WHAT DO YOU THINK OF A SCHOOL FOR COMPUTER HACKERS? IS IT THE MORAL EQUIVALENT O A SCHOOL TO TRAIN FOR BANK ROBBING?
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Washington (CNN) -- Police in China shut down what officials think was the largest training Web site for computer hackers, local media said.
The Black Hawk Safety Net offered lessons on cyber attacks and sold Trojan software, which allows outside access to a computer when remotely installed, media reports said.
Police arrested three people who ran the Web site and charged 100 to 200 yuan ($14 to $29) for lessons, the China Daily newspaper said.
Established in 2005, the site had recruited more than 12,000 paid and 170,000 free members and collected more than 7 million yuan ($1.02 million) in membership fees, the reports said.
Authorities were tipped off to its existence while investigating a cyber attack in 2007. Some suspects arrested in that case were members of Black Hawk.
The suspects in the Black Hawk case were arrested under a law revised last year in response to cyber crimes.
China says hackers caused 7.6 billion yuan ($1.02 billion) in losses in the country last year.
Last month, online search giant Google threatened to pull out of China, saying Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering.
China's information information technology ministry called the accusations of government involvement "groundless."
The Chinese government has said that the Google case is a business dispute and should not affect relations between Beijing and Washington.
Last month, foreign correspondents in at least two Chinese bureaus of news organizations had their Google e-mail accounts attacked, with e-mails forwarded to a mysterious address, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/08/china.hackers/index.html?hpt=Sbin
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It would be nice if you could learn howe to hack your way into places with the computer buty this is the same moral as if your were trained to Rob banks they are both illegal
ReplyDeleteOkay i have to admit that the hackers school is cool because i would like to earn how to hack but dont have the guts to because its illegal. At the same time hacking leads to many bad things like hacking to many computers that have access to many important things like government websites.
ReplyDeleteIt had to be the Asians huh?... But seriously though, thats pretty scary. Never keep your guard down.
ReplyDeletenot surprising at all. isnt it true that the best of the best get hired by big firms or even the governement? with this day in age, anything is possible.
ReplyDeleteOur government has the ability to access any bit of information they want. How do you think they came about that ability? They trained and hired computer specialists and hackers. It may sound corny, but with any power comes responsibility. We need to be careful who we let hack computers. Some may do it for good, such as the government agent who discovers a terrorist training facility in New York City, and some may use it for evil, such as the Chinese general who wants to discover our secrets and take down our government.
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