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Story: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Posted by: Evil Wizard (Friday 14 October 2005, 4:09 PM)
Ok first off the analogy that what Cuthbert did is like wiggling door knobs to see if door knobs are open is total crap. A more appropriate analogy would be he was trying to open doors with a lockpick set, which would be a crime... Also what most people don't understand is the attack itself. By typing a bunch of ../../../'s after the URL he was not trying to simply open up another web page. He was trying to drill down into a root directory where he would have more priveleges to get to other parts of the website that were unauthorized. If you really don't know about a subject then don't make definitive statements. Ask question instead!
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Story: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
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Wow. Getting responses from ports on a network com... richard -
if there is a building and the front door is... spacelab10000 -
No, it's like walking around trying everyone'... Anonymous
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"The only reason he did this is because he thought... Anonymous
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The first person talks about connecting on co... Evil Wizard
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As a programmer (not just another web surfer) I wo... Anonymous
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I'm sorry if we offended the programmer -- wh... Matt Loney
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He claims he was scared that the site was a phishi... Anonymous
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If you'd like to tell the judge what you think of... Anonymous
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Go to any security professional and they shou... Anonymous
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Read the UK law, did he attempt to penet... Anonymous -
I understand that what he did broke... Anonymous
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Going totally against the flow... John Airey
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Ok first off the analogy that... Evil Wizard -
Evil Wizard, what you say is t... John Airey
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John I dont believe in this ca... Evil Wizard
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Evil Wizard, if you can't beli... John Airey
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There is an obvious breach of the Computer Misuse... Alex Pinheiro
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Well if this is now a crime, then come get me righ... Anonymous
