When I was in middle/highschool -- late 90's-03 -- using a mix of home-made tools, scripts I tweaked, some trojans I hex edited to make work for me...I had almost all of my schools home computers logging into an IRC room where I could use them to DoS attack and easily knock off (especially before few had broadband) anyone -- all my infected IRC clients could also upload, often around firewall/virus protection varying degrees of other trojans that let me print on their computers, watch them on webcams, open their cd-roms... I was young, told most people and really didn't abuse it: and finally learned 'hackers make things, crackers break things' -- but the point is: yes this isn't a surprise, and in many cases the sophistication is not even too deep, but ya like many said: we need this to keep being published so the open community as a whole can understand, and circumvent if need be.