Anti-Sec spoof threatens s'kiddie mayhem
Pranksters have latched onto Anti-Sec's quixotic crusade against full disclosure of security vulnerabilities by impersonating the group in a threat to unleash an OpenSSH exploit. The impersonators threatened to release details of an unpatched vulnerability in OpenSSH, followed by worm code hours later. A post on a full …
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The Anonymous Collective declares....
"Whether Anti-Sec reciprocates these feelings remains unknown but we'd suggest the odds are against it. "
What? Why? Both the pranksters and the originals look like they are a spawn of /b/, so they would get right along.
In English please
Are all these "hacker" fucktards illiterate? Come back when you can actually use the English language.
anti-sec are skiddies?
I conclude that full-disclosure is starting to hurt the black market trade in vulnerabilities, hence anti-sec (accurately named I think) trying to stop full disclosure.
tautology-tastic
"The prank illustrates the potential pitfalls of an anonymous internet campaign on the web."
as opposed to an internet campaign... somewhere else? Is this like having a road rage incident on a road?
Next you'll be claiming people who comment on articles are a bit pedantic...
@Eponymous Cowherd
No, it's because they're a bunch of little sh... ow-offs.
Minor Correction
The correct name for this pest is "Kiddiots", not "Script Kiddies" or (worse) "s'kiddies". Kiddiots.
//Svein
@tautology-tastic
"Internet" could be what the campaign is for, and the web could be its location (as opposed to masked people picketing outside Anti-Sec offices), in which case, it would not be a tautology.
Don't give weev anymore attention, please.
The New York Times article was his proverbial jumping of the shark. Please don't feed the trolls.
Hackers on steroids? Oh shi-
I doubt that is /b/, but more likely some other bunch of wannabes. Doesn't smell right. For instance, /b/ would have dropped a meme into their posts there, something like "I think Anti-Sec is a pretty cool guy, eh gets trolled by skiddies and doesn't afraid of anything". I'd suspect it's maybe Something Awful or perhaps lulznet...
@Jez; The web is the internet?
Damn, the eighties and early nineties with Archie and Veronica, spam-free email and newsgroups, ftp &c seemed so vivid ... and I don't even take drugs.
PS - next time just write ME TOO!! to identify yourself, and we can fill in the rest.
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