Month: June 2002

Silly Script Kiddies

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Silly script kiddies, tricks are for kids!

What happens when you float a counterfeit IIS hole in a carder chatroom on IRC, tantalizing its young denizens with a quick, easy score? Do they proxy up, patiently enumerate the site, grab banners, analyze what they're up against and carefully plot an attack? Or do they rush into the trap like so many elite lemmings?

That’s what CardCops’ Dan Clements and Penetrationtest.com’s Karsten Johansson wanted to know. So they set up a fake IIS directory .../InetPub/scripts/_private on an Apache server (yes, Apache), with a fake security hole, seeded a couple of IRC carder channels with the news, and watched. [...]

Slate Is Becoming… Salon

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From this article in the New York Observer, Slate is apparently becoming more like Salon:

Consider some of Slate’s recent material. In just one week, Slate ran cover stories including a review of Barbara Kopple’s ABC TV documentary on the Hamptons, superhero celibacy, Lew Wasserman and the very un-Slate-ish R&B star Ashanti. There have been recent essays on the phenomena of the celebrity shows Extra and Access Hollywood, and pieces explaining the “appeal of Aerosmith’s aging, derivative, eyeliner-wearing hams.” [...]

I’ve always been a Salon fan (and I’ve been meaning to subscribe for some time now), but maybe I’ll give Slate another look. (Link from MediaBistro)

ClearChannelSucks.org

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Via this thread on MetaFilter, ClearChannelSucks.org has launched. ClearChannel, if you're not aware, is an enourmous radio MegaCorp, owning over 1200 stations nationwide.

I’ve never been a fan of ClearChannel but my primary distaste from them is that they accept payola from record companies. That is, they regularly accept payments from record companies to play songs on the radio. Yes that’s why you keep hearing the same 4-5 artists on the radio. Bleh.