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I don't see what's so interesting about this article...
by Hexstream 18y ago
I don't see what's so interesting about this article...
- Hexstream 18y agoAnyone care to enlighten me? edit: I just reread the article... Let's see, Tom Anderson created MySpace, did war-dialing in the WarGames times, got access to the Chase bank system (apparently with a default or weak password), told 40 of his friends how to do it, and they all got raided simultaneously. Public figure + black hat hacking in the past = interesting? There's one thing I found really interesting: "One of the reasons Anderson would hack into living room sized mainframe systems was to get access to computers that could run a C compiler to learn programming. There were no open source or free C compilers at the time, and personal computers had very limited memory and processing power, so hackers would try to access them on other systems."
- tlrobinson 18y agoI think most people assumed the MySpace guys knew just enough PHP to get MySpace off the ground and then got lucky. It's interesting to see there's a little more to it than that.
- ichverstehe 18y agoDialing into a no password-system is hardly any tougher than knowing a bit of PHP.
- migpwr 18y agoWhat's tough about it is that he was 14 and it was the 80's... way before it was popular to take pot shots at PHP.
- joao 18y agoActually, it was Coldfusion. But you're right on point.
- KevBurnsJr 18y agoFor a long time, I wondered whether Tom was a real person. It's nice to have a criminal record to go with his face. Makes him feel a little more real. He is my friend, u know...
- copenja 18y agoWell, I worked at myspace so I can tell you that he is very real. He is actually a really cool guy.
- KevBurnsJr 18y agoRight on :)
- BrandonM 18y agoI voted the article up simply because it was a good piece of original, well-balanced, interesting investigative reporting.