Hacker Deletes own Hard drive

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Hacker deletes own hard drive

You're going down, man!


By Paul Hales: Wednesday 27 April 2005, 09:31

A CHAT CHANNEL spat ended when a wannabe hacker was duped into deleting his own hard drive.
The 26 year-old German claimed he was the baddest hacker in town and threatened to attack a moderator on #stopHipHop's RC Channel because he thought he'd been thrown out.

He demanded the moderator cough up his IP address and prepare to be hacked.

The moderator sent back a bunch of numbers and there then followed a period in which the moderator assumes all manner of hack tools were unleashed at the IP address.

Finally the hacker declared success."I can see your E: drive disappearing, he gloated, "D: is down 45 percent!" he cried, before disappearing into the ether.

It seems he'd been hot enough to hack his own address.

Comments

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

A real BS artist once convinced the Church of $cientology someone had all of their confidential documents on a pirate FTP server at IP address 127.0.0.1

In true CoS fashion, they took a look, freaked, and sued the guy for about a zillion dollars. When 127.0.0.1 was explained to the judge he laughed them out of court.

[microchip.livejournal.com]

I saw that before. Yeah, they fed him 127.0.0.1. Was amusing. Not sure if it was a hoax though.

[cmdrproteus.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this was a hoax or not, but I've heard so many variations of jokes/stories revolved around "hacking 127.0.0.1 boxes" that it isn't funny

[microchip.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah, I know what you mean.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

127.0.0.1 is so boring, seriously. Spice it up! 127.127.127.127 works great too! So do 127.123.45.6, 127.36.42.36, etc.

[tmercenary.livejournal.com]