Xbox Live Enforcer Reacts to "Hacking"

[Cecilthedarkknight_234]

......why bother hacking on the 360... i mean hell it's not worth having your console bricked or promote that your doing it online. Jesus Christ this is why I stay far away from xbox live.

 

[D Moness]

You ain't going to be any form of predator in jail, boy.

I think jail will cheat him a dozen other ways to have sex.

 

[SomEngangVar]

I'd love to know the similarities between the two ideals considering pre-marital sex is more immoral than hacking someones account.

>Implying having sex with my girlfriend is more immoral than the laws he broke.
>Implying having sex with my girlfriend is immoral

 

[mechanixis]

Xbox Live douchebags are really, really bad at pretending they aren't douchebags.

 

[mechanixis]

"Honest, I wasn't being a raging douchehorse, I was just trying to elucidate you on all the glaring security holes in your wife."

 

[Keava]

I lol when people think password resetting combined with social engineering is hacking... Most of the "modders" and "hackers" on xbox are usually trolls and live for this sort of crap. If anything it just hurts the cause they try and push, making groups like Anonymous seem chaotic and inmature.


That's why that PS3 hacker Geohotz is going to have to pay out his ass.

Lol when people think it isn't.
Quite many of the big hacks in the history of internet were possible exactly thanks to that. The recent Anonymous attack on HBGary? Phishing e-mail, not to mention the whole story of Kevin Mitnick - one of 'big names' in the scene that supposedly never used any cracking software and gained all the passwords thanks to social engineering.

Why spend hours on looking through thousand sof lines of code when one call or forged e-mail can grant you the same result?

 

[TheEternal01]

I work for a gov. contractor in the states and nearly every "internal security" video we have to sit through is about not answering suspicious mail and not talking to people who "seem alittle too interested in your job" lol could probably rename those training courses "Stop being idiots"

 

[Mrsoupcup]

I lol when people think password resetting combined with social engineering is hacking... Most of the "modders" and "hackers" on xbox are usually trolls and live for this sort of crap. If anything it just hurts the cause they try and push, making groups like Anonymous seem chaotic and inmature.


That's why that PS3 hacker Geohotz is going to have to pay out his ass.

Lol when people think it isn't.
Quite many of the big hacks in the history of internet were possible exactly thanks to that. The recent Anonymous attack on HBGary? Phishing e-mail, not to mention the whole story of Kevin Mitnick - one of 'big names' in the scene that supposedly never used any cracking software and gained all the passwords thanks to social engineering.

Why spend hours on looking through thousand sof lines of code when one call or forged e-mail can grant you the same result?

I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it isn't hacking. Hacking isn't pretending to be someone and making a phone call. It's usually piracy or hardware and software modding.

I'm well aware of how effect social engineering can be, but there is a difference between the two.

 

[Ghengis John]

Looks like another plane ticket's being bought to South America.

 

[KilloZapit]

Convincing people to give you information actually is a classic method of hacking that has been used since the 70es. It's called "Social Engineering". Look it up. Not all hacking is sitting in front of a computer and sniffing packets all day you know. On a side note, this is the reason Sneakers is the only "hacker" movie ever to actually get things right.

The thing is though, if people were relatively smart and actually took security seriously, 99% of all "hackers" wouldn't be able to break into squat. If you fall victim to a hacker, it's usually your own damn fault (or at least the fault of someone who you trust with your information).

 

[Dired]

If, as expected, the kid is a minor and his parents have no idea how he spends his free time, really, what are they going to do? Any punishment he can expect is barely a slap on the wrist, and the exposure he's already received is probably the best thing that's ever happened to him. If he's an adult, sure, that opens up harassment and other stuff, but for a kid, good luck getting any punishment severe enough to make a difference stick. Morons like this are just part of the cost of doing business.

 

[Keava]

I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it isn't hacking. Hacking isn't pretending to be someone and making a phone call. It's usually piracy or hardware and software modding.

I'm well aware of how effect social engineering can be, but there is a difference between the two.

Please, learn the history behind the terms you are using, especially if you are using them wrongly.

It's sad that even nearly 30 years after the term got it's pejorative meaning created by media and we still use it that way. Maybe it will sound surprising, my dear friend, but those 'evil hackers' created the internet you know, they even, gasp, created the OS you use, Bill Gates himself was considered a hacker in the 70s, Linus is a hacker. The term was created by people from MIT who were behind free software movement and originally meant "a person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular."

The people you think about ? The ones doing piracy and those that DDoS for lulz or use bruteforce password generators? They are called crackers and script kiddies respectively. Completely different thing.

Now of course, the people who breach computer security are considered hackers these days, but they rarely are even remotely concerned about things like piracy, they look for information, secrets, and every bit of non-public data.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it isn't hacking. Hacking isn't pretending to be someone and making a phone call. It's usually piracy or hardware and software modding.

I'm well aware of how effect social engineering can be, but there is a difference between the two.

It's sad that even nearly 30 years after the term got it's pejorative meaning created by media and we still use it that way. Maybe it will sound surprising, my dear friend, but those 'evil hackers' created the internet you know, they even, gasp, created the OS you use, Bill Gates himself was considered a hacker in the 70s, Linus is a hacker. The term was created by people from MIT who were behind free software movement and originally meant "a person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular."

I wasn't thinking of the evil hackers when I said pirates or modders. I was thinking of the type of people who hack kinect for gmod, and I never once said it was bad. So don't get condescending with me simply becuase you don't like my view.

 

[Grunt_Man11]

This schmuck reminds me of a cheater I ran into while playing Halo 2 via old X-box Live so long ago.

Lame user name made in a weak attempt at being offensive: check.
Failed attempt at making his emblem look like reproductive organs: check.
Boasting that he's been banned seven times from X-Box Live: check.

The funny part was that the only thing this moron accomplished was spending more money of X-Box Live then the rest of us.
If his claim of being banned seven times before was true, then that would mean he has spent about $350 on X-Box Live. He has given Microsoft and extra $300... yeah... way to stick it to them, moron.

This "Predator" deserves what he has coming to him.

 

[Druyn]

You ain't going to be any form of predator in jail, boy.

Wow, isn't very often we get genuinely witty comments on the internet. Kudos to you, you made me smile/lqtm. Which is much more impressive than it sounds, honestly.

OT: This kid is just a tool. He clearly isnt aking this very seriously at all, trying to say hes helping while at the same time leaving such messages. I would be intersted in knowing this kids age. He is either young and highly resourceful, or older and incredibly immature. Not the "hacking"/fraud so much, but just the behavior seemingly involved on his part is ridiculous and childish. If this is a game to him now, lets see how much fun it is when Microsoft starts bringing in lawyers. Here's a hint: When you decide to take on one of the largest, most popular, and most powerful corporations on Earth without anything resembling a legitimate reason, you don't win. Ever.

However, if he has been banned 35 times, you would think maybe somebody would do something about that? Like maybe say, oh hey, were not accepting this credit card anymore, or money from this account, or accounts from this IP, etc.

 

[Saelune]

I might honestly believe GeoHotz should not be punished for his "crimes". But this Predator-guy, I hope Microsoft crush him with all its might.

Geohots is just fighting with Sony. Predator is fighting with all people who own a live account.

 

[ZehGeek]

Idiot troll is idiot.

 

[Dragonpit]

It's just another group of kids who take pride in doing something completely arbitrary and nothing else. They have self-esteem issues they project on to others because they like the feeling of power and making others suffer gives them that feeling.

Short point: They deserve whatever $#!^ they get.

 

[Hairetos]

I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it isn't hacking. Hacking isn't pretending to be someone and making a phone call. It's usually piracy or hardware and software modding.

I'm well aware of how effect social engineering can be, but there is a difference between the two.

Please, learn the history behind the terms you are using, especially if you are using them wrongly.

It's sad that even nearly 30 years after the term got it's pejorative meaning created by media and we still use it that way. Maybe it will sound surprising, my dear friend, but those 'evil hackers' created the internet you know, they even, gasp, created the OS you use, Bill Gates himself was considered a hacker in the 70s, Linus is a hacker. The term was created by people from MIT who were behind free software movement and originally meant "a person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular."

The people you think about ? The ones doing piracy and those that DDoS for lulz or use bruteforce password generators? They are called crackers and script kiddies respectively. Completely different thing.

Now of course, the people who breach computer security are considered hackers these days, but they rarely are even remotely concerned about things like piracy, they look for information, secrets, and every bit of non-public data.

I just wanted to point out that you got "crackers" and "script kiddies" backwards since you used the term "respectively".

It should read: "The ones doing piracy and those that DDoS for lulz or use brute force password generators? They are called script kiddies and crackers, respectively."

Crackers brute force (or some other cryptographic breaking process), script kiddies DDoS.

 

[Originality]

"who posted a video on youtube (now removed) covering his exploits this weeekend."
Am I the only one amused when I find such typos in professional articles?