The *Official* and ONLY Adrian Lamo Thread for these forums

[renderman]

I found a pic online of Lamo, Mitnick, and Poulson....i find that very ammusing. I know techtv did a piece on him, and showed him getting arrested, It would have been funny if I had gone down to Sacramento today, and accidently was in the coffee shop :D

That pic is at http://www.wired.com/news/photo/0,1860,50811,00.html

if your curious

[Xodia]

Man... Keith Ward seems to be an idiot. That article sounds like sensationalism at its greatest evolution.
I agree with what renderman was saying(without the assistance of 7 beers...so i may not be in such a clear state of mental nervana.). It seems like alot of the hacks that Lamo did where not of excellant technical ability from what i've read, but they don't have to be to still show that company's need to keep an eye on their security, and Lamo definatly did something to that effect. that picture is hilarious.

[Shatter]

Man... Keith Ward seems to be an idiot. That article sounds like sensationalism at its greatest evolution.
I agree with what renderman was saying(without the assistance of 7 beers...so i may not be in such a clear state of mental nervana.). It seems like alot of the hacks that Lamo did where not of excellant technical ability from what i've read, but they don't have to be to still show that company's need to keep an eye on their security, and Lamo definatly did something to that effect. that picture is hilarious.

Most of these "great" hacks are simply exploiting network machines, that are not getting the proper updates and patches.

Case in point: I got an email across my screen with teh security sweep of machines that are still vulnerable to many of the recent alerts form MS. Now, we have the domain login patched so that wen people login, they are automatically scanned and patched.

Problem is: People who arn't logging into the domin.

Mind you, there have numerous mails, alerts, etc, and people STILL don't update their systems. Then some guy who downloads ascripts find a machine that somebody hasn't patches, and likes to leave on al day logged in as Admin with no pass (yes, it happens) and gains info, andbrags about what a wonderful hacker they are, looking out for the greater good.

It's a hell of a lot easier to run some exploit and hijack a machine than it is to manually walk around a rather large corporate HQ and look at every little machine to see if it's GUID matches the scan report.

It's one thing to find new vulnerailities, it's another to just copy cat the work of other people.

[renderman]

Most of these "great" hacks are simply exploiting network machines, that are not getting the proper updates and patches.

Mis-configured proxies were his favorite. He was using proxyhunter for gods sake, There was not much special about his technical ability or methods

His ability to know where to look was more interesting. He found holes in strange places that many would not think to check (read up on his Excite@home adventure)

Keith Ward should be more concerned that someone without any overly special skills or ability was able to do this. How many people are doing the same thing as him, but *not* coming forward to fix the holes? That's the scary part.

[ch0l0man]

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