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Twitter account of the hackers: https://twitter.com/CultOfRazer https://twitter.com/CultOfRazer
by Kristine1975 10y ago
Twitter account of the hackers: https://twitter.com/CultOfRazer https://twitter.com/CultOfRazer
- pluma 10y agoI'm not sure it's appropriate to give that kind of people unwarranted publicity.
- teh_klev 10y agoLinks on HN are rel="nofollow" so they're not going to get any google juice.
- eli 10y agoI don't think SEO is what pluma is concerned about
- Karunamon 10y agoSo what are they concerned about then? There's some moral wrong to watching crooks be crooks?
- pluma 10y agoThere's some moral wrong giving people exposure who are being obnoxious in order to get exposure. Linking may not imply endorsement but their twitter account clearly shows they want the public hate as attention, so whether you want it or not, you're doing them a favour by naming them, even if to scold them. This is akin to associating every mass killing with a terrorist organisation (whether accurate or not) and showing detailed videos of those killings when the entire point of a terrorist organisation is spreading terror.
- kuschku 10y agoWhat "kind of people"? They had the power to abuse that data and ship malware to millions, but decided just to give people a scare. That’s just the average grey-hat, or how most hackers were in the 90s. Compared with the profit-obsessed and abusive hackers and companies on the web today, which try to shove actual malware, sometimes installers with tons of preselected options, sometimes bitlocker, they’re not bad.
- pluma 10y agoBlack hat hackers who bask in people calling them names in response to their mischievous adventures. Deleting the partition table is not grey hat, it's black hat. The bad guy in a Western isn't suddenly neutral just because he isn't literally Josef Stalin.
- gnu8 10y agoDon't think of it as publicity, think of it as threat intelligence.
- zymhan 10y agoRelevant tweets: Warning: Certain audio editing software and system customization tools may be incompatible with Razer firmware. A new ClassicShell update was released to patch incompatibilities with Razer hardware! Download it at http://classicshell.net http://classicshell.net To anyone upset: At least we didn't decide to steal all your shit. Because you ran that as admin. We totally could've installed a rootkit.