Companies switching from defense to offense

[hellow533]

Well who knows. It's not like they can turn around and have a bot DDoS their system. Like the dude said, it could be aimed at trying to identify the attackers. But with that, I don't know how well that'd work depending on the attacker's security measures. But either way, I like it.

I dunno, if the attacker was an idiot and made no attempts to use a proxy, and or hid there I.P. in any way shape or form, I'd love to see an automated-rehacking-bot.

A proxy is hardly all you need to be anonymous these days.

[centip3de]

A proxy is hardly all you need to be anonymous these days.

Well, of course. However, I honestly didn't feel like writing disabling JavaScript, using HTTPS, disabling cookies, etc. Rather, I assumed people would get the gist of all of that from me saying 'using a proxy'. My point still remains, though; if 'hackers' don't take the steps to be secure and anonymous with their attacks, then I think it would be pretty interesting to have an automated re-hacker.

[cyberdrain]

That is like saying you deserve to be robbed when you don't lock the front door. It's the principle most hackers work by, I agree, but does that make it right? Also, it'll mean that those who just don't know will be caught, just like natural selection. Only the best (or lucky) survive Whether that's good or not is debatable.

[centip3de]

That is like saying you deserve to be robbed when you don't lock the front door. It's the principle most hackers work by, I agree, but does that make it right? Also, it'll mean that those who just don't know will be caught, just like natural selection. Only the best (or lucky) survive Whether that's good or not is debatable.

You do deserve to be robbed when you don't lock the front door, that's why you have a lock. If you don't want to take the risk, don't have a house. It's the same thing with a computer; if you're just being stupid and hacking into things without protection against yourself, you should get busted/counter-hacked. If you don't like the risk of that, then don't hack things. Simple as that.

[tremor77]

You do deserve to be robbed when you don't lock the front door, that's why you have a lock. If you don't want to take the risk, don't have a house. It's the same thing with a computer; if you're just being stupid and hacking into things without protection against yourself, you should get busted/counter-hacked. If you don't like the risk of that, then don't hack things. Simple as that.

Absolutely - and you should also be aware of who your hacking.. who's to say you might try to lazy hack on a daytime sysadmin (for example - me) at my job.. or on my minecraft server.. whatever.. I save your data and on a rainy day when I'm feeling angsty - I ragefuck your face.

[centip3de]

ragefuck your face.

Since when is this a bad thing?

[cyberdrain]

Since when is this a bad thing?

I think that's more than I wanted to know what you do in your free time centip3de

On topic: So not only is it right for hackers to get hacked back, but by that same definition it's also right for hackers to hack anything that isn't very well defended. I don't think that'll hold up in court, but still an interesting premise

"So why did you shut down the whole of the country's railroad system?"
- "Because I can, they should've been more careful when they built the system."

I know, not likely and maybe even impossible, it being different subsystems and all. Anyway, you've convinced me.

[hellow533]

Since when is this a bad thing?

I think that's more than I wanted to know what you do in your free time centip3de

On topic: So not only is it right for hackers to get hacked back, but by that same definition it's also right for hackers to hack anything that isn't very well defended. I don't think that'll hold up in court, but still an interesting premise

"So why did you shut down the whole of the country's railroad system?"
- "Because I can, they should've been more careful when they built the system."

I know, not likely and maybe even impossible, it being different subsystems and all. Anyway, you've convinced me.

"Why did you shoot that innocent man in the chest!?"
"He works in pet-co, he should have been wearing a vest!"



No srs, but I get what you are saying. Why hack if you don't know how to cover your steps? And to the guy who wants to ragefuck my face, bring it. Just make sure before that happens you bite the pillow, because I'm going in dry.