Only a select few who've known me since my early days when what we did was called 'phreaking' and not hacking know who my 'sinister' alias is,.. LoL. And happily none of them live here in the States. I've known them since they were in highschool posting on usenet groups. They are all working in the computer security industry now and a couple are serious brainiac programmers. They surpassed me early on. If I need a hack that I cant find,.. I ask one of them and usually within a few hours I have an email LoL.

We had known about the RPC exploit in XP when it was still in beta,.. It took them over year before it ever went public and then finally got patched a month later,.. and surprisingly,.. you can still find 100 - 200 unpatched boxes per class c. Just have to be careful of the honey pots,.. I've gotten into a few that I knew about and had to low level wipe the drive for fear of not finding all of their loggers. I'm sure I've been in others,.. but I guess who ever had it setup did not know computer forensics or was not interested in who,.. but rather how and what.

I'll give out one secret,..

If your computer suddenly locks up for no reason what so ever,.. reboots and then comes back up like nothing ever happened,.. odds are,.. and if they are any good you will never know. They will even go so far as to patch your system to protect it from other hackers so they can have it for themselves. XP is still the easiest,.. and since most on Vista disable UAC,.. they make Vista just as easy. Funny thing is,.. a buffer overflow on ZoneAlarm, Nortons or McAffee is what was used to reboot your computer in the first place. I've seen botnets on private IRC servers with 200 channels and over 1000 soldiers per channel. I can almost guarantee Twitter and Facebook was just hit that way.

I know a guy right now that has been hacking Gov servers for more than 15 yrs that I know about and he has never been caught. He is a little on the scary side,.. he's one of those paranoid conspiracy theorists and swears that the US Govt is hiding information about Alien abductions,.. encounters,.. and everything in between. He's shown me some scary shit that I didnt quite know what to make of it,.. but wanted no part of it. Because I'm American I'm supposed to be able to expose it,. yeah,.. more like I'll be the first one arrested. He thinks Bush was hiding Alien technolgy and using mind control through the media to have control over us. LoL.

Hurst