I was surprised to see someone on the list that I used to know. Around 1996-1998 I knew Ehud Tenenbaum (Analyzer) from Undernet IRC. When I knew him, he was a

I was surprised to see someone on the list that I used to know. Around 1996-1998 I knew Ehud Tenenbaum (Analyzer) from Undernet IRC. When I knew him, he was a standard script kiddie. He had rudimentary programming skills and only used exploit code (buffer overflow, race condition, etc) that others wrote. Basically he collected exploits, ran them against servers, used the hacked servers to sniff network packets to get more passwords as well as to scan additional systems. He would spend probably 80% of each day doing this. Unlike many hackers that would secure the systems they hacked into, he had a habit of putting a root privileged shell onto a high port with inetd. He lost a lot of systems to other hackers because of this. Since he "owned" hundreds of systems at any one time, it never seemed to bother him much though. The fact that he is on the "legendary hacker" list makes me believe a better name for it might be, "sloppy hackers that got caught" list. Excuse the throw-away. While the statute of limitations is probably a decade past for me I don't like to take chances.