By Andy McCue
Published: Friday 24 October 2003
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Name
Anonymous
Location
London
Occupation
Trader/Analyst
Comment
Unfortunately the bit in part one is spot on and quite plausible.
Scripts, bots and such are commonplace tools of battle amongst anxiety-prone IRC chatroom users, and remote 'take-over' of ones PC can and has happened.
Think of an IRC chatroom as being akin to your old school playground, with all the various 'character' types from bullies to extroverts and you get the idea.
These chatrooms simply attract more Napoleonic complex sufferers than anyplace else one would travel to in real life ...
They are right on the money. Scenarious such as th...
Anonymous
Unfortunately the bit in part one is spot on and q...
Anonymous
It is sad that society's perception of "hackers" h...
Anonymous
The script-kiddie phenomenon is increasingly more ...
Anonymous
They are absolutely right, this is not scaremonger...
Anonymous
There appears to be a organized comuter crime syni...
Anonymous
these two hackers are the script kiddies they dont...
createcoms
Frankly, I think that though the two hackers are r...
Ben
Actually, I think this is probably the clearest, a...
Anonymous
what these two 'hackers' are saying is undeniably ...
vaxen var
Massive networks of zombie machines are indeed the...
Anonymous
Sounds like all Sci-Fi garbage to me and most of t...
Anonymous
dryice and fixion are script kiddies - you hang ou...
DeKrypt
DryIce is not telling us anything new. These Zombi...
Phil Laszkowicz
What a crap.
We all know Aaron Caffrey is not g...
Anonymous
Nothing new then. The more it changes, the more it...
Alan Lewis
Just about any crime corner is under investigation...
Anonymous
Quite true, and honest. Visit GRC.com loads more i...
Chris Forsey
So sad, all that knowledge used to the good would ...
Ron Towell
Bla, Blah, Blah..... DryTrousers and what's its n...
Anonymous
They are absolutely correct....no doubt about that...
James
Sounds to me like a couple of misfits who could do...
Anonymous
I think they need to get out a bit more and get so...
Tony
Its interesting the varied level of intelligence a...
Lawrence (dryice)
'Shields Up' (GRC) investigated this phenomenon a ...
Barnendu Goswami
Firstly, to all those who write in support, thank ...
Leigh (frixion)
i would just like to say that the real word used s...
Anonymous
I know of one very high profile business looking a...
Kevan Chippindall-Higgin
The Prosecution 'Expert' could learn a lot from th...
Anonymous
This is ridiculous. I mean the fact that you say t...
Anonymous
no actually this is a serious breach of our modern...
drew croft
lawrence is right
at least there are ethics invol...
pankaj bhardwaj
Please note, that a genuine hacker would *not* vol...
Carl White
Security always was a journey and never a destinat...
stuart
Number one, these arent even real hackers, they ar...
BT
NFN
normal for norfolk
sad pathetic individuals ...
martin woodhead
If just the mention of Steve Gibson irks you, then...
monsignor adams
To all of the idiots posting abuse, i think the wh...
Lawrence (dryice)
yes they are right on the money and i happen to kn...
darkcastle
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