[olug] Portknocker (from OLUG mtg/presentation)

[OBrien, Timothy (Omaha Linux Users Group - OLUG)]

Jay - do you have a link to that? What is you source?

<quote who="Jay Swackhamer">
> Giving the 2600 group a bad image.............
>
> US wardriver pleads guilty to Wi-Fi hacks
> In a rare wireless hacking conviction, a Michigan man entered a guilty
> plea last Friday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina for his
> role in a scheme to steal credit card numbers from the Lowe's chain of
> home improvement stores by taking advantage of an unsecured Wi-Fi network
> at a store in suburban Detroit.
>
> ......
> While the hackers took in a film, Lowe's network security team poured over
> log files and found the bugged program, which had collected only six
> credit card numbers.
> ......
> Botbyl and Timmins, known online as "noweb4u" and "itszer0" respectively,
> are part of the Michigan 2600 hacker scene - an informal collection of
> technology aficionados.
> ......
>
> They replaced the tcpcredit program, and only managed to grab six credit
> card numbers? On a chain that large?
>
>
> .....................
> PETER
> You said the thing was supposed to work.
>
> MICHAEL
> Well, technically it did work.
>
> PETER
> No it didn't!
>
> SAMIR
> It did not work, Michael, ok?!
>
> MICHAEL
> Ok! Ok!
>
> SAMIR
> Ok?!
>
> MICHAEL
> Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place
> or something. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane
> detail.
> ......................
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