“A federal investigation has led to the arrest of a Clinton man accused of distributing child pornography on the Internet”, this article in the Quad-City Times Newspaper starts.
He was advertising the file-server as a “Pre-teen and teen girl pics” on IRC.
It seems that Paul Mutton (jibble.org, PieSpy bot, O’Reilly’s “IRC Hacks”) and I share a mutual opinion on how negative IRC is constantly portrayed in the regular press.
“… It always gets me riled when journalists and news reporters persistently portray IRC as some kind of hacker’s playground, where illegal software and and credit card numbers are used as a virtual currency. I set myself the mission of disproving this portrayal”, Paul starts in this article on his website.
Paul explains how IRC is being used in academic usages (I personally manage two IRC channels which is in use by spaceweather scientists and enthusiasts) and the open source community for example.
The Real THR34T KR3W: The Story of Hacker Connor Hansen is an article that shows the way this particular group of crackers worked.
Rather then summarizing the article here I recommend to read the article for anyone who likes to have an idea of the working of such a group.
And someone (again) wake those *.edu and *.mil people up!
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