Thu 29 Jun 2006
The Knowledge
Posted by RHM under ezboard
[3] Comments
You know, one of things that keeps popping up in my mind when I think of the ezboard “hacking” incident – aka the Great ezBoard Disaster of 2005 – and the authentication hack noted here is a question.
If your basic, common or garden ex-ezboard user can find out that a hack has taken place and trace the source of that hack, why can’t ezboard, Inc. combined with the technical skills and expertise of the FBI manage to do likewise after more than a year?
I’d ask a different even more mind-boggling question: why technical people working at ezboard with all the skills needed to run the world’s “largest messageboard network” wouldn’t just use a decent proxy before snooping into other boards or servers?
Arrogance? Hubris? Or were they completely unaware of what they’re up to?
Oh I’m quite sure that whoever was snooping around knew exactly what they were doing and no doubt assumed they wouldn’t be caught and exposed.
In assuming they wouldn’t be caught they apparently didn’t really know what they were doing, or even why. Like headless chickens
But this makes perfect sense looking at average competence level that ezboard has emanated over the last two years.
All in all it smells of desperate acts.