Massive Attack Launched on the Internet

hearingimpared
hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
edited February 2007 in The Clubhouse
Pretty Interesting.

http://www.comcast.net/news/technology/index.jsp?cat=TECHNOLOGY&fn=/2007/02/06/580433.html&cvqh=itn_hackers
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited February 2007
    I thought the band Massive Attack finally got a website. 004.gif:p

    Interesting stuff. Never understood the point. Just for achievement in the hacker world?
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited February 2007
    There are just some bad people out there who will waste incredible God given talent on bad things.
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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited February 2007
    Very true... amazing amounts of talent to do things like that. It's usually done just for fun and to gain respect with the black hat community, but on that scale it could have other motivs.
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited February 2007
    And most of them are teenagers or younger.
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  • nebborjk
    nebborjk Posts: 425
    edited February 2007
    Demiurge wrote:
    I thought the band Massive Attack finally got a website. 004.gif:p

    Ditto.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,814
    edited February 2007
    Massive Attack has had a nice website for years. Not really the same band when they were putting out Protection and Mezzanine, but I still like the sound. 100th Window really grew on me.

    www.massiveattack.co.uk/start.html
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited February 2007
    Yeah, my first reaction was the same... "massive attack already HAS a website"
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited February 2007
    It's actually a good thing someone is testing the security of the systems like that. If it wasn't done then a lot of the improvements to the system would not be done either.
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited February 2007
    Many of the hackers use things like this as a resume to get a job with the CIA, Norton, McAfee, etc.

    Then there are other who are just plain jerks.
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  • pblanc
    pblanc Posts: 261
    edited February 2007
    Has anyone other than me noticed the effect? Beginning sometime last night, many web sites became VERY slow to access, and some could not be accessed at all. eBay was affected for sure.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited February 2007
    pblanc wrote:
    Has anyone other than me noticed the effect? Beginning sometime last night, many web sites became VERY slow to access, and some could not be accessed at all. eBay was affected for sure.

    Yep I noticed it and was cursing out my new PC but it turns out . . .
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