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- Alphabet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60the longer myspace runs, the better. It keeps myspace users off the rest of the internet.
- skeeto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33...then get busted when you go to check it.
What a couple of dimwits. - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30"...the pair threatened to distribute a foolproof method for stealing information unless MySpace paid them $150,000..."
Well... MySpace didn't pay up. Where's the info, hax0rs? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29I think I love you.
- Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24It is all about the off-shore accounts. What a bunch of n00bs. Well, they were from MySpace.
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21You must not have read the last paragraph about the $150,000 going into a pro-pedophile fund.
- Pile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15What information from myspace would really be worthwhile anyway? The actual e-mail address of the weird fat chick who likes to cut herself? Honestly, just what's on most peoples' front page is *too much information* as it is!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19I appaude these teens. They should have brought down MySpace either way.
- firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14wow, I thought this was going to be credible until I saw this:
"Mondelli and Harrison were arrested Friday when they traveled to Los Angeles, allegedly to collect the payoff. Instead, they were taken into custody by undercover officers from the multi- agency Electronic Crimes Task Force, who posed as MySpace employees."
Who the hell would travel to the victim's hq to get something? Intelligently, I'd ask them to send it elsewhere.
This concludes that people who are involved with myspace are complete dimwits. Not I am going to prevent myself from even thinking about that website ever again... - Seidoger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Those "Pay us this or we'll do this" threats always have a low chance of success. Should have been "We do this".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Didn't the *SAME* exact type of thing happen to some other douche that threatened to release code to help spammers spam myspace? Then he got flown out here and arrested or something?
Edit: Yup, http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119758,00.asp&e=14916 - mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Get ready to toss salad boys...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9title should read:
Teen Skr1p7 k1dd33z arrested for attempted myspace extortion. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Why are all you people assuming that they actually hacked in? They're probably just posers.
- DavidDigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9This just goes to show how socially inept some kids can be - they were smart enough to hack into a system, but stupid enough to walk into a trap. This is a striking example of how there really are multiple kinds of intelligence.
- Seidoger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12They would have to die for that..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9wow. what the hell did they expect would happen? i guarantee these 2 will be earning themselves a darwin award very soon as well.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10They're a bunch of criminal noobs. They needed to get some dirt on some insider trading or something to that effect before threatening them with extortion. It would've kept Myspace from going to the cops with it. Jeez, doesn't anybody watch The Supranos?
- DoctorIan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You don't need to die to get a darwin award. If you manage to make yourself infertile (e.g. by exploding your balls) before you procreate then you can get one.
- silverlogic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7they offered their clients a myspace tracker
- leohart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Alphabet. That's exactly what it should be. That's why we have prisons and all of those rehabs. Now only if we can get all those prisoners feel as if they are "the crowd" then we don't even need cops to put them in there.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What kind of servers does myspace have?
- dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3are they the myspaceplus.com guys?
- Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Smart enough to hack into a large network... not smart enough to realize how the real world works.
- merdiesel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ok, now someone learn from their mistakes and try again...
please. - adamtanner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4The problem is they threatened the wrong people.
Don't threaten Myspace executives, that will/did get you thrown in prison.
Just hijack one of the various porn star's Myspaces with 150,000 friends and post a bulletin threatening all the Myspace addicted teens to shut down Myspace unless each one sends you one dollar via PayPal. You don't even have to really know how to shut down Myspace for that to work, those kids will believe anything they see in a bulletin. Especially coming from a half naked girl with glitter graphics.
Adam - jj555298, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3$150,000? Obviously the kids were stupid for threatening a subsidiary of News Corporation but they could have asked for more than a meager 150 grand. They better be careful, Bill O'Reilly didn't send the FOX police this time, they just have to deal with the regular ones.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3then she gets busted instead of you or the cops read your comment and bust you
- lateralus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2OS/2.
- hndgns4hrts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2All this does is shows the IQ of the average MySpace user.
- Magadass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its probably more or less the amateur coding of MySpace rather than the type of server running it. Typically most "hacks" are simply something stupid done by the programmer and not a fault of the web server itself.
- blahlazer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The hackers are going to shake down MySpace with the power of earthquakes. Must be the hackers from the Core.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or.. they were just making up the 'crack'
- toastgodsupreme, on 10/12/2007, -9/+10lol
that's why you get a p.o. box with a fake id, paid for in cash. and have it delivered to there. - crexor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1www.netcraft.com is probably the one you are thinking of. just telnet to the webserver and look at the headers, or get a program like xscan or something that will enumerate it for you.
- jmknapp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just wait for the "Free Shaun" and "Free Saverio" bumper stickers--after all, geekdom has never met a hacker it didn't apologize for, or at least portray as somehow beneath consideration. So we see comments about how "stupid" these "n00bs" are, or how it couldn't have happened to a more deserving target, etc. Maybe they were just exposing flaws in the system, man... wheee.
More directly put, they are simply criminals who will hopefully be thrown in jail for several years to think about the joys of hacking. - firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you still don't believe, me try w3:
http://validator.w3.org/
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&verbose=1
Microsoft IIS/6....great.... - mellotron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they would have saved themselves some grief if they were regular readers of digg...
http://digg.com/security/How_to%3A_Set_Up_an_Offshore_Banking_Account - UberFuzzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@yarn
http://www.grc.com/id/idserve.htm - vendetta07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0props for hackin myspace i guess, but just leave them to themselves they are at least isolated for now lol
- SIDSI, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Those two teenagers were almost my heroes, damn that money if they only just destroyed that damn web site for the thrill of destroying it.
- tanith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL - I can't help remembering the #bantown LiveJournal hacking at the beginning of the year, where they posted their demand for the resignation of the abuse team on hundreds of hacked journals, forcing LJ to change its code. Since the security flaw had been known for over a year, I couldn't have much sympathy with LJ on that one. (http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/01/account_hijacki.html)
- mchase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Didn't the same thing happen a few months ago but with just one person that time? Is it just me or should MySpace worry more about fixing the holes that 'hackers' try to 'extort' them with every month and a half than rather than going after the morons that are doing it?
- fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Damn videogames look what they have done to our children!!
- ThorbjorgX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's absolutely amazing. It's sort of about time that something hit MySpace, but I like how it isolates irresponsible, attention-seeking nitwits from hoarding the rest of the internet. As long as the $150,000 doesn't come out of tax dollars, more power to the hackers!
- cecplex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Story ain't right...
http://digg.com/security/Myspace_hackers._Not_hackers_ - stranflow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1you might be on to something. *copy paypayl image* *paste* et voila.
- firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3windows if you haven't figured out already...
- Lilbrittle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0hahaha So true but been their done that :)
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