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- tony134340, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20I think being grateful to a hacker is like being grateful to someone who finds a way inside your home when you're gone and doesn't steal anything. Of course you know your house is vulnerable in some way as your PC is and if you don't know it, you're either ignorant or lying to yourself. There's no such thing as totally secure in anything.
The hacker could've stated he was running a vulnerable plugin instead of actually hacking him. I used to delve in hacking and glorify it, but since then, I've sort of grown up. Now digg me down, scriptkiddies. - bmilleare, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I think this is a bit misleading TBH.
pokerforums.org is not a "poker site", you don't play poker on it. Read before you digg, ppl. - GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Bit of a misleading article there (on digg? Surely not?) - it implies it was an actual gambling site that was hit, but in fact it was just a vBulletin forum that happens to be about poker.
- plasticated, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10http://tylercruz.com/flash.html
That Tyler guy is an utter tool. - hobbsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8bury this spam
- wokethebears, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8inaccurate. there is no poker site in this story. its actually called a website
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Buried as the SPAM that it is.
- bmilleare, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Yeah it's 100% been submitted by the owner, look at the history then look at the sites he lists he owns on his blog.
SPAM. - floodyberry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It looks like AmishFBI is probably a shill account for this Tyler guy. I was looking forward to an interesting read ala Steve Gibson and instead get dopey the seo spammer forgetting to delete an install script.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The guy must have h4x0red this article onto the frontpage, if all the people digging this had read the article there would be no way this could have made the fp cuz people would know the title is misleading and the post sucks in general. Nothing to see here, move along.
- dwight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow, what a hurtbag this kid is. Even posting fake comments saying "thanks for telling us what you are up to." Come on, you aren't fooling anyone.
Buried spam. - washcapsfan37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3While the article being submitted to Digg was probably under the false pretense of self-promoting his site, his ordeal (real or faked, as some suggest above) does contain a real message. There are probably tons of sites out there running older vulnerable software or still configured with various scripts that could gives unauthorized people access. Just because you can set up a website doesn't mean you know how. Maybe people reading this who run legitimate sites out there will pause and consider just how safe there site is. Are there adequate backup and recovery procedures? Have I upgraded to the most secure version of my software? Is my site configured securely to provide as little infomation to hackers as possible?
Not every hacker will be so nice. - biffta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He had $20,000 to spend on a car and he bought that piece of *****?
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"It looks like AmishFBI is probably a shill account for this Tyler guy."
Yes, clearly looks like it. He mostly submit stories from his site and johnchow, which is listed as his "friend or family" there. And he often starts stories covering his own site with something like "Web Entrepreneur Tyler Cruz is..." in the submits to create notability by putting focus on himself. He once also posted a story for movie-vault when he had interviews a guy there.
It's really transparent, and I wouldn't care much, if he just didn't try to cover this up by always talking in third person -- that's just annoying. - izzybomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Considering his mentioning that his screen is always taken up by IMs with people just begging to talk to him, he does in fact seem to be a tool.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Comparing "computer stuff" to psychical crimes isn't accurate. Besides, would you prefer if someone told you "Oh, you left your keys on a busy street in town", or "Here are your keys, you must have dropped them in town" - By taking your keys, they have prevented someone more malicious taking the keys and using them to break in to your house.
Sure, them breaking in to your house, stealing your stuff and then telling you "Oh, you left your keys lying around in town" is probably more "accurate" a comparison (to having your website hacked), but, if someone breaks into your house and takes your stuff, it costs far more money, you can't "backup" your homes content, and people are nearly always more emotionally/setimetaly-attached to their possessions - A home and a website are *not* the same.
"The hacker could've stated he was running a vulnerable plugin instead of actually hacking him" - In theory, that's all well and good, but people don't listen to some random email as much as they do their site's (Or forum in this case) index page being replaced. Besides, if a site is running vulnerable software, removing the index page will stop any more "script-kiddie"ish attacks - Which goes somewhat to preventing "a more malicious hacker gets in and [doing] some real damage". I'd say it's the first thing you should do should a site be comprimised (Remove all access to the site until you have it back up and patched)
Anyway, it seems like the writer-person handled it well, a lot of people completely over-react to these sorts of situations..
- Ben - Psicosis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Was expecting to read about some little known poker site getting hacked and it turns out that it's a little known poker web forum instead. Lame.
- jongens, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3he does appear to be a bit of a tool. that being said, he's one of those annoying types that sits at home receiving massive adsense cheques every month. those are the worst kinds of tools.
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4yeah, ok Lisa.
spam on spam - 4hero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2he probably hacked his site himself
buried - Qwiggalo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Is every user on Digg so extremely harsh? You should check out some of the comments on your Digg post.."
lolinternet - Rincey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdMN70w6J4I&eurl=
I think this sums him up because it is he.. and yes indeed he is a very big tool - pokerboy323, on 03/12/2009, -0/+1geez I can't believe this story got almost 300 diggs
http://onlinepokeradvantage.com - Rincey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.thetylerproject.com/
Oh god comedy gold he so far has made 50$! lolol - larfus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This about sums it up..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTYaThxvfbA
- killerbunnie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While everything you said is true, there is a difference between knowing _that_ your house/PC/whatever is insecure and _how_ it is insecure. If you know how, you can at least take some proactive action. That's where the white hat hacker comes in. Otherwise, you're stuck with cleaning up after an incident instead of preventing it.
Remember, if you maintain servers on the internet, you _will_ be scanned and someone _will_ try to hack you. Would you rather be done by a friend or foe? - JaneMay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's strange. I was linked to John Chow's site about 2 or 3 hours ago and to my dismay, it didn't show up. What showed up instead was a black screen with Death riding on a horse. Apparently, the hacker was Turkish and sent a nasty anti-bush message that I don't care to repeat. Anyone else see this?
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Meh, I dugg it without reading and then came back 2 hours later and read it, it's a good read and so i've left my digg.
- cwcsc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0No I dont see it but you may see it here. http://www.WorldSeriesFreeroll.net
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1And there you have it.
- AmishFBI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That was my girlfriend. I scolded her for doing that afterwards, heh.
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3And if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass when it hopped.
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1agreed. spam.
- jues, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1fairplay...
- Retuow, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4If hackers are animals, this one is a squirrel:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/NoNeed/images.jpg - jues, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4ditto, security horror story's are always a good read. Just hope that it's not me posting one any time soon :|
- eliburford, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7I think it would be good for this to get on the front page of digg, so it will show a lot of people to be more careful :)
It was quite an interesting read, I dugg it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2sellout.
- Lisa2007, on 10/12/2007, -27/+1Thanks for the update Tyler. It is always a pleasure to read what you are up to.
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