Book Review-the hackers diaries
INTRODUCTION: In this book the hackers diaries the author dan verton explained about the various personality types of kids and interests in computers and hacking backgrounds. He also explained that the kids does't look any special they just like a normal kid who is a neighbour to you.
REVIEW TO CHAPTER-1: "Genocide": From Columbine to Hacking
In this chapter explains about a teenage hacker named Genocide who is from such a background family who don’t even have electricity, telephone line and even water supply.
Genocide parents were divorced when he was 5 years and he was raised by his mother. When he was in school he was not interested in subjects like history, chemistry but show his interest only in computers from his childhood. At first he learned some social engineering techniques from his cousine tony and then he learned about telephone network and then he spent much time in spending school network. Genocide in order to complete his graduation upon time he need to pass chemistry but that was big deal to him. So he planed and find his teacher user ID and password by using social engineering techniques and he entered in to her account from school computer and he change his grade and then he graduated upon time Genocide was able to success into his first hack. After that Genocide mother joined part time courses in Alaska university. Genocide using his mother account he accessed in to university network and spent much in learning bulletin, commands, operating system, hardware etc. Then after Genocide tried in using simple commands such as Root…root etc nothing worked then he typed cat/etc/passwd it shadowed nothing. Then he tried to crack the program that decodes passwords using Brute force attack. Genocide first crack program was success in running but he could not complete the program to run because the administrator come to know someone was running crack program and genocide on the other observing that what others were doing and if any eyes were upon him. So he kill the program in the middle and he ran away quickly. Even though he was unsuccessful to end the crack program but he knew everything about the crack program. Then joined the same college in arts department and now he gained his own access in to the university.
Then he started making hacking friends he got four friends named Wizdom, Astroboy, Alexu, and Malcom each of them are skilled in particular areas and they all shared the valuable information. The 5members of group was joined by 10 more each and every worked on different viruses and had seen which one is the best. Then they laid to the foundation of Genocide 2600 hacker group. This was a great time for Genocide to learn more skills on how to access to password files and cracking them, creating dictionary files brute force cracks etc. Genocide 2600 held meetings regularly and was recognized by university as a part of education activity. Once Genocide along with four friends scheduled a computer room and connected to local ISPs, either by polar net or Alaska net using PPP account and then get connected to server and from there to wherever they want in the university. Genocide also setup a web site on the university network named it Genocide 2600. The website was quickly popular they shared valuable cracking and hacking information. Genocide started scanning the target system called “Moon” and then he gained the access which increased the value and visibility of Genocide 2600 web page. As a result page grew and the university had reported him take it off then he buried it deeper. One Friday when they conducted a meeting and discussed about the advanced tools and then meeting came to end every start leaving but a person was standing and requested Genocide to walk with him. Then he show his FBI credentials and said that they were investigating and said that they can prove Genocide involvement in hacking “Moon server”. Then Genocide told his mother that they were suspecting him for what he had not done. FBI started investigation and was unable to prove that the particular person was Genocide in all the aspects. But the team members were feared to attend the meeting. Then Genocide 2600 group worked on the program called AOHell written by the hacker Da Chronic. The tool helps the hacker to enter in to AOL chat rooms and Zap them e-mail bombs which would crush there systems.
Genocide come to know that it was difficult for him to complete his degree in arts. He thought to find his way in computer industry. Then he left Fairbanks and moved to Oregon and find a professional job in computer security industry. But that was not the end for Genocide 2600 website. He changed Genocide 2600 website to new web server in Portland called Aracnet. Then he continued his operations and its in good pace many people was interested to join the group.
One day he received a voice message from a person named Mr.Jerkins from FBI and want to meet him. Next day Mr.Jerkins along with the other three appeared infront of him and requested him come with them. They moved to a restaurant and then they a file in front of Genocide that the proofs they have both online and offline. They also said them that they want use his knowledge and offered him a job to work with them and asked him to thing about the offer. Then Genocide send e-mail to Genocide 2600 group that he was offered a job in FBI and in next two weeks Genocide 2600 goes off.
Genocide started working with EHAP, Ethical Hacker Against Pedophilia. It helps to law enforcement official track down adults who exploit children. Finally Genocide was happy as he grew up in poor background who don’t even have power, telephone line but was successful in learning hacking techniques and which helped in to grow as a successful person in the life.