Xbox Live Enforcer Reacts to "Hacking"

[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?

 

[RabbiiFrystofsk]

Does he honestly think that calling up a hosting company to change a password is finding a loop-hole in the Xbox Live security system? What a nub.
I bet he changed his gamertag to coincide with MW2 or something.

 

[Cipher1]

I dont normal like hearing about large companies sending out a team of lawyers to deal with a problem but this time, I really do hope they grind this guy into the dirt.

 

[Olikunmissile]

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

I laughed, out loud too.

 

[le picklez]

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

If you're not mature enough to take care of a child, you're not mature enough to have sex. And I'm pretty sure most people would agree that people who say ">Implying" aren't mature enough to take care of a child.

 

[Antari]

I'm so sick of people calling little twerps like this Hackers. One, he entered the system with the intention of making it known he hacked it ... HACKERS DON'T DO THIS!!!!!!! at the very BEST he falls under the description of a Phreak as he was more intent on doing damage than information gathering. Calling anyone who does anything with a computer online a hacker is just downright stupid.

 

[duchaked]

somehow the whole "I'm just trying to help" spiel doesn't tie in well with the "I'm gonna have sex with your wife" part
excuse, much? starting to get scared of jail? lol >

 

[MrJoyless]

Isn't hacking into someones password protected...well...anything a crime? Im pretty sure I have seen something to that effect.

 

[subtlefuge]

I'm sure they'll come out with a patch for the obvious security flaws that Predator found. Oh wait...

 

[Booze Zombie]

I laughed, out loud too.

Make sure to read it in a Texas accent for added lulz.

 

[VulakAerr]

I laughed, out loud too.

Make sure to read it in a Texas accent for added lulz.

And given that Stepto is from Texas, imagine that it's him, picking up the Predator call one time, and breathing it quietly down the line.

 

[littlewisp]

This is supremely irritating. Justice needs to be served on the little wiener.

 

[Booze Zombie]

And given that Stepto is from Texas, imagine that it's him, picking up the Predator call one time, and breathing it quietly down the line.

Ooh! That's good!

 

[Undeadpool]

So if I contact a web site adim, and manage to convice them im someone else, and that I cant access my account, they will reset the password, allowing me access... and I can call myself a hacker?

Damn, if thats all it takes, than I was wasting my time trying to do what they did in Hackers...

I used to have a roommate who dubbed himself "the conman" because of his AMAZING abilities to con things out of people. Except the people he was conning were customer service reps. And the "con" he was used was complaining loudly and for great deals of time until he got what he wanted.
If you've ever worked retail, you've probably been "conned" by a similar tactic, except used by people over 60 with too much free time on their hands.

 

[sleeky01]

Xbox Live Enforcer Reacts to "Hacking"



Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Anonymous.