Keeping Track of the Bad Guys

Modified 03 September 2005

When I took some Russian classes at Purdue, I was one of the few non-ROTC students in the room. In that same spirit of "know your enemy"....


Classic Hackers


"Hacker" Meetings

Not entirely made up of bad guys in the literal sense, but meetings that bill themselves as "hacker conferences":


Hacker Technology


Software keys, serial numbers, patches

Keys and other bits needed to unlock "warez", pirated copies of Cisco certification exams, etc:


Archives of Hacked Websites


Remember that Trojan Horse construction hasn't changed since ancient Greece — make it look innocent, simultaneously doing the expected thing and some bad thing. When someone tries to get the system administrator to run some program, remember Virgil's Aenid, "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentis," or "I am wary of Greeks, even bearing gifts."


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