The Jester

[Benton]

(10-24-2016, 10:58 AM)Au165 Wrote: Always interesting people fall back to "12 year old, in their moms basement" when talking about hackers. It is a relic of a time when computer use was still kind of underground in general, but almost all of us today would be that "Guy in their moms basement" based on our usage if we were doing it 15 years ago. Obviously, it was probably a joke but one of those things that still kind of annoy me as it is a kind of self defense method for something most people don't understand.

The reality is most the "hacking" we see, and like what we saw Friday, are DOS attacks (denial of service). It's not hacking, it is basically attempting to access a server repeatedly in large quantities causing the server to crash. What made the one Friday different is that they appear to have slaved large amounts of network connected devices to carry out the attack, this did require some skill which is why some think it was state sponsored.

What the guy did in turn would be considered hacking as he forced unauthorized entry into a system. The method though is rather elementary and won't really do much other than get the web developer fired (or in Russia maybe shot).

To be fair, I was picturing him in his dad's condo.