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Don´t 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 -- he´s prevented others from doing so. No, before you say it, he´s not the FBI´s admin. He´s on that system illegally, just like you´d 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. There´s 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, "we´re 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 doesn´t need right now. Whether the ones rounded up are gH (again :-), ULG or the defacers of FBI.gov doesn´t really matter. We just don´t need it.
"John," as he calls himself, agrees. He says that he´s 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 can´t control their own Web servers. And he´ll keep protecting their site until they throw him off.
"I don´t 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 doesn´t want to see that happen on an even larger scale. |
