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Epic's website & forums hacked
- Thread starter Meus Renaissance
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LQX
Member
Its just annoying to see the exact phrase popping up in every threads.narcosis219 said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=28488334&postcount=16
cpp_is_king
Member
Hex said:
Not sure what you mean. What part of them got hacked?
I can email my user database, post it on reddit, send it to everyone in the world, and it wouldn't make a lick of difference. That's the entire point.
If you mean someone wrote a tool that can brute force your master database password, then umm.. How about choosing a stronger master database password, and combining it with a file-based key as well to get up to 400+ bits of protection. Unless someone has written tools to brute-force 400+ bit encryption before the universe has ended, I'm not sure how keepass would have been hacked.
Edit: nvm, poster got confused with LastPass, which is a cloud-based password service.
DJ Crimson
Banned
LQX said:
Sarcasm flying right over head.
Did anyone notice that the quote said "hackers" in terms of "homebrew and hackers" working on Kinect hardware, i.e. actual non-malicious hardware hackers who make hobby projects like robots (not taking anyone's information, legal aside from potentially the DMCA)?commedieu said:
And then the article seems to apply that to hackers who break into servers and steal personal information, no hobby building/hacking involved as in the other sense.
Are people just equating the two, or did Cliff actually say something else that included malicious criminal hacker activity as well?
I'd say there's a big difference between working with a hacker who is making modifications to a game to add levels, or using Kinect hardware to do AI vision...and working with a hacker who breaks into credit card companies and steals personal information.
BAD ANALOGY TIME: Hiring someone to your locksmith company who has built (and taken apart) their own special door locks might be reasonable. Hiring someone to your locksmith company who has actually broken into people's houses and stolen stuff...not so reasonable.
NullPointer
Member
The biggest fail here is that people are hanging around in this thread instead of gawking at that Horde 2.0 footage.
Mein fuckin leiben.
Mein fuckin leiben.
NullPointer
Member
Depends how hot she is.Truespeed said:
I mean I thought I knew what to expect. Then I saw some Active Poisons thing, then something about buying command consoles and building bases, then fucking Mechs and auto turrets. Then Berzerkers and fucking mayhem. I think that's when I passed out.
I'm actually kind of pissed nobody let me know about it earlier.
Blizzard said:
Its a funny quote. To most like the federal gov etc... hacking is hacking, phreaking is phreaking. Much like the word exclusive means something else to others, im sure most can delude themselves into thinking otherwise. As far as chain of events and timing, its comedy gold imo. Its funny that Clifforton B is trying to be cool with the guys hacking the equipment, and Epics site gets hacked. Not sure whats so hard about that logic bus. Who is Tim claiming responsible for the attack? Hackers, no differentiation is being made saying "buh buh the mean kind!"
Zomba13
Member
To the anti-hacker people all hackers are the type that hack into servers, steal information and live alone in basements.Blizzard said:
Some people here don't seem to know the difference between hacking the Kinect or PS3 or Wii to do stuff like run homebrew and hackers who hack servers and break laws.
snoopeasystreet said:
Yes it is. It's not just video games CitiBank got hacked, too:
http://technorati.com/technology/article/thousands-of-citibank-on-line-credit/
It was last month and they've only disclosed the attack this week.
RPGCrazied
Member
Are people just saying they are getting hacked, just to say it? In the past week I can't tell you how many different places are saying they are getting hacked. It really only started after the whole PSN thing.
I hope its just not attention getting.
I hope its just not attention getting.
Danthrax said:
Oh, also, in the last three months the networks of Lockheed Martin and the customer email databases of a company that does marketing for Best Buy and Target have been hacked, according to an Associated Press story I'm putting in tomorrow's paper. (I'm at work.) So this isn't just a video game thing, even though it's easy for us to see it that way when that's the industry we follow the closest.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Hm, I have a program on my laptop that uses a Kinect to segment up to four people from the background in real time. I wonder if thats risky.Zomba13 said:
Brb, doorbell.
Jason's Ultimatum
Member
Dabookerman said:
Honestly, I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.
cpp_is_king
Member
syoaran said:
Fucking RSA got hacked, at this point I think all bets are off.
The ironic thing is they tried to play this off originally like "haha look how terrible Sony's security is we hacked them lol". Now all this other shit is going on, Sony doesn't really look so bad anymore. They look like everyone else.
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
Oh, shit. Man, this is getting worse and more ridiculous every time. Who's next?! Dammit, I feel like it'll be either EA, Ubisoft, or worst of all, GAF.
Hide yo wives, hide yo kids!
Hide yo wives, hide yo kids!
Always wanted to say that
Dacon said:
This is why we need a new Modern Warfare out, so it keeps these people occupied griefing on there instead. Black Ops not up to MW quality has failed us, these guys got bored!
I hope GAF is covered well. I don't want them getting my CC info from my platinum-GAF account.
