A Sudden Change of Plans
I had planned to spend my free time this upcoming weekend writing follow-ups to several of the posts I had put up recently. Instead, if I’m lucky, I’m going to be moving Port 80 from its current home at NeoPages to a new server.
The reason, ladies and gentlemen, is the work of those fine gentlemen at the “Q8Cracker Crew” (That’s Kuwait Cracker Crew, for those less experienced in deciphering hacker lingo) who, over the past few days, cracked the NeoPages web server and defaced dozens of the sites hosted here. No real damage was done to the server - most of the websites were quickly repaired.
However, the same is not true for our benevolent overlord and system administrator, Roy, who has finally had enough. As a result, the free hosting he has offered here will be ending no later than December 11th. Many thanks to him for all he has provided to date.
The upshot of this is threefold:
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I am on the hunt for a new host. I’ve got a few possibilities in mind, and I’ll post a URL here when I know where I’m ending up.
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I have a new personal policy on the philosophy of “hactivism.” Whenever someone attempts to explain to me exactly how web site defacement is a valid act of political speech, I will render him unconscious with a sharp blow to the head, and write a political slogan on his face with a felt-tip marker. When he comes to, I will proceed to explain to him how this temporary, largely harmless, defacement was a valid expression of my political beliefs.
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My policy towards those I meet who are self-styled “h4x0rs” is much the same as the above, but with less emphasis on felt-tip markers and more emphasis on sharp blows to the head. I’ve always thought crackers were basically a motley collection of antisocial teen vandals and organized crime syndicates, but that was purely an academic evaluation. Now, it’s personal.
Furthermore, given the nature of their defacements, the fine gentlemen of Q8Crackers appear also to be hard-line Islamists, making them members of another group of people I just adore. (To top it off, these “hackers” write their HTML with FrontPage.)
I’m signing off for now, hopefully to return shortly. Check back before December 11th for a new URL.
Don’t you just hate them? Don’t you just wanna break their ribs, cut their backs open and pull their lungs out from behind? — Ina Faye-Lund, on script kiddies
i’am one of Q8Crackers members … and i just wanna said .. we are sorry to deface you’r site .. when am looking inside your site i find many good articles we need …. am sorry again man and no hard feelings :)
Comment by mishal — 5 December 2004 @ 3:00
First of all, mishal, don’t worry about apologizing to me. If you want to apologize, apologize to the administrator at NeoPages.
Second, I will admit that I’m curious as to what articles you liked. Most of what I write on computer security is written from a “white hat” perspective - what are you interested in on the “black hat” side?
Comment by Zach Heaton (Port 80) — 7 December 2004 @ 12:59
hi man
how are you :) good :) i hope that :)
like what mishal say we are sorry
and plaz no hard feelings
Oky Bay
Comment by DosMan — 7 December 2004 @ 14:57
Again, I’m not the fellow you need to be apologizing to - you need Roy, over at NeoPages. I was just a member of the hosting community that got hit - he ran it. If you look around a little, you can find his e-mail address easily enough.
Comment by Zach Heaton (Port 80) — 7 December 2004 @ 16:46
keep it up mr zach … am intersted in white hat world also am one of thiem :)
Comment by mishal — 7 December 2004 @ 16:49
hi you alll peace upon you
people we just have some msgs we just want to sayd viva lebanon and second all the team are whitehate and some gray-hates a little people of us are the black-hates
# my last news i’m learning CEH
last thing …. We OWWWN
peace out
Comment by KILLERxXx — 7 August 2006 @ 2:21
haw to be haker Q8 hakers ?
is there awy to studey it ??
thanks and gad plas you all kuwaiti
Comment by kaled — 7 January 2007 @ 15:29