Heh heh. It's a big world, with all sorts of varying degrees of accuracy in media, and many different regimes in the underworld...
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:34:53 -0800 Cory Petkovsek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed, not clicked: | On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:51:19PM +0000, Bob Crandell gave and URL: | >... http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/6880.html | | This sounds pretty silly. Why did these reporters waste our time | writing it up. I hardly call 200 to 40 website defacements "war". | The one site they listed in the article is running iis4 and is the | "premier arabic online music store". Big deal, so lots of sites have | been found running insecure webservers and all of the so called | "attacks" are simply website defacements. Obviously this is a political story, not a technical one. I think they are trying to show a trend, and calling it "warfare" due to the alleged pattern of, roughly speaking, who's hacking who. | One of the cracker groups says, "One man can destroy a whole company | with one click." Again, I hardly call a website defacement destroying | a company. And real hackers don't click. Well, you said it yourself. Cracker, not hacker -- crackers *do* click = ) And in reality, there are lots of 'hackers' who certainly click. regards, Ben _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
