BATR websites attacked by Cliff Jones, Bureau Editor
Portions of the parent web site which hosts this news bureau have been "cracked." Whether related in any way with previous reported death threats received by site owner "SARTRE" (James Hall) is being investigated.
"Hacking" is perfectly legal. It involves only accessing and viewing content on another's computer remotely. The law has held that it's no matter that particular private content was never intended to be publicly accessible, it's fair game for anyone to access and view if they are able, even if extraordinary measures had to be taken to gain access. Security is entirely the responsibility of the owner of the content.
But "Cracking" is a crime. It means one has "touched" the owner's computer code and altered it against the owner's will, which amounts to damage to the property represented by the code. Usually in such instances, further damages to owners arise, from lost revenue to denial of the services they normally provide, by this disruption or outright destruction of web site functionalities.
A hacker does not alter a single digit of anyone's content they've accessed. A cracker does, that's the only difference.
Certain of the Breaking All The Rules web sites were cracked somewhere in the vicinity of 10:50 PM EST Wednesday. Intended content was replaced with a banner linking to this forum: http://www.g00ns-forum.net/ Portions of this forum were also visible on the BATR sites.
The attack left information stating that an entity calling itself "Noob" was responsible for the attack. "Noob" does not appear in listings of membership at the above web forum. One having "admin" in an email address at the above forum has been contacted for comment.
BATR's hosting and web mastering personnel have been asked to provide investigators certain information which may be useful in determining both the cause and origin of the attack. Investigators say it would be very difficult to determine which actual human being launched the attack, though the vicinity of the hardware used should be ascertainable, depending on content of the web hosting service's logs.
Two separate "g00ns" sites mentioned by malicious code left in the wake of the attack are apparently hosted in Argentina and California, though it is doubtful these are responsible for the attack.
Meanwhile, "SARTRE" rightly wonders if this is even remotely related to recent telephonic death threat he'd received.
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Original Investigative Journalism from the
Columnist Guild News Bureau
"Hacking" is perfectly legal. It involves only accessing and viewing content on another's computer remotely. The law has held that it's no matter that particular private content was never intended to be publicly accessible, it's fair game for anyone to access and view if they are able, even if extraordinary measures had to be taken to gain access. Security is entirely the responsibility of the owner of the content.
But "Cracking" is a crime. It means one has "touched" the owner's computer code and altered it against the owner's will, which amounts to damage to the property represented by the code. Usually in such instances, further damages to owners arise, from lost revenue to denial of the services they normally provide, by this disruption or outright destruction of web site functionalities.
A hacker does not alter a single digit of anyone's content they've accessed. A cracker does, that's the only difference.
Certain of the Breaking All The Rules web sites were cracked somewhere in the vicinity of 10:50 PM EST Wednesday. Intended content was replaced with a banner linking to this forum: http://www.g00ns-forum.net/ Portions of this forum were also visible on the BATR sites.
The attack left information stating that an entity calling itself "Noob" was responsible for the attack. "Noob" does not appear in listings of membership at the above web forum. One having "admin" in an email address at the above forum has been contacted for comment.
BATR's hosting and web mastering personnel have been asked to provide investigators certain information which may be useful in determining both the cause and origin of the attack. Investigators say it would be very difficult to determine which actual human being launched the attack, though the vicinity of the hardware used should be ascertainable, depending on content of the web hosting service's logs.
Two separate "g00ns" sites mentioned by malicious code left in the wake of the attack are apparently hosted in Argentina and California, though it is doubtful these are responsible for the attack.
Meanwhile, "SARTRE" rightly wonders if this is even remotely related to recent telephonic death threat he'd received.
Original Investigative Journalism from the
Columnist Guild News Bureau
3 Comments:
Teenage kids play the internet linked game, "Age of Empires" Noticed that they sometimes refer to each othjer, as "Noobs"
Meaning being a knob who is new to the game.
Just a thought.
By Rabbitvoz, at 10:19 PM
If the above are your defenitions of "hack" and "crack" than it is virtually impossible to "hack" because there are such things as logs which record your activity. So, you DO modify digits even if you are just looking.
By Anonymous, at 1:24 PM
Typical. I too have been having hacking problems. They knocked me off line and installed a keyboard logger on my CPU. It took me weeks to get back online and I still dont know if Im clear. I doubt I am. What a messed up country we live in. YOu would think these fools collecting paychecks doing this for their master Bush wouldve gotten a clue as to how evil their bosses are...
By Anonymous, at 3:01 PM
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