Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Hacking...scary stuff

Todays class was interesting wasn't it? I had no idea there was such a thing as White hat hackers and Black hat hackers, i actually just assumed that all forms of hacking were bad! I think that it just comes from the generalization that all hackers sit in the dark in their bedrooms trying to create trouble (like the video showed).
Last year actually my 13 year old sister was trying to log onto her Bebo account and found it wouldn't accept her password. Since her profile wasn't private she was able to just type in her www address to see it and it turned out that someone had taken over her profile and changed the template to the little bebo sign having devil horns coming out of it and it saying "HAHAH your profile has been hacked, it serves you right for using Bebo!!" What was the point of this like actually what does the person that was doing this get out of it? They have just managed to ruin a 13 year olds Bebo, big accomplishment there!

2 comments:

sophie said...

ha i just wrote another blog about the reading...im turning into quite the blogger geek!!ha i also made a refrence to your sisters bebo incident...very crafty i thought!!

Daniel S. said...

Haha Lauren my little sister had this happen too. I remember because she made a especially big deal about it. Must be quite common.