Edgar Enrique Alvarado

January 12, 2010

Block 4

Questions

 

  1. The makers of the movie Hackers might have pretended their site was hacked to get more publicity for the movie. The evidence they provide to show that this is not their doing is the letter from the “hacker” and the hacked site.
  2. Three changes the hacker made to the original website was: the picture, the writing content, and the pictures.
  3. Yes the hacker like the movie because he/she claims that he/she wrote it.
  4. DefCon is the Annual Hacker Convention.
  5. Three rules that the violated “ethical hacker” rules are:  Do not intentionally damage *any* system, Watch what you post on boards, Finally, if you get caught, stay quiet until you get a lawyer.
  6. Two reasons the hacker gives for hacking the site is that he claims the movie script was his and the other reason is that he just wanted to prank them.
  7. His true reasons for his hacking was that he was just pulling a prank.
  8. He claims to not have any help.
  9. He claims that he actually helped them by hacking their site.
  10. No. His tone in his letter sounds more serious than what most people expect from the average hacker.
  11. He says that real hackers are “explorers not vandals.”
  12. He shows that he is a real hacker by writing about the incident on a hacker blog later.
  13. He fears that he will get arrested.
  14. The hacker on the other hand is an individual who yearns for knowledge
  15. The definition of a cracker is one who attempts to break into a system via cracking/guessing user passwords.
  16. The difference between crackers and hackers are the media often times mistakes the cracker for the hacker. Also note that a cracker's level of education/intelligence on the system and its inner workings etc. is very low.
  17. The definition of a cracker is one who attempts to break into a system via cracking/guessing user passwords.
  18. A hacker can break into a machine and destroy it.
  19. Anything that is on the list of ethics.
  20. They do it no for breaking the law, but for the thrill and the pursuit and capture of knowledge.
  21. The writer of the code for these type of hackers is a gray hat.
  22. The other hacker sites are blocked because they show content that the school system deemed as inappropriate for people to look at.
  23. None of the hacking activities described on this page are legal.
  24. The potential harm that can be caused to a company by a hacker altering their web page is a bountiful amount of money or a hole in their site.
  25. No, “Gray Hat” hacking on illegal sites is not permitted by the code.
  26. In my opinion, the movie producers just hacked their own site to gain publicity because all of their evidence seems very unreal and fake.