Question 1: Why might the makers of the movie hackers pretend their site was hacked? What evidence do they provide to show this is not true? To promote the movie. Letters from the real hackers.
Question 2: What are three changes the hacker made compared to the original? The picture, it was from defcom, and the information is changed.
Question 3: Did the hacker like the movie “Hackers”? Why or why not? I don’t think the hackers liked the movie because if they would of liked it they wouldn’t of have hacked the site.
Question 4: What is DefCon?
The premiere hacker conference.
Question 5: Look at the handout “Part One, The Basics, name three rules of “ethical hackers” he violated. II. Do not alter any system files. Do not intentionally damage *any* system. Do not leave your (or anyone else's) real name, real handle, or real phone number on any system that you access illegally.
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6: What are two reasons the hacker gives for hacking the site? Can you
think of another possibility? There was
no malice intended, I just got carried away and it was in poor taste and went
entirely too far. They wanted to send out a message to everybody that they can
hack in to the hackers website.
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7: The hacker apologizes for the hack. What does he say were his true
reasons for the hack? He got carried away he was curios he could do it.
Question 8: Did he have help or work alone?
he worked alone.
Question 9: How does he try to make up for his hack?
He offered some ways to secure you machines against any further intrusions.
Question 10: Is the tone of the letter what one would expect from a hacker? How does it compare to the other language he uses?
That letter is fake hackers do not talk that way that sounds like someone that is making it up.
Question 11: What does he say real hackers are?
He says, Hackers the new action adventure movie from those idiots in Hollywood, takes you inside a world where there's no plot or creative thought, there's only boring rehashed ideas.
Question 12: How does he show he is the real hacker?
Because he hacked in the website and changed everything in the website.
Question 13: What does he fear might happen to him as a result of his hack? He might go to jail for a prank he was just trying to do.
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16: According to this page, what sort of person is a typical Cracker? there crackers are young teenage punks who are very
malicious and seek to get their kicks from destroying or alternating data on a
system.
Question 17: What is a hacker, according to this page? is an individual who yearns for knowledge.
Question 18: What sorts of things can a hacker do to a site? The hacker takes much delight in exploring the system from the outside/inside searching vigorously for misconfigurations, bugs, and holes in the operating system that would allow them to break into a machine.
Question 19: What sorts of things are against “Hacker Ethics”?
Question 20: Why do they do it, according to this page.
Question 21: Who is the author? Is he a “Gray hat” or “Black Hat” hacker? It is candyman and he is a black hat.
Question 22: The links to “Other Hacker Sites” such as Phrack Magazine, and 2600 are blocked. Why are the blocked? There inerpropiate they cant be shown they took them off the internet.
Question 23: Are any of the hacking activities described on this page legal? All of them are .
Question 24: What potential harm can be caused to a company by a hacker altering their web page?destroying there webpage but the company gets more attention from viewers.
Question 25: Should “Gray Hat” hacking be illegal? Yes because even though they don’t cuase harm there still hacking and looking through stuff.
Question 26: Was the site really hacked, in your opinion, or is it a publicity stunt by MGM? It was a stunt by mgm they did it to get more viewers on their page.