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2005-05-26 Home Front: Tech

Vigilante hackers use Old West tactics for cyberspace justice

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Posted by muck4doo 2005-05-26 08:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Long live the Lads!

Posted by Gir 2005-05-26 10:04|| 2005-05-26 10:04|| Front Page Top

#2 I applaud these efforts. What I'd like to do is see everyone who gets a spam or phishing email be allowed one free punch at the jerks who send this stuff out. Send out 1 million emails? Then you get 1 million people who each get one punch at your head!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2005-05-26 10:19|| 2005-05-26 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 God bless em I say. If they could gather info on the perps and forward it to law enforcement more better. When caught and convicted I'd be inclined to impose a modified sharia sentencing procedure for perps entailing the crushing of digits based upon damage inflicted upon people.

Posted by Tkat 2005-05-26 10:20|| 2005-05-26 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Lads! Lads! Lads!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-05-26 10:43|| 2005-05-26 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 That must be the "academic" influence talking.

It sounds more like the CYA influence talking. "Oh, we really wouldn't care to discuss the ethics of taking down the websites of the scum-sucking, father-raping, kiddie-diddling rat bastards. They're all tight with trial lawyers."

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-05-26 10:54|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-05-26 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Myself, I'd settle for a brisk flogging of the trackback comment spammer who keeps trying to advertise certain card games and sexual perversions for free on my website.
Yoo-hoo, Lads... over here! The numbskull with the trackback spam! It'd be a public service!

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2005-05-26 11:21|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-05-26 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Online Poker dropped 40 comments inviting us to go to his site and ~~give him money~~ play the other night. As it happened, none was tied to an article so nobody saw them except me, when I was doing my routine maintenance.

Posted by Fred 2005-05-26 11:24|| 2005-05-26 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 tryin to putn together em malware blog. gotta werk it moren ima get home

Posted by muck4doo 2005-05-26 11:38|| http://malwareprotection.blogspot.com/]">[http://malwareprotection.blogspot.com/] 2005-05-26 11:38|| Front Page Top

#9 I believe - at least in this country - that you're allowed to commit a small crime to stop a greater crime.

If any of these guys get hauled into court - which I doubt - that might be a good defense.

Particularly if the judge just got phished or spammed.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-05-26 12:16|| 2005-05-26 12:16|| Front Page Top

#10 If any of these guys get hauled into court - which I doubt - that might be a good defense.

Particularly if the judge just got phished or spammed.

Especially right before trial ;o)

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-26 12:37|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-26 12:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Can I watch? I have no room in my heart for these phishing and spamming criminals if the white hats want to take them down, good on them.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-05-26 13:17|| 2005-05-26 13:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Any of these guys go to court they can ask for donations for bail/legal expenses and become millionaires with the flood of donation money.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-05-26 15:02|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-05-26 15:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Best thing is they won't go to jail because the Phishers won't report them and the authorities won't do anything without someone willing to press charges. This is how the DOS attackers blackmail so many sites. Because so many appease the blackmailers by paying them off rather than risking an attack and the cops can't do anything about it.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-05-26 15:03|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-05-26 15:03|| Front Page Top

#14 duz anyone heer have speriense with squakbox?

Posted by muck4doo 2005-05-26 16:47|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-05-26 16:47|| Front Page Top

#15 Dirty job , but someone gotta do it .

On a side note , good conversion to php Fred . Makes site management so much easier Imho.

Posted by MacNails 2005-05-26 18:50|| 2005-05-26 18:50|| Front Page Top

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