send me the link to your comments
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Sep 24, 2004 4:21 AM

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In the hacking world, there are basically 2 types of hackers: Black hat and White hat. Black hats are the ones that are rooting your box 6 months before the exploit is even known. White hats are the guys that sift through machine code looking for holes so they can let the vendor know and possibly try to create a patch before the vendor can issue one. I wouldn't criticize the efforts of the "honest hacker" for making the vulnerability known. I guess you would rather wait until MS finds it 2 years down the road....
Left by Michael on Sep 24, 2004 6:45 AM

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