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- jambarama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Thanks to the slasdotter who exposed him! Thats something you'll only find on /. the community is brilliant. That is also the reason digg will never put /. out of business, the community and the comment system.
Now I love digg for news, but it is worthless for comments. - netmancer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm glad his botnet operating days are numbered, but when will these people learn to keep their damn mouths shut? Holy christ, how hard can it be? You see (h/cr)ackers getting busted for talking about their activities, kids on my space getting busted for their posts, etc. Maybe it's just me, but I'm amazed at the stupidity. Rule #1. If you do something wrong/illegal/stupid, keep your mouth shut. Rule #2. Stop doing ***** that is wrong/illegal/stupid. Rule #3. Under absolutely no circumstance trust a reporter. Rule #4. Stop doing ***** that is wrong/illegal/stupid. But hey, that's one less botnet we'll have to worry about. :-)
- theantidote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Already dugg....
Try here: http://fishbowl.pastiche.org.nyud.net:8080/2006/02/19/the_perils_of_metadata - theantidote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn that sucks. I guess The Washington Post uses the metadata to archive their stories in some sort of searchable database.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Roland Police Department
(918) 427-3252 - eismcsquare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2>>Stop bitching I would kill for a E20D. I'm stuck with an D-535.
True, but then there is Rebel XT too - a bit cheap, but worth it.
>>Oh and who else thinks digg's comments need a parent/child thing like /.?
ME!! - crazyclones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what an idiot for getting interviewed and trusting the post. I guess he never heard of watergate.
- szelij, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The guy should sue the post, but he runs a botnet, too bad for him.
- theantidote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"what an idiot for getting interviewed and trusting the post. I guess he never heard of watergate."
Huh? So you're saying the Post leaked the source of their info about the Watergate scandal? It was one of Washington's best kept secrets, unknown by even the FBI and CIA, until "Deep Throat" himself revealed himself last year. Please think before commenting because your comment makes no sense. - drewcurtis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...Besides, as every professional knows, it's all about the lenses....
well, as a pro photog, i can assure that the lens does play a large role, but the skill of the shooter, and his/her proficiency in post processing is of equal, if not greater importance. - shane1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i am reminded of a segment on zdtv a few years ago where someone called into there webcam/call for help type show and was bragging about bootlegged video cards wearing a college sweater....they asked all types of questions about his college and such and he was just so Happy to be on tv he was oblivious to what was going on...looks like 0x80 just liked the attention so he got what he had coming to him , she shouldn't have been such an attention whore
- phireph0x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1two words: white. trash.
this, my friends, is *the* textbook definition of a script kiddie. - t0ny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"am i the only who wondered why a profession media photog is stuck using a 20d?".
Stop bitching I would kill for a E20D. I'm stuck with an D-535.
Oh and who else thinks digg's comments need a parent/child thing like /.? - shaft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this reminds me of that russian spammer who was brutally beaten to death in his appartment and the police didn't investigate the murder.
http://www.mosnews.com/commentary/2005/07/26/spamassassin.shtml - ,,|,_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hopefully some nice inmate will drop $800 worth of cigarettes for a couple of minutes alone with him in the Federal pound-you-in-the-ass VIP room...
- xile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Criminal and civil matters are independent. He has plenty of grounds to sue, even if he is a criminal.
Although, if he files a suit, the records are public and law enforcement could read these public records, then identify and arrest him. Furthermore, he'd have to prove in the suit that the publication occured without his consent (I'm guessing he asked them to not show his face, but didn't think of asking to mask his hometown) and that he suffered damages directly from the publication. - Drizzit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I've modified my wordpress blog to pull coralcache after a story is posted just in case of a digg effect. In fact I'm working on dynamic traffic control when if a page were to become too popular it would change to a redirect to the coralcache version.
- member57, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hope men with dark sunglasses and a full tactical team shows up at his (parents)house with MP5's, stun grenades. Throw his sorry excuse for a body face down on the hard OK dirt with multiple MP5's pressing very hardly against the back of his neck while they put zip-tie handcuffs on him. I hate a-holes like this oxygen thief. I hate them even though they give me business from their poorly written hacks.
- Snarfalunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another digg panic induced leap to the wrong conclusion
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/02/botnets_a_global_pandemic.html
"funny is that that is way off from where i reside apprently from what i gathered from brian kreps was it was old metadata so im still safe. haha i guess luck is on my side :)
Posted by: 0x80 - bitweever, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Script kiddie gets p0wned!
- jdavid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0maybe a comment filter too
- carlfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What's _really_ distressing about all this is how badly I've obviously configured Apache. Crashed serving only static pages after less than an hour of being in digg? That's just lame.
- cheerio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The feds probably didnt care about him UNTILL now. NEVER boast about anything you do illegall. If you are a criminal you must remember, there are 50,000 other idioits out there at any given time doing exactly what your doing. Why target yourself. And now that its made news, and youve boasted about what youve done, you WILL get the book thrown at you. There is some guy in a office of the FBI right now getting bitched about how this post just made them look like a failure. Criminals in the eyes of the media always get ***** the worse. Your days are numbered, you will be hunted down, eventually. Oh yea, and you think the media can use their constitutional rights to protect your idenity? Think again, with the Bush Administration behaving they way they have been lately, i just dont see them having the power to even stand their grounds. Im not going to talk mad ***** about you hacking, because without people like you, there would be no 100K+ a year security jobs out there. So do what you do, just be smart about it.
- mattgilberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+00x80 is making money the only way he knows how. Hes a high school dropout who would be working at burger king if it wasn't for his bots. How about all the people in here who keep using "l33t" talk and and who keep saying he got "pwned", shut up. He is taking advantage of exploitable, unprotected machines and using them to make money. Those who do get infected by his bots should have had firewalls/anti-virus set up in the first place and deserve to be infected if they aren't securing themselves properly. Granted, what he is doing is certainly wrong he should be stopped, but if he is to be caught because of some dumb IPTC tag then it looks like Flickr and the NSA just became butt-buddies. Also, with the tools that the NSA has that we know of and don't know of, he probably would have been caught by now and his arrest would have been publicized by now.
- Simply, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have no pity in the least for Mr. 0x80.
- theartofennui, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ouch... good basis for a lawsuit
- akinder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ooohh definitely sucks to be him :)
I think a phone call to the authorities in Roland is warranted, they need to kick his door in and haul his ass off to jail. - Moose_Head, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know who the best hacker ever was? You know that guy who pulled off that job that netted himself millions of dollars?
Either do I. - LucasOman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I hope someone breaks into his home and beats him with a baseball bat. His parents should probably be culled from the herd, also, to prevent any further procreation.
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The standard Windows Properties dialog doesn't show the image description (which has the info in question), but Foxbat's ExifView, http://members.cox.net/foxbat121/exifview.html , does.
--and to think that I usually just GLANCE at images on a news page, instead of saving them to disk and checking them (is it the home city of the hacker or the photog?). - theantidote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone check for the old crop thumbnail too?
- pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's why you don't agree to interview w/ somebody ........ what an idiot
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"(is it the home city of the hacker or the photog?)"
Nevermind, it says LOCATION in LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS, so the place it was taken. - loikll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DiggDug - This has GOT to make the podcast. Dude is screwed. Way to go Post. Let that be a lesson when the WaPo comes calling. Just like that Simpson's episode where the janitor walks into the darkened room and flicks on the light during the live concealed-identity interview.
Of course the lil bastard deserves it, he makes more money than me. - Matt2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> Yeah, I must agree that he could sue the Post if this gets him in trouble.
On what grounds would he be able to sue? That's insane, he's the criminal, not the reporter.
I hope he goes to jail. People like him cause untold amounts of grief for the rest of the Internet's server and network operators. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice. In the end, if you're doing something wrong for the money you ain't really all that smart to begin with. Desperate, maybe (for the money and strippers). Smart? No.
- SatansMagicHat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0owned
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's karma for you.
/Steve, write us another karma poem! - fornulf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heh. Karma's a bitch.
Digg++ - LCmidas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dude, he couldn't sue. he's engaging in an illegal activity, so any contracts he may have signed with wa-po aren't worth the paper they're printed on. for two or more parties to contract, the act they agree to perform has to be legal. keeping your mouth shut about who's commiting a felony...doesn't qualify. he has no grounds to sue.
- mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Excuse me while I laugh. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ok, got that out of my system. Yeah, I must agree that he could sue the Post if this gets him in trouble. And like someone else was saying, you should keep your mouth shut if you're doing something illegal.. - shaft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this reminds me of that russian spammer who was brutally beaten to death in his appartment and the police didn't investigate the murder.
http://www.mosnews.com/commentary/2005/07/26/spamassassin.shtml - carlfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@spafbnerf
...followed quickly by "it becomes impossible for that particular media outlet -- and temporarily much harder for _any_ media outlet -- to find anonymous sources."
The tradition of the media protecting sources, and in some jurisdictions the legally enshrined right to do so, is a pretty important one. While its most defensible use is to protect whistle-blowers and give people involved in civil disobedience a voice, it is also an important journalistic function to examine all of society, even its criminal underside. And you can't do that effectively if nobody dares talk to you. - jbus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BUSTED!!! Haha!
Oh I forgot... The Bush Admin (DOJ, FBI, DHS etc...) doesn't read the Washington Post because it's just another "liberal" Newspaper, So maybe this guy has nothing to worry about. - cheerio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I guess the next digg story will actually be on how digg/slashdot users cracked the botnet master investigation. hah
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol
I saw this on Slashdot yesterday, and I saw the post where somebody pointed out the metadata in the photo was available, and then reposted it. A few people then located a probable location from other things in hte story. Nice. I hope they arrest this guy. - madeingermany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sure this guy is pretty busy right now... formatting hard drives with a magnet or something or packing his things for a trip to mexico .... ;)
- spafbnerf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0story i'd like to see:
botnet-running hacker agrees to talk to the media; media comes to his house WITH THE FBI- hacker is totally pwn3d by his own stupidity!... - sessone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0when i read this over the weekend i told the wife that this kid would have his door kicked down within a month...even without the metadata in the photo, he gave up enough information about where he was from, and let pictures be taken of him...you just dont allow yourself to be interviewed in a feature article for the washpost and snub your nose at the FBI and NSA...they dont take too kindly to that...
- dankers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Smart /. user put the two pictures together; one of the side of his face and one of his chin.
http://www.chriscanfield.net/Offsite/botnet.jpg
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177830&threshold=1&commentsort=3&mode=thread&pid=14750403#14751940
I smell a big Internet revenge drama about to unfold on the Internet. -
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