Seriously does anyone care about this bit of news? I missed this when it hit the wire but, thanks to Serge for forwarding me the link.
Now, “Infamous Canadian hacker ‘Mafiaboy’ breaks silence with book release” is a title that I have a problem with. He was a 15 year old kid and playing with a DoS. The major difference between this kid (at the time) and anyone else launching a denial of service was one of two things. 1) He was bereft of the intelligence that said “hey, bad idea” and/or 2) Far too mentally challenged to not get caught. I hardly consider a DoS ‘hacking’ so much as a giant nuisance. Sure the instigator can offline a system for a while and cost the target money but, it is by no means indefinite. When you really boil it down it is a pointless endeavour.
From Canada.com
In Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It’s Still Broken, the hacker, now 23, explains that he was not a computer whiz kid but that he quickly gained knowledge of computers and got to know other young hackers.
“After spending years trying to learn everything about how my PC worked, and enjoying every second of learning DOS commands and other technical information, I felt a strange kinship with these nameless, faceless programmers and online rebels,” he writes in an excerpt made available by the publisher. “How did they create these programs? How many more of them were out there? How could I learn to write programs? To me, they were the coolest kids in cyberspace. I wanted to hang with them. I wanted to be a hacker.”
I’m sorry but, could someone grab a mop and bucket?
My head just exploded.
