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Re:Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus? by EricR23 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @10:28AM (#4131972)
The Steve Gibson story was really interesting. He's a really cool guy, too. My botnet adventures happened around the same time as his, and I too was DDoS'd. We even exchanged a few e-mails about botnets and the script kiddie culture. Those were fun times.
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Re:Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus? by mahmud on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @10:55AM (#4132108)
Except when he went on record opposing the addition of raw-sockets to Windows XP saying it would help hackers and spell the end of the world. I remember clutching my Redhat CD, just in case raw sockets were banned ;-)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/25/steve_gibson_really_...

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Re:Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus? by koenigdavidmj on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @12:35PM (#4132713)
And then you know they banned them with a nonremovable patch, right? http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2005/4
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Re:Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus? by mahmud on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @09:22PM (#4135172)
Who cares about XP? I was fearing legislation because his cry of wolf was heard far and wide.
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Re:Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus? by EricR23 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @11:28AM (#4132315)
Ah, yeah, I remember that too now :)
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