Yahoo DoS Attacker Raided

Yup... he\'s a moroan.

In online chats, CoolioÂ’s friends attributed the spate of denial-of-service attacks on major Web sites to him, and he led them to believe he was responsible. But he told ABCNEWS he was just joking. Here are excerpts from ABCNEWSÂ’ interview with Coolio and his father:

ABCNEWS: Would you consider yourself a hacker?
COOLIO: Um. (PAUSE) Yes, I would consider myself a hacker.
ABCNEWS: Did you reply to your friends when they said, “Uh, yeah, Coolio did it.”
COOLIO: Yeah. I joked that I had done it.
ABCNEWS: So you actually, in a way, admitted to it?
COOLIO: Yes. To my friends.
ABCNEWS: You admitted in the chat logs that you had taken Yahoo! down?
COOLIO: To my friends, yes.
ABCNEWS: And what did you tell them?
COOLIO: I was like, “Yeah, I did it.” But I was just joking.
COOLIOÂ’S FATHER: Kids. [LAUGHTER] Go on those IRC [Internet Relay-Chat] channels, you see a lot of that stuff happening.
ABCNEWS: They brag?
COOLIOÂ’S FATHER: They brag and lie about things theyÂ’ve never done. [LAUGHTER] Just like boys. And boys brag all the time. But theyÂ’ve never done nothing. [LAUGHTER]

Feast your eyes on the infamous cyber-terrorist Coolio!

http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/03/03/coolio0303_01.html

Cyber-virtual-l33t man! What a joke.

#65/66, until he uses his knowledge to work on something with a positive outcome, then any reference to him as a \"script-kiddie\" is warranted. Anyway I\'ve seen idiots that can\'t program shit and have zero computer knowledge do the same thing to other servers and routers. If a DoS flood is supposed to make someone look like a genius as you seem to be putting it, then I hate to be living in your world. The fact that he did this at all just shows how childish and immature he is. And maybe he didn\'t do this one, but he\'s obviously guilty of other crimes relevant to the l33t h4X0r bullshit that goes on.

Funny how kids could actually be making money using some of their knowledge of computers instead of putting it to waste hacking and flooding computers.

#63, They were called In Game Modules (IGMs).

Echelon Keyphrase Test Of The Day:

\"We are going to bomb the embassy tomorrow morning. Meet me at our agreed apon location at 6am sharp. Today, the embassy. Tomorrow, Bill Clinton\'s assassination!

Kill whitey!\"

:)

Saeger... speaking of money grubbing whores....... What was that visa number again?

#60, yeah, LORD had some holes. If course, the worst ones were always in those little \"add-on\" things you could install to enhance/expand LORD (I forget what they were called).

- Holesinswiss

I wonder if they had a search warrant, when the \"raided\" his house. The article didn\'t say anything about that. :(

#22, yupyup... Just look at what the money grubbing whores did to AltaVista.

#43 that was mitnick. Sun claimed that Kevin did damage in the millions, and they came to that figure by adding up all the development costs of the software he cracked...

The new bridge and 747 CS maps look nice. I hope they don\'t screw with the weapons too much in B6.

#28:

Those days aren\'t over JUST yet :)

Some people still fire up an ole\' game o\' BRE with their freinds on campus now and then... :D

Beev

They can CLAIM a larger loss.. making the case more important to the FEDS. I can\'t remember the case exactly.. but a hacker was on trial a couple years ago .. they estimated that he did like ... $22 million dollars worth of damage. Someone did some fact checking, and it came up to be around a couple thousand.

L.O.R.D!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMNIT
How could I forget that game!? DAMN IT ROCKED!

muhaha, and that little trick I had going where I bought and sold children for heaps of XP ;)

A little bit back on the subject of the article, I\'ve always wondered how corporations can claim these MASSIVE losses for just a few hours of downtime ...

\"The Web sites that fell victim to the February attacks claimed several million dollars in lost revenue and advertising income.\" -cnn.com

And even if we give them some slack that for those hours they lost a good chunk of money, people who shop on the web understand (for the most part) that there are outtages now and then and that they just have to try again in a few hours or come back tomorrow.

Even if they DIDN\'T understand that concept, it\'s been all over the news so @(%%!# much, how could anyone not know what\'s going on?

- Holesinswiss

#36, exactly. Midnight was a horrible time to try to log on. :) I wrote a basketball door game, but I never was able to finish the statistics (I used real NBA stats) so I never public released it. It was pretty fun - based off a text basketball game I saw for the Apple IIe (can\'t remember the name of it).

#35, that\'s cool! Seth Able - a legend in his own right. LORD was pretty ubiquitous. Just about every single board that was run by more than a 10-year-old who got a computer for Christmas had LORD (be it legitimately or not). There was an entire culture there.

- Holesinswiss

heh heh... Dink Smallwood was fricking hilarious ;) very cool game :)

Speaking of Raided. When the hell did this get posted? Reminds me of Jr. High and long bus trips.

http://www.3dshack.com/cgi-bin/pic.cgi?iotd/prom.jpg

you\'d play your 15minute turn, logout at like 11:59, and everyone would race to be the first to call after 12:00 so they could play their turn first ;) Usurper, LORD, Falcon\'s Eye, Barren Realms, Planets, Forts, Exitilus (personal favourite).. heck, I even wrote one myself that had it\'s own scripting language (people could write their own adventures and plug them into my game, sorta like exitilus) and accepted MODS and external addons...

LORD is the TRUE spiritual predassesor (sp?) to Quake and the mod community.

bbs.mircx.com used to have some door games you could play on their site.. its down for a bit tho.

The guy who made L.O.R.D. .. Seth Able (Robinson) lives in my city.. ive met him a bunch of times too. He made around $200,000 off that game.. he then sold it to another company for $200,000 more. Not too shabby!

He used to be a part-owner in a network gaming center called Nexgen (http://www.nexgengaming.com) .. they charge $6 an hour to play on their 20 computer LAN. Seth quit cause the other people working there were playing games more than actually running the business..

Seth Able now makes DeerHunter clones for a small software group here in Oregon, Electronics Boutique carries their lil games i think.

He made L.O.R.D. II .. which kinda sucked. And then made an RPG called DINK, which was ok .. his production group RTSoft is still running (www.rtsoft.com)