e: i would never recommend any of their meetups tho, outside maybe some larger national stuff. seems like a massive honeypot
JohnBeige posted:2600 is an old school hacker printmag that does still exist. i recommend buying at print media stands with larger selections, lots of neat articles. that said, yeah basically the entire scene is full of people who either talk too much or work directly or indirectly for the security state.
oh no i have heard of this. just forgot/didnt connect. i should try hunting down pdfs though. if anyone has them.. hmu
http://www.phrack.org/issues/69/1.html
ialdabaoth posted:same thing geezer
Get a load of Neo over here
the Clinton admin did a lot of work in the 90s to recruit hackers in the US and they did a really good job making permanent connections with the culture. after years of intelligence being super stressed about not being able to deal with hackers and shit like the hagbard celine debacle (german hacker wizkid does a shitload of coke and decides he's going to steal and sell intel to both the US and Soviets, it doesn't end well for him) they made a really good judgement call: these guys are on the bleeding edge, if we can't stop them why don't we just ask nicely (with $$$) if they'll work for us? a huge success integrating new and scary lumpen elements directly into the state apparatus
shriekingviolet posted:the hagbard celine debacle
just the other day i was reminded of the film 23 for some reason, i have to rewatch it some time soon. back in the day i taped it on a whim when i saw it in the tv guide and it became one of my favourite films for a while. it's probably fairly anticommunist but should still be a good nostalgia trip
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/an-11-year-old-changed-election-results-on-a-replica-florida-state-website-in-under-10-minutes
An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes
An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest yearly hacking convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said.
Thousands of adult hackers attend the convention annually, while this year a group of children attempted to hack 13 imitation websites linked to voting in presidential battleground states.
The boy, who was identified by DEFCON officials as Emmett Brewer, accessed a replica of the Florida secretary of state’s website. He was one of about 50 children between the ages of 8 and 16 who were taking part in the so-called “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village,” a portion of which allowed kids the chance to manipulate party names, candidate names and vote count totals.
Here’s the DefCon Voting Machine Hacking Village roundup of discoveries for the day! Day 1 / Part 1 pic.twitter.com/ovQs7uX7jK
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) August 11, 2018
Nico Sell, the co-founder of the the non-profit r00tz Asylum, which teaches children how to become hackers and helped organize the event, said an 11-year-old girl also managed to make changes to the same Florida replica website in about 15 minutes, tripling the number of votes found there.
Sell said more than 30 children hacked a variety of other similar state replica websites in under a half hour.
“These are very accurate replicas of all of the sites,” Sell told the PBS NewsHour on Sunday. “These things should not be easy enough for an 8-year-old kid to hack within 30 minutes, it’s negligent for us as a society.”
Sell said the idea for the event began last year, after adult hackers were able to access similar voting sites in less than five minutes.
“So this year we decided to bring the voting village to the kids as well,” she said.
About 50 children participated in the DEFCON hacking event for children on Friday and Saturday. More than 30 of them were able to hack into replicas of secretaries of states, where vote tallies are posted. Photo courtesy of r00tz Asylum
In a statement regarding the event, the National Association of Secretaries of State said it is “ready to work with civic-minded members of the DEFCON community wanting to become part of a proactive team effort to secure our elections.” But the organization expressed skepticism over the hackers’ abilities to access the actual state websites.
“It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols,” it read. “While it is undeniable websites are vulnerable to hackers, election night reporting websites are only used to publish preliminary, unofficial results for the public and the media. The sites are not connected to vote counting equipment and could never change actual election results.”’
But Sell said the exercise the children took part in demonstrates the level of security vulnerabilities found in the U.S. election system.
“To me that statement says that the secretaries of states are not taking this seriously. Although it’s not the real voting results it’s the results that get released to the public. And that could cause complete chaos,” she said. “The site may be a replica but the vulnerabilities that these kids were exploiting were not replicas, they’re the real thing.”
“I think the general public does not understand how large a threat this is, and how serious a situation that we’re in right now with our democracy,” she said.
Matt Blaze, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania who helped organize the “hacking village,” said that thousands of adults including voting security experts also tried to access voting machines and other voting software currently being used in U.S. elections today to become “more knowledgeable about voter technology.”
He also noted that the children who participated in their own challenge last week were dealing with replicas that were in many cases created to be even more formidable to access than the actual websites used by secretaries of states across the nation.
littlegreenpills posted:i went to the most pathetic fascist rally, literally three of them turned up. there were roughly 25 cops for each of them, batons, horses, the works. you couldn't even see them behind the police line mostly. lots of antifa, lots of screaming, one of the fash had her glasses snatched off her face and broken and i felt a frisson of pity on hearing. am i ideologically unreliable
Who were the two friends you brought with you?
karphead posted:got laid off today for being a "bad fit" so i get to sleep in tomorrow
Damn... what outfit were you wearing?
ilmdge posted:I decided to sit out in the little patch of yard I have with a beer, listen to the cicadas, and throw a ball around to my dog. I started worrying about mosquitoes and then began feeling so insanely itchy in under 10 minutes that I felt I must be a experiencing State Department flackey in Cuba- level hysteria. Came back in before even finishing my beer and checked my ankles to find almost a dozen bites per foot. Outside: not even once
im covered in spider bites but no mosquitoes
Meursault posted:karphead posted:got laid off today for being a "bad fit" so i get to sleep in tomorrow
Damn... what outfit were you wearing?
it was one of those things where the manager asks to speak to you for a minute and you know you're getting the sack. the only thing i regret is forgetting my sunglasses to put on a la lebowski. god, i want to do that once in my life...
def rip for my meager savings though
pouring one out for yr wallet