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I think you're missing the point. They aren't saying the page was hacked because nothing bad happened, the site was supposed to 'determine reactions'... the hackers were saying that this couldn't be done just by showing a hit stats summary. The hackers had there own reaction. I think its relevant.

im not saying the hack efforts on the site aren't a "reaction" of some kind. i just disagree with them hacking the thing at all. otherwise, how long is it before script kiddies are using the "hacking as a reaction to something" argument? the guy who made the site was pretty clear that he didnt want any hack attempts...he mentions something to that effect on the page where he spills the real reason for the site. some things are just beyond the line of acceptable, and i cant think of a single valid reason for hacking a webpage, reaction to something or not.

script kiddie where? this was a theplanet box. they're a pretty secure colo provider.

"how long is it before script kiddies are using the "hacking as a reaction to something" argument?"

I know the planet boxes are pretty secure.....but I'm not referencing the Eon8 thing with the above line, I'm saying script kiddies in general...further down the line....will happily jump upon any half-baked excuse as a "valid reason" for hacking a webpage. Pushing the notion that someone hacking the Eon8 site is a "response" to the site is just handing them a great excuse. I mean..okay, hacking the site is a valid response, because the Eon8 guy *wanted* responses, no matter what those responses might be? Well how about i go shoot someone because the site made me so mad, and i really, really thought terrorists were behind it? and call that my "response" to the site? Either way, i'd be going down. And anyone that hacked that page should go down too. Of all the perfectly legal responses they could have made, they chose to make an illegal one instead. theres no excuse for that.

If I thought that eon8 could have been some world domination plot... and I had hacker skills, I would have probably taken a look. They weren't rude. They even gave mike/chris props on the project. I completely agree that skids will jump on any half baked excuse. I don't necesarily think that makes this hack wrong. Playing devils advocate here, what if they found something really bad... and exposed it... and saved the world? the rights and wrongs of vigilanteism are a whole different argument, but I'm not opposed to this hack.

if they thought there was something really, really bad going on, they should have simply turned over all of their data to law enforcement and let them handle it. Considering the site became hugely "in public view" (especially in the build up to the coundown climax), any law enforcement agency worth their salt would've been soundly beaten if they'd missed the equivalent of the "big red button". I'm opposed to people hacking sites for all sorts of reasons - people who hack UA pr0n sites because they think they're doing some good, for starters. when in reality, all they're doing is destroying evidence that could've been used in court to bring people to real justice, as opposed ten minutes of having been hacked. I note the hackers said:

"the possibility ofthis being linked to something bigger and far more evil" was compelling".

if thats the case, why did they wait till *after* the countdown finished before deciding to go hack the site? seems like rotten eggs to me, laced in with a fairly lame "hey, it was great though" closing message.

the hack was up minutes after the site was back online
i bet the actual hack took hours and hours.

....why has this been buried? it got pulled from the security section, yet when it went, i had diggspy open and nobody had voted for it to be canned :/

Chris rossi is claiming on his blog that he has no idea about eon8. That its 'not even hosted on one of his ip's'
chrisrossi.com [67.18.245.242]
-> eon8.com [67.18.245.244]
lcarsdeveloper.com [67.18.245.245]
bluesbrotherscentral.com [67.18.245.246]

They're also all using bbhosts.net private name servers
incredible coincidence.