/lets hope jailarity ensues
Posted on 08/23/2007 9:57:13 AM PDT by SubGeniusX
THE 'social news' website Fark claimed that a hack working for a Fox-owned TV station in Memphis had a go at cracking their site. The site's owner, Drew Curtis, is suing Fox for the attempted hacking.
Silicon Valley gossip magazine Valleywag outted Darrell Phillips as the hack Curtis says is responsible for breaking into his site.
Apparently insiders at Fox told Valleywag that Phillips has a history of sending dodgy email attachments and Curtis claims that a trail leads to Phillips' machine. The hacker had access to a machine inside the Fox network, and control of Phillips' PayPal account, he claimed.
The facts are that on August 8, several Fark staff received suspicious email encouraging Fark staff to visit a particular website. In August 12 similar emails continued to arrive for other Fark volunteer staff, most pretending to be from other staff.
The emails linked to three websites which installed two different trojan horse programs. All the emails came from a server in Australia and any infected computer would try to communicate with a computer in Tennessee. The Trojan would look for passwords and mail them on.
The IP address of the Tennessee server showed up in multiple attempts to break into Fark accounts belonging to both staff and users. It was successful once.
The lawsuit is one thing but Farking with a Tech savvy bunch of Farkers would not be the best idea IMHO....
/Duke Sucks
Curtis should stop whining and Fark himself..
Last week, Drew Curtis, left, the founder of Fark.com, the outrageous social-news website, accused Darrell Phillips, to his right, an employee at a News Corp.-owned Fox TV station in Memphis, Tenn., of attempting to hack into Fark."
/Your dog wants steak
Drew is making a lot of money off Fark now. He rightfully doesn’t want some guy who is trying to set up some local Memphis version of FARK to screw up his cash cow in any way.
Fark has people post essentially news of the wierd (some doozies, I might add) and they are upset that some one from Fox tried to hack into their site which for reasons beyond me is wierd in itself.
Had this been some one from Kos, would Drew be as wicked off?
BTW - /Duke Farkin' Sucks.
My guess is yes Fark as an entity tends to be "policically neutral" at least in the sense that they will Fark with the left and the right ... also Farkers represent the entire political spectrum as evidenced by comments throughout the site...
Last I checked, sending trojans and hacking to gain control or access are illegal. That said, illegal is one thing, stupid is another. The level of technical expertise to run a site like Fark (or a site like FR) is vast, and the idea that the good people running such a site wouldn't notice or be able to untangle this sort of thing quickly (which they did) is laughable.
Anyone who leaves such a direct trail back to their crime did not think their cunning plan all the way through.
/And yes, Duke does indeed suck.
Fox fouled Fark. Fried Fark finds fault files.
Hmn, something amusing is taking place.
Ping....
Farkin’ bastige!
/lets hope jailarity ensues
Not a TF’er, but I do like to go there when the latest drugged blond media broad checks in to rehab threads get to be too much on FR.
I coud haz sponzer?
And just what is wrong with using Trojans to keep all the Farkers safe?
Mahalo
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