posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 2:28 PM
by
demiliani
The right choice for an Hacker
One of my favourite site that I check every day is The Hacker's Choice (THC), the site of a group of international experts involved in network and system security.
Today on the first page there's an announce: Johnny CyberPunk, a famous hacker of this community, says that "This is an anouncement that I'll personally not publish any further exploits to the public. Too many flames from guys who are too lame to use the exploits or to fix offsets for other targets. Too many risks that kiddies around the world use it for bad purposes. I saw, that the original intention, to publish exploits, for pentesting or patch verifing purposes didn't work. Remember, that I speak just for me, not for the rest of the group".
I agree with this choice. His last free creation was the IIS 5 Exploits code, freely available (source written in C) on the site. This code could be dangerous if someone use it only to "play as an hacker". Publish code to take advantages from exploits is not the right direction for an hacker with intelligence.
Good decision Johnny! 