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2008-10-26 India-Pakistan

Yahoo terror techie wants to turn state's evidence

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Posted by john frum 2008-10-26 09:16|| || Front Page|| [11146 views ] Top

#1 31-year-old Mohammed Peerbhoy was working at an IT company belonging to the Yahoo group and was drawing a hefty pay packet of around 19 lakh rupees a year. He was considered a whiz in web server technology and used his knowledge to hack into unprotected wi-fi connections to send terror emails on behalf of the Indian Mujahideen (IM)

When webmasters go bad. Film at 11.

Posted by badanov 2008-10-26 10:25|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-10-26 10:25|| Front Page Top

#2 He wasn't that good! He got caught.

Maybe he should have looked down the 7 layer model and changed his MAC address too.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-10-26 10:29|| 2008-10-26 10:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I've worked with IT for the last 10 years and they've to teach me the 7 layer model and it don't make no sense to me.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2008-10-26 11:15|| 2008-10-26 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, sorry! The previous was off-topic, Fred, don't delete me......AAAHHH!!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2008-10-26 11:16|| 2008-10-26 11:16|| Front Page Top

#5 7 layer is ISO and BS.
In reality real systems are more like RFCs.

Posted by 3dc 2008-10-26 11:17|| 2008-10-26 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 So,... you're all nerds and/or geeks, aren't you? Not that there is anything wrong with that, of course...

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-26 12:00|| 2008-10-26 12:00|| Front Page Top

#7 I showed our local bank three different ways their "secure" online banking could be hacked, and they had conniptions. I'm just an amateur - think what a hacker-pro could do! Even with doing that, they STILL wanted me to sign up for online banking, the idiots.

Most systems can be hacked. This guy wasn't even attacking anything that was actually SECURE, or supposedly secure.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-10-26 13:35|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-26 13:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe he should have looked down the 7 layer model and changed his MAC address too.

MAC addresses are hard coded on the NIC, and generally cannot be changed. Besides, even in the rare instances it can be changed, it wouldn't make any difference. The MAC gets stripped at the first router hop when the packet is re framed and passed on.

Posted by Techie 2008-10-26 21:02|| 2008-10-26 21:02|| Front Page Top

#9 In reality real systems are more like RFCs.

In reality, TCP/IP implements all 7 layers of the OSI model in 4 layers. RFC's define the inner workings of the various component parts of the protocols that embody the TCP/IP suite.

Posted by Techie 2008-10-26 21:06|| 2008-10-26 21:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Kinda, sorta, techie.

For example, the various TCP/IP-related protocols usually mapped to the OSI application layer don't have the same abstraction and regularization impact that the Europeans anticipated / wanted when they pushed that model.

FWIW: I wrote the layer2 & layer3 & what then was the core of layer4 protocol handlers for one of the first commercially deployed OSI implementations in the US, before the TCP/IP definitions were firmed up for DOD.

Long time ago, when the SNA dinosaurs still roamed the earth and Big Iron was all the rage.

Posted by lotp 2008-10-26 21:37|| 2008-10-26 21:37|| Front Page Top

#11 For example, the various TCP/IP-related protocols usually mapped to the OSI application layer don't have the same abstraction and regularization impact that the Europeans anticipated / wanted when they pushed that model.

True enough. That still doesn't alter the fact that the functionality intended in the OSI 7 layers are implemented in 4 layers of the TCP/IP suite.

FWIW: I wrote the layer2 & layer3 & what then was the core of layer4 protocol handlers for one of the first commercially deployed OSI implementations in the US, before the TCP/IP definitions were firmed up for DOD.

Great. That and $5 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. OSI isn't being used in the US at this time. The TCP/IP suite currently in use is defined in RFC1122, of course, each of the sub-components (protocols) have their own associated RFC's. And, have been revised and enhanced many times since your contribution.

RFC1122 is a four layer model. FWIW, I work with this stuff daily at a large data hosting center as the NetAdmin.

Posted by Techie 2008-10-26 23:06|| 2008-10-26 23:06|| Front Page Top

#12 The MAC gets stripped at the first router hop when the packet is re framed and passed on.

I can has multipul countries? Pls Halp!

Posted by .5MT 2008-10-26 23:10|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-10-26 23:10|| Front Page Top

#13 > MAC addresses are hard coded on the NIC, and generally cannot be changed.

They were easy to change (at least 3com ones were back in 95 via dos). Certainly easy to do with the wifi ones. Or even in the OS.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-10-26 23:20|| 2008-10-26 23:20|| Front Page Top

#14 Did you write your code with fire-hardened sharpened sticks or knapped rocks, lotp?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-10-26 23:48|| 2008-10-26 23:48|| Front Page Top

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