Wow
Uhh ... how do these sorts of people manage to get a job or any funding for a company? Sounds utterly bonkers - and not in the harmless-but-brilliant eccentric kind of way.
'World's No. 1 hacker' tome rocks security world
A recently published e-book penned by the self-proclaimed “world's No. 1 hacker” is rocking the security community with back-and-forth allegations of plagiarism, racism, and even threats against a security podcaster and his family. How to Become the World's No. 1 Hacker is purportedly written by Gregory D. Evans, an animated …
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Wednesday 23rd June 2010 09:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Just buy a company from a lawyer
The details might vary, but it's pretty trivial to buy a company that's just an empty shell, set up in bulk by some law company. Details depend on where you are. It used to be easier.
Keeping the company legal (accountancy rules and such) is likely a bigger bill. It can avoid tax liability, but is it worth the costs?
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Wednesday 23rd June 2010 01:51 GMT Andy Shaw
I thought I recognised the name
...and not for any particularly good reason - Gregory D. Evans currently has pride-of-place at the top of attrition.org's charlatans list (http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/gregory_evans/) and has been there for a while. The various claims compiled there make for interesting reading - basically, the guy appears to have serious truth issues.
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Wednesday 23rd June 2010 09:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
And I thought Mitnick was fake...
Turns out this guy trumps Mitnick in ``m4d h4xx0r 5k1llz'', hands down. Now you know what the word really means, nowadays.
Not too surprising. First, the media got hold of it, by lapping up the drivel spouted by pimply faced scriptkiddies, and it started to get a fake life all of its own, fueling the ``IT security industry''. They desperately tried to give themselves a modicum of respectability, how else are you going to get paid, and gave everyone free hats. Now, well, the k1dd13s start to come home from prison. Way to grow up folks.
How was this possible? Easy. The media will give you any tag you claim for yourself. Had they done their homework, they'd've known that originally you didn't claim, but were always given, the moniker. Much like Kentucky Colonel, only less formal. How did we lose it? Much like the general email using populace lost the way to write coherent, readable emails. Washed away in the deluge starting this september.
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Wednesday 23rd June 2010 09:03 GMT Flybert
Googles for a penny or less ?!?!
"“You could have bought Googles years ago. Just imagine if you bought Googles at a penny or less than a penny how trillionaire you'd be today. I'm trying to give you that same vision."
1. GOOG IPO was at $85 per share .. was it not ?
2.The market value of Exxon-Mobil, Apple and Walmart COMBINED isn't a Trillion USD ..
Imagine though, what a laugh the book would have been if this guy HAD written it ;-)
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Wednesday 23rd June 2010 09:13 GMT Thomas 4
Humm....
From the descriptions, he sounds like a script kiddy overdosing on his own ego and undeserved media attention.
I admit my knowledge of hacking is pretty much non-existant but I always thought the number one ethos about hacking was discretion and going unnoticed. The only way this chap could be more obvious is by painting his member fluroescent yellow, waving it around and uploading a video of it when he hacks a site.
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Wednesday 23rd June 2010 17:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
Typo alert
From TFPDF :
" Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analy-
sis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Originally named
Wireshark, in May 2006 the project was renamed Wireshark due to trademark issues."
Wasn't this packet sniffer originally named Ethereal ?
P.
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Thursday 24th June 2010 08:15 GMT Andy Enderby 1
yeah but.....
..... but, don;t you just know that in the UK at least, your boss will make this the only "tech" doc he reads this year and will therefore use it as the basis of all his security decisions,...... This chuckwit has made a handsome profit, and although his ringpiece may well have been enlarged whilst detained, he's as we speak or read this, doing rather better than we are.
Enormously depressing aint it when arseholes like this start dictating policy, and you know he will.....
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