From: security curmudgeon (jerichoATTRITION.ORG)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 05:27:05 CDT

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> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1120308
>
> By James Middleton
> [09 Apr 2001]
>
> What motivates a hacker? Does the stereotypical concept of hackers as
> antisocial teens spending weekends on the net surfing for porn and
> trying to break into Windows boxes still fit?
>
> vnunet.com puts these questions to a new group on the hacking scene.
> Less than a month old, World of Hell is indeed on a mission to create
> havoc for systems administrators everywhere, on any platform.
>
> World of Hell also takes pride in the fact that it doesn't just hit on
> NT boxes, confirming the belief that the hacking underground considers
> hackers that can only break into Windows as 'lame'.

http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2001-04.html

And looking at their current defacements, what do we see?

NT, NT, NT, NT, NT, NT, 2k, NT, NT, NT, NT, NT with a single Linux box
thrown in. Errr...

19 NT defacements, 2 Windows 2000 defacements, and 1 Linux defacement this
month. And they berate other groups as 'lame' for hacking Windows NT
boxes?

> To get more of an insight into what it is to be a hacker, read
> vnunet.com's exclusive interview with World of Hell.

And lets get some REAL insight as to what kind of technical geniuses these
guys are...

Let's look at another interview (this one is by no means 'exclusive') and
one of the questions asked of them:

http://security.alldas.de/interviews/?iv=2

Q: Can you explain what a three-way-handshake is?
A: I have no idea what so ever, heh.

*boggle*

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