Hacker Awarded for Discovering Rift Security Issues
- Thread starter Tom Goldman
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Yeah it's nice to know there are people with that kind of power and time on their hands to use for good. Although, you ever wonder if he merely found it by accident or if he TRIED to find something wrong, thinking that if he did he would report it and get a reward for. I'm thinking the latter seems unlikely considering how some other companies do not take kindly to anyone who tries to play around with their software, even if the discovery of a loophole saves the hides of themselves and their customers.
Sounds like an MMORPG work supporting, I'm going to have to wait until I leave college, sadly.
Hope it's still going by then...
Hope it's still going by then...
There are honest people in the world. Not everyone feels the need to screw over others for the hell of it. And in case you missed the point or don't understand, an ethical hacker is someone who looks for security holes and exploits so that they can get them fixed. This is his profession and I severely doubt he is going to put his professional reputation on the line for the sake of a videogame and his e-peen within it.Aeshi said:
I like how popular culture and and the media have changed the image of a Hacker. Its worth a wiki lookup since like many things theres differant types and motivations. In general a hacker is not the cheating/exploiting criminal they are often made out to be.
At least hackers in Rift are finally receiving some press on the escapist. They are the main reason i talked myself out of getting Rift - their forums are littered with people saying their accounts have been hacked and they're left with nothing. Considering there's no authenticator and you can just sign in from anywhere even though you're already signed in and playing, it's easy to see how this might be a problem. Still, at least this is a step in the right direction.
And that ladies and gentleman is what a hacker SHOULD be.
anonymous could take a lesson from that guy.
anonymous could take a lesson from that guy.
Believe me, as someone who once hacked a joke of a program just out of curiosity, (I'm not a hacker, I'm a programmer. But someone mentioned something and I thought I'd see what happened), you don't accidentally hack something.Infesord said:
At the very least, you have to be monitoring stuff no normal person would be looking at. And in many cases there's so much data that even then you wouldn't notice anything unless you were explicitly checking a program very carefully.
Now, I'm sure an experienced hacker can spot signs of certain kinds of vulnerabilities quite easily, and may even have automated tools that can find some things, but it's still not something I'd call an 'accident'.
He works for a security firm, he might just run his diagnostic tools on everything he uses for fun and curiosity. Maybe he put in a little extra attention since the company was having problems with their accounts.CrystalShadow said:
Still, what a nice guy. Appropriate name, too.
It's really not.w@rew0lf said:
The vast majority of hackers don't do bad shit.
If they did, we'd have to close down the internet.
You just hear about all the bad stuff some hackers do, since they're the only ones you hear about.
If, for example, one in a hundred kids is an asshole that throws rocks at windows. That's still 10 kids in 1000.
If those 10 kids ran around throwing rocks at windows, it's not really fair to say that the other 990 kids are also assholes.
Besides, most of the 'hacking' you hear about isn't even hacking at all to begin with.
It's just script kiddies with manufactured trojans.