Week 6

More Hacker News....

I know I probably shouldn't be so fascinated with hackers,

but now that growing marijuana is pretty much legal

it's one of the last ways that I can think of to be

a potentially ethical outlaw

 

 Too much Robin Hood, Dukes of Hazard and Pirates with a heart of gold as a kid, I guess.

Hackers busted into a NASDAQ confidential corporate communications system and had access to three hundred different companies' information for over a year. No suspects. No motive. Go Hackers.

Original Article

Anonymous, a group of hackers who have acted in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks, mainly through denial of service attacks against corporate websites of companies that have been critical, or introduced sanctions against Wikileaks, got a little more up close and personal last week. A security researcher who claims he can identify Anonymous' members has pretty much had his world turned upside down with up to sixty instances of malicious tampering on everything from his personal emails and photos, to messed up financial accounts to nasty smart phone flares. I like what Wikileaks was doing, but I definitely pity this fool.

Original Article

Brought to you by the folks who really invented the internet, (sorry Al Gore) DARPA recently started a program that encourages, recruits, and pays hackers from all over the world to help strengthen network security. So leave NASDAQ, the Pentagon, and that security researcher alone, get a haircut, and get a job. Just Kidding (please don't mess up my junk).

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