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Donґt Do It
9/22/99
Mike Hudack
Editor-in-Chief
I know at least one person who currently holds root on the main
FBI.gov Web server. Not only has he not defaced FBI.gov -- heґs prevented
others from doing so. No, before you say it, heґs not the FBIґs admin.
Heґs on that system illegally, just like youґd be... He, unlike the script
kiddies of our world, realize just how bad a defacement of FBI.gov would be.
As we speak the FBI Computer Crimes unit is pursuing hackers and crackers
around the world, tracking them down and logging their actions. Thereґs
something of a holy war going on and everyone knows it. Groups like gH and
ULG have been moving from high profile site to high profile site, sowing fear
and doubt as they move. As they keep defacing sites they draw the ire of
the FBI.
As one FBI agent put it, "weґre just waiting for the last straw." What
could that last straw be? Does the FBI Web site sound like a suitable last
straw? It does to me...
A second nationwide roundup of hackers and crackers is exactly what the
community doesnґt need right now. Whether the ones rounded up are gH
(again :-), ULG or the defacers of FBI.gov doesnґt really matter. We just
donґt need it.
"John," as he calls himself, agrees. He says that heґs foiled more than
a dozen defacement attempts on the FBI Web sites -- and he furnished us the logs
to prove it. According to him, the FBI simply canґt control their own Web
servers. And heґll keep protecting their site until they throw him off.
"I donґt like `em either," he explains... But he says they have the power to
tear hackers down -- sometimes building them back up again, sometimes not.
He doesnґt want to see that happen on an even larger scale. |