[BBB]

dom, on Nov 9 2004, 04:30 PM, said:

You do?!
Ok, you're a twit.
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a ''more than'' succesful twit, at that

[BBB]

wrongmove, on Nov 9 2004, 04:26 PM, said:

Five PMs ?? I never get any from BBB. Perhaps my insults are not strong enough !! 
ps. BBB only joking - I really don't want any of that misogynistic, homophobic spam. 
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i don't hate woman or gays. freak

[dom]

BBB, on Nov 9 2004, 05:31 PM, said:

a ''more than'' succesful twit, at that 
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If you say so.

[Dr Hanibal Lecter]

What about bears???

ta ta

H

[dom]

BBB, on Nov 9 2004, 05:33 PM, said:

i don't hate woman or gays. freak 
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Behold, the power of BBB's vocabulary!

[wtc]

With most ISP's that dynamically allocate IP addresses you will get an address from a range dependant upon location, your IP address will ALWAYS be in this range. Truly dynamic IP's are becoming less and less common in favour of static IP's or dynamic IP's within a very narrow band.

Regardless, whatever IP address you have allocated at whatever time is logged by the ISP and this information can be requested from the ISP by webmasters in order to prevent troublemakers. Even posting offensive language on a forum board is enough for a lot of ISP's to terminate your service, if a webmaster complains about it, they simply can't be bothered with the hassle of ppl complaining about their users.

[dom]

BBB, on Nov 9 2004, 05:33 PM, said:

i don't hate woman or gays. freak 
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You hate freaks.

[Dilemma]

Good riddance to him anyway. The guy was a total moron

[BBB]

dom, on Nov 9 2004, 04:37 PM, said:

Behold, the power of BBB's vocabulary!
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i do manage to stretch it to more than one line sometimes DOM. if you read my posts i even manage the odd......wait for it..........paragraph

look it up in the dictionary, and you could even try and replicate one. i must warn you however, you will have to learn how to master beyond a sentence

[wtc]

That depends on how good the hackers are Charlie, if they are good then they are like ghosts and you will never find them(unless you work for the CIA ).

Being attacked by a hacker and producing an IP address from this attack doesn't guarentee that is the IP address of the person doing the attack. Good hackers get away with what they do because they are near untraceable and they do this by using a technique called bouncing.

What this means is they will gain access to an unprotected system and then use that system to gain access to another system and then use that to gain access to yet another system and so on. The final target could be 20 links down the chain and the IP address the target gets is usually that of the last computer the hacker bounced off, not the hackers computer. Trying to trace the actual culprit back along the chain is usually extremely difficult, especially if they are good at what they do.

This could be what is happening to you. Its a general misconception that hackers seek to gain access to the desktops of laymen around the world, they don't, theres no challenge there and no real reason for them to try and gain entry. All those port scans and probes are likely hackers looking for systems to bounce off, rather than hacking you they are actually using you to hack someone else :s Crazy world the information super highway

If you want a serious piece of advice, never try and hit back at a real hacker(not talking about the script kiddies who netsend some b*llocks to your desktop) as its like a red rag to a bull and a lot of them will f*ck your system up for it(they are very elitist).

I used to IRC with a group of hackers(one of them was in my gaming clan so met them that way), strange guys, uber geeks if you will. They made a habit of hacking into websites and then contacting the site and telling them how they hacked into it. They then insisted their group name be acknowledged(security provided by yada yada) on the site or next time they come back they won't be doing it to prove a point. Strange guys, can't say I subscribed to their mindset personally but that one guy was a pretty mean shot with an MP40 and I didn't wanna get on the wrong side of them....

[zzg113]

They sound a bit stupid WTC. Why not hack into a bank or something where you could get money? Seems to a bit pointless to me to hack someone and then not take advantage of that ability. If I was that good at hacking I would hack a bank, wire transer £5million to an untraceable account in Switzerland and live a life of luxury.

[Sledgehead]

wtc, on Nov 9 2004, 05:21 PM, said:

That depends on how good the hackers are Charlie, if they are good then they are like ghosts and you will never find them(unless you work for the CIA ).
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With the amount of WAPs around it isn't hard to ghost - in such cases you don't even need to break in to the ghosting proxy. Tell me if I'm wrong but most hackers who get caught do so because they just can't help bragging about their exploits. Confronted with a copper in an interview room saying "just how clever do you have to be to do this stuff" and they get an immediate bout of verbal diaorehea. The guys who do it for commercial / financial gain (the real problem makers) are too satisfied with their growing stash to worry about peer acceptance. I believe the latter class are practically untouchable.