Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)
Imagine being able to preview an attacker's next move based on the traces left on compromised machines. That's the aim of the Hacker's Profiling Project (HPP), an open methodology that hopes to enable analysts to work on the data (logs, rootkits, and any code) left by intruders from a different point of view, providing them with a profiling methodology that will identify the kind of attacker and therefore his modus operandi and potential targets."
Posted Nov 4, 2006 0:11 UTC (Sat)
by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
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Posted Nov 4, 2006 4:45 UTC (Sat)
by proski (subscriber, #104)
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Posted Nov 4, 2006 11:46 UTC (Sat)
by i3839 (guest, #31386)
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"There is a worldwide massacre on bugs going on. It's believed that the people responsible are so called 'hackers'. They refuse to give up and are already planning their next attack. It's a dangerous and fanatical group."
Oh well, it would be nice, wouldn't it? ;-)
Posted Nov 4, 2006 13:06 UTC (Sat)
by man_ls (guest, #15091)
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Every few months I like to be reminded why I stopped reading newspapers and now get my tech news from specialized places like LWN.
Posted Nov 4, 2006 16:13 UTC (Sat)
by lamikr (guest, #2289)
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Posted Nov 4, 2006 16:24 UTC (Sat)
by ajross (guest, #4563)
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That doesn't mean you can't use the word under alternate
definitions, and if enough people do so the word might reclaim
some of the meaning it had in the 1970's. But to whine at this
point that the whole English-speaking world is using the
term "incorrectly" isn't going to do any good. Language doesn't
work that way.
Posted Nov 4, 2006 19:16 UTC (Sat)
by proski (subscriber, #104)
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Posted Nov 4, 2006 20:55 UTC (Sat)
by ajross (guest, #4563)
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Posted Nov 5, 2006 11:13 UTC (Sun)
by arcticwolf (guest, #8341)
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Dr. Hibbert: "And hillbillies like to be called "sons of the soil," but it ain't gonna happen! Who cares what some criminals are thinking or what they call themselves? :)
Posted Nov 6, 2006 14:50 UTC (Mon)
by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
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Among true hackers, it is considered very bad form to call yourself
a »hacker«. It is a mark of honour conferred by your peers.
Posted Nov 6, 2006 9:48 UTC (Mon)
by wingo (guest, #26929)
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More clueless people using "hacker" to mean computer criminal.
Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)
Maybe we should fill the questionnaire to change the perception of the hackers as computer criminals?
Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)
Latest news:Hacker's Profile
Wow, the questionnaire is really inane. Witness section A-d): socio-economic status, with just one question:
Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)
d) Socio-economic status:
I'm sure most "hackers" will answer this one honestly. Then one day you see in a newspaper a heading like: "85% of hackers come from a high socio-economic background" and you wonder how did they come to that conclusion.
1) What is your socio-economic status?
Low
Average-Low
Average-High
High
Oh, here we go again. Hacker != crackerInside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)
Sorry, but hacker does equal cracker. The term has been
in common use in the language for going on two decades now. It
is what the hackers call themselves. You will find it in many
dictionaries. It is far too late to change things.
Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)
Not all hackers call themselves crackers.
Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)
No, hackers (both kinds) generally call themselves hackers. "Cracker" is mostly a made-up term that sees very limited use. It didn't exist, AFAIK, until it was needed to disambiguate the new, derogatory sense of "hacker".Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)
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It is what the hackers call themselves.
Here I was getting interested about new execution profiler technologies, but boo. I think Project still means what I thought it did, though.Inside the Hacker's Profiling Project (NewsForge)