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Comment by willvarfar | Hacker News Reader

Steve Gibson (grc.com) famously used chatroom credentials in a trojan he reverse-engineered to get in and chat with the bot maker.

And, infamously, got DDOSed for it.

Can't find the transcript now, which is a shame; I think he took it offline to let the intertubes cool down.

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http://www.crime-research.org/library/grcdos.pdf I think this is what you are talking about, really interesting read if I remember correctly.

>When those insecure and maliciously potent Windows XP machines are mated to high-bandwidth Internet connections, we are going to experience an escalation of Internet terrorism the likes of which has never been seen before.

He was right, too.

EDIT: That was an absolutely fascinating read. Thank you.

Very nice read, thanks for sharing

The Steve Gibson story was really interesting. He's a really cool guy, too. My botnet adventures happened around the same time as his, and I too was DDoS'd. We even exchanged a few e-mails about botnets and the script kiddie culture. Those were fun times.

Except when he went on record opposing the addition of raw-sockets to Windows XP saying it would help hackers and spell the end of the world. I remember clutching my Redhat CD, just in case raw sockets were banned ;-)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/25/steve_gibson_really_...

Ah, yeah, I remember that too now :)

And then you know they banned them with a nonremovable patch, right? http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2005/4

Who cares about XP? I was fearing legislation because his cry of wolf was heard far and wide.

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