Schneier on Security

So does this mean Iran is now considered a save haven for all "unconventional thinkers" and "free minds"?
This would be funny if it wasn't so very sad...
jmc

Of course, it could have been some clever branch of who pulled off the hackings, and are of course now safely watching everything that goes on. Much easier to watch one hacker message board than 5.

heh. HTML filter filtered out part of that last comment.

(tinfoil hat)
Of course, it could have been some clever branch of (random government or anti-blackhat NGO) who pulled off the hackings and are of course now safely watching everything that goes on. Much easier to watch one hacker message board than 5.
(/tinfoil hat)

The problem with moving servers to Iran is that the penalty for theft in Muslim countries is typically much harsher than it is in the West. Losing a hand is not preferable to spending a few years in a "country club" (as minumum security prisons for white-collar crime are often called).

Check out the smack talk and original conversations that the USA Today reporter used to contact Iceman.

http://afterlife.wordpress.com/2006/07/12/carding-web-sites/
http://afterlife.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/cardersmarket-shadowcrew-and-credit-card-theft/

With global warming I would not want to be an iceman.

Does an Iceman have snow balls ?

Hacking must be a full time occupation; I bet these guys only leave the computer to go pee. I presume they are well heeled and/or use their skills to earn money illicitly. Apart from the addictive component inevitably attached to such activity, I feel in same strange inverted way, they do a great service to the community at large.

RE: Ryan

While muslim countries may exact a more severe punishment for those convicted of thefts, the hackers aren't in Iran. Most likely they have absolutely no plans to ever visit there, fly over there, etc. Only the computer, an expendable resource, is. Their goal is simply to place the machine's data outside the reach of those most likely to confiscate it: US law enforcement. The FBI isn't going to have much luck asking the Iranian government to pretty please with sugar on top pack up a computer and ship it to Quantico. The Iranians might even be content to leave the server in place just because it's a thorn in our side.

For a peek into one of the above 'hacker' websites, follow google's #1 hit for ScandanavianCarding and watch the video. It's fascinating.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ScandinavianCarding

Well, it just goes to show a market is always susceptible to intense competition, leading to corruption and theft; even black markets. Reminds me of that case about the trucking companies from a couple years ago:

http://www.theregister.com/2004/10/26/competitive_hacking/

"Getloaded.com used many mechanisms to acquire data from the Truckstop.com website. Initially, they just copied the most current lists of unmatched drivers and loads. When Truckstop started using user IDs and passwords, Getloaded did the same. Reasoning correctly that truckers using both sites would create the same userid's and passwords, Getloaded officials logged into Truckstop's site using their customers' IDs. Then they registered a defunct company as a subscriber as another route to getting access to the data.

But this wasn't enough. As the court of appeals noted: "Getloaded's officers also hacked into the code Creative used to operate its website. Microsoft had distributed a patch to prevent a hack it had discovered, but Creative Computing had not yet installed the patch on truckstop.com. Getloaded's president and vice-president hacked into Creative Computing's website through the back door that this patch would have locked."

Re: video in walker's link: the "tips" post review cracked me up... vo: "all of these TOOLS that he is recommending to actually HACK into people's information!" and the post is talking about absolutely generic stuff, links to firefox extensions for editing referrers and watching traffic.

.. tho i suppose i would find it a little scary if i overheard two guys talking about the skull-bashing properties of this hammer or that at the hw store.

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Hoping someone out htere can help me. "I have this friend" (seriously) who is being stalked. The stalker has created a screenname (similiar to the real one but transposed two letters) and profile w/ his pic. The stalker impersonates him online, going into m4m chatrooms, gives out his phone # and address. These men now appear at his front door. The stalker somehow got a picture of a very personal nature that my friend sent via email. The stalker has contacted people from both the sender's and receiver's address books and emailed them the pic. Bottom line, the stalker is making my friend's life a living hell.

AOL will do nothing. The police begrudgingly took a report but are doing nothing. There has to be a way to figure out who this is and how they were able to get into the emails.

I watch all these cop shows/ legal dramas on TV, I know ther ehas to be a way to find out who is doing this.