RIAA 0wn3d again. :)

[voidmain]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28817.html

RIAA defaced -again!
By Drew Cullen
Posted: 11/01/2003 at 22:06 GMT

Reader reports are flooding in that the RIAA.org has been defaced - again. At time of writing, the site appears to be down, And several readers have been kind enough to include screen grabs, showing that the front page today carried the following message.

RIAA - 0wn3d by.... ;p
oooh riaa want's to hack Filesharing Users / Servers ? - better lern to secure your own server...
Sorry Admin - had to deactivate ur accounts - they'll be reactivated after 2 hours

greetz : Rage_X, BRAiNBUG, SyzL0rd, BSJ, PsychoD + all the others who want to stay anonymous :]
wanna contact ? mailto:[email protected]

Underneath the greets, there is a list of RIAA 'recommended' file-sharing tools, such as KaZaA and eDonkey. Downloads from these sites are 'sponsored by www.riaa.org'.

The RIAA site has been hacked four times in recent months. Surely, they should have figured out how to put a stop to this by now?

[choasforages]

stop killing that site, it gives them an excuse for governemtn mandated DRM. but if you hack it, make sure it stays dead.

[voidmain]

I thought it was funny that they did exactly what the RIAA has capability to do legally. An eye for an eye so to speak.

[choasforages]

i know, but they are going to turn it into an excuse, like the D.C. sniper. but then agian, the golden rule only works when you take the time fo figure out that the ball is in your court

[xyle_one]

if they can't even protect their own servers, how can they expect to protect their music. Fuck them. They need to get their heads out of their asses. Music is an art, not an industry.

[cahult]

What does RIAA use for their website if they can be messed around with this easily, a toothbrush?

[voidmain]

I guess we can't expect their security to be that great. After all, the administrators are probably just a bunch of lawyers.  

[ January 13, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]

[Calum]

well i think it's very funny. shame there's no jpeg of it in its defaced condition in the article!

of course it is my opinion that if you can gain access to a computer, then you should be able to use it to the best of your capabilities if you want to.

that sounds radical but really all i am saying is that if admins want to keep their machines secure then *they* should do it, and not go around whining about 'hackers' all the time. my message to admins who allow their site to get broken into is 'hackers are not the problem - your poor admining is the problem'.

however i am sure the RIAA wouldn't agree with me on this point of ethics.  

[TheGreatPoo]

Calum: That doesn't sound radical at all.  If I want to pretect my car, I don't leave it unlocked and then go bitch to police about car theaves.  I lock it, put an alarm on it, LoJack, whatever I have to do to keep it from being stolen and the same concept should be used in the computing world.

Very good point Calum.

[rtgwbmsr]

quote:Originally posted by cahult:
What does RIAA use for their website if they can be messed around with this easily, a toothbrush?

Calum is right...but they are also running Windows 2000, which doesn't really help the security problem of bad admins.

[choasforages]

but these are sheeple they will  be talking to about it/*just a hypothetical example of abuse of media, sadly its been done though*/
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"those axis of evil terrorist pirates whoeverelsewehatetoday hacked our site 20 times with TCPA we would not have these policys"

sheeple cheering for **AA and others involved

"yay, no more hacker-terrorist-dissenting scums,"

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by The Muffin Man:


Calum is right...but they are also running Windows 2000, which doesn't really help the security problem of bad admins.

as i said, bad admining. bad admining doesn't just mean making bad decisions regarding system settings, it also goes right down to choice of hardware and software et c. if somebody chooses crap hardware or software (whether it was the site admins or not) then that is a poor administrative decision.

the whole 'evil hackers' thing pisses me off a lot. i agree totally, if you don't want to get broken into, lock your fucking door!
the situation reminds me of the current mobilisation for war, it's all blaming other people for our own inability to deal with our own insecurities.

here's a good quote for you:
Computer security is very much like home security - you can take as many security precautions as you like but if you leave windows open, sooner or later you'll get broken into. - (Calum 2003)