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• Regardless of who gets hacked, nobody will ever be 100% secure. The fact remains that technology is always changing, closing old security holes only to open new ones that diligent crackers will find and exploit.
  
  For all of you guys who would like a little education into IT Security and insight into how the minds of black-hat hackers work, I recommend you get a copy of Hacking for Dummies...

  April 7, 2009

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• Or not.
  
  Forget for a minute that defacing a website is pretty juvenile, being able to go onto Enet and say "I defaced the great Kevin Mitnick's website. He's supposed to be this security expert and I got through" could get script kiddies a decent amount of notoriety... Especially if they got in through a hole in another website's security...

  April 7, 2009

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• I'm with aabcdefghij987654321 on this I'm afraid...
  Although I don't know anything about n3td3v, his post does sound more to me like a pointless rant from a jealous under-achiever... The kind of thing Robin would say to Batman (if you'll excuse the analogy).
  n3td3v, you seem to be missing a crucial point, and I recommend you go back and read the article again.
  
  Kevin said "When you're with Web hosting companies, your security is as good as theirs. You just have to live with that," and then followed on saying "They do a good job. I don't think they're insecure,"
  
  Even professionals in the area of IT security like him have standards as to what they believe "secure" to be. And if he believes that the box where his site is hosted is secure then (even if it isn't) is his issue to worry about. As for his so-called fame, name one other hacker that is as well known as him, or got given a worse sentence when they got caught. I know of only one, but the name escapes me right now.
  
  If, at the moment, you're thinking that being well known isn't the point, I have to say I agree with you, but think about that cracker that's going to break into the Pentagon's systems one day, who is he going to tell? He'll sit for the remainder of his life keeping that secret to himself because a) he'd be a fool to tell anyone, and b) if he is stupid enough to tell someone, they'll never believe him.
  
  Kevin Mitnick was arrested by the FBI and sentenced to 5 years in prison. He can go out and (should he choose to) tell the world "look at me, check what I did... I am the ****!!" and everyone's going to believe him for the simple fact that he got arrested for it. Stealth is all well and good, but at the end of the day, what indeed, is the point?

  April 7, 2009

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