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RootPrompt.org: Cracked! Part 6: Talking with the Enemy

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 29, 2000

[ Thanks to Noel
for this link. ]

Soon after rebuilding the system I started talking to
someone on IRC that identified themselves as the person that had
cracked our system. He was connecting from the same places that the
cracker had been coming from and seemed to know things that only
the cracker would have known, so I decided to take him at face
value. Over the first couple of weeks we talked about a variety of
subjects. I have selected some of the most interesting bits and
grouped them together to give an idea of the flavor of the
conversations.
It was an interesting window into the mind of
someone living a very different life.”

“He did not say very much about cracking us. Perhaps he was not
sure of how much we knew and was trying to not let anything out. He
did say things like he had cracked us for six months and that we
were a bunch of lamers. He said that he had been aware that we had
noticed him and had just decided not to do anything.”

“…He continually tried to get me to tell him some detail about
how the system had been rebuilt and how it was now set up. I did my
best to avoid discussing the technical details of the system
because I did not want to provide any help when and if he tried to
crack us again. This may have been security through obscurity but I
wanted it to be as hard as I could make it. To secure it as much as
I could and make it harder to find any holes we might have
missed.”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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