[NTLUG:Discuss] SRJ servers hacked and destroyed!

[Daniel L. Shipman]

Sorry - I forgot there was a distinction - between the two - hackers &
crackers - these individuals called themselves hackers - my head has been
rather clouded with all of this

Please let me clarify that I was NOT simply venting to this group - if you
look back over the past year you will see that I HAVE been and continue to
be a participating member of this list - I do not simply lurke and wait for
the opportunity to vent frustration

The reason I submitted my story to the group is that I believe this is a
valuable discussion point - all members should become security experts - I
am looking for help not a flame war



----- Original Message -----
From: al <al_h at technologist.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 12:48 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] SRJ servers hacked and destroyed!


> Daniel wrote:
> >
> > Amazing that you used the word "us" to describe crackers. If you
> DUH!
> "us" as in "us hackers"
>
> > are indeed a cracker can you tell us how one justifies causing
> > havoc in a small business by destroying a system? This has cost me
> > over 14 grand - that's enough to feed a small village with - and
> > all because some punks thought it would be fun to hack into my
> > company.
> >
> > Perhaps hackers perfer to be called crackers - but I perfe - that
> > is to to refer to them as the low life scum criminals that they
> > are - is it actually correct that you perfer to assiciate yourself
> > with these types of individuals who would replace all my customers
> > home pages with kiddi porn?
>
> NO
> it seems "you" are wishing to "assiciate" "us" with them in an
> attempt to give yourself a reachable target for your indignation
>
>
>
>
> all programmers are not crackers
>
>
> all people with matches are not arsonist
>
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