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HackForums is the Chuck E Cheese of cybercrime. Be careful reading too far into this.
by 55555 6y ago
HackForums is the Chuck E Cheese of cybercrime. Be careful reading too far into this.
- Etheryte 6y agoNot only this, but rumor has it that Omni (the original creator of the site) either sold it off or sold root access to a three letter agency years ago.
- ianhawes 6y agoThe fact that it’s still around and there is clear evidence of it facilitating illegal activity leads me to believe it is in fact a honeypot run by law enforcement in the US.
- whimsicalism 6y ago> The fact that it’s still around and there is clear evidence of it facilitating illegal activity there are plenty of smaller sites like this too with much more blatant illegal behavior
- joemazerino 6y agoLink to the rumor?
- jlgaddis 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25025794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25025794
- Etheryte 6y agoAs funny as the comment by jlgaddis is, there is no link, I used to be a mod on the site [0] and that's what I heard through the grapevine some years later. The site's wiki [1] mentions this as well, but I couldn't find a more substantive article: > [Hack Forums] boasts a long span of historical happenings involving major events such as an FBI scandal, members going rogue... [0] https://wiki.hackforums.net/index.php/Etheryte https://wiki.hackforums.net/index.php/Etheryte [1] https://wiki.hackforums.net/index.php?title=Hack_Forums https://wiki.hackforums.net/index.php?title=Hack_Forums
- joemazerino 6y agoIt is interesting how rumours spread and that is why I ask always ask for a link.
- nothasan 6y agoI agree, however I would say it could be classed as the equivalent of a "gateway drug"
- waihtis 6y agoYes. I bet some news agency or other will run a story based on this, and then I’ll have to hear from laymen how ”cyber criminals actually have a lot of honor in their daily workings.”
- FDSGSG 6y agoWell, that's certainly the case on the more business-oriented forums. People regularly trust each other with hundreds of thousands based on reputation alone.
- datameta 6y agoI got a similar vibe from seeing CSS in the banner image. Tough to take the rest of the article seriously upon seeing that...