Inside the Billion-Dollar Hacker Club 58
An anonymous reader writes "Here's an inside look at the personal successes of the elite hacking group "w00w00". From the article: 'For this group of old friends, assembled for an impromptu reunion, the venue would feel familiar: an online chat room running on a secure private server. Each were former members of the elite hacking group "w00w00" and they had reconvened that afternoon to celebrate and share in the success of one of their own. In some ways it was just like old times. But rather than success being the discovery of a new software exploit or penetration of a computer network, this was something more extraordinary. One of the group's former members had just sold their company for $19 billion dollars."
Link in summary is ballsed... (Score:1)
Not much to add...
The link in the summary is broken.
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Correction : It's the guy who just sold everybody's "contacts list" to Facebook for $19billion.
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And everyone cheered
the missing url (Score:5, Informative)
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/... [techcrunch.com]
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Damn, those w00w00 guys are good
There were a lot of groups that were equally great or even greater.
Back then sky is the limit and there were an endless supply of enthusiasm.
From Blackhat research to Whitehat to every hue of color in between, a lot of guys/kids were hopping from one chatroom into another, opening up multiple chatrooms and participating on all of them all under one screen is not uncommon.
THat was before them Moslems brought down the WTC which gave the NSA and all the other spooks their legitimate claim to spy on everyone.
In
That doesn't sound much like hackers (Score:2)
Only like the criminals the news likes to call hackers.
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Only like the criminals the news likes to call hackers.
Blurred lines that requires the clarity of ethics to make sense.
I submit the thought that there are more than one type of 'hackers'. In a classroom or in a setting where the effects can be reversed, then hackers can be beneficial, ala the recent article Teach hacking in high school. [slashdot.org] Even Mitnick's extreme actions had the benefits of highlighting the ineffectual.
But this thought has been common. Affecting the hacker's morality with something like the Association of Computing Machinery's Code of Ethics [acm.org] is
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Strike out 1.5 and I'll buy in. 1.6 is enough.
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What does your dictionary say? Here's mine:
hacker (n.) a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.
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You're too young (at least here)...
Who Who? (Score:1)
Fuck these grey beards - don't they know the internet belongs to facebook and twitter now?
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19 billion? (Score:2)
I think the article must have gotten it wrong.. I've heard several other places that WhatsApp sold for 16 billion.
I know it may not seem like much.. but, personally, I consider a $3 billion discrepancy to be something.
Re:19 billion? (Score:5, Informative)
The other 3 billion is for retention bonuses http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/... [techcrunch.com]
Re:19 billion? (Score:4, Funny)
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I feel kinda bad for getting this.
I'm just going to imagine that you mean that the guys are big fat slobs with saggy manmaries, and Angelina is a fit young woman with perky breasts. Yes that's it.
That's part of it, but it was also a shitty, obnoxious 'joke' about Jolie's preventive double mastectomy.
ooh such mystery (Score:2)
Orly? Which one was it?
w00tw00t? (Score:1, Interesting)
140224 042320 69.174.245.163 - 69.174.245.163
140226 084433 64.15.159.21 - 64.15.159.21
140226 210354 122.49.0.220 - 122.49.0.220
140301 232858 46.105.100.220 - ns382685.ovh.net
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no, a simple google will reveal the cause of these.
perhaps you should look for a new job...
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w00w00 startup (Score:1)
Time for another WhatsApp post! (Score:2)
They haven't been in the press enough recently...
anyone can be a *illionaire (Score:2, Informative)
I hate it when highly speculative and non liquid asset classes are reported in the media as cash. It shows genuine lack of good faith to do this.
By this metric, anyone can be a *illionaire. Just form your own company, then come up with ridiculous IP and have your company bond the IP (with UCC statement) to a "value" that you and your company agree upon! You can be a billionaire or whatever you like. What's that you say? Such shenanigans is acting in bad faith and nobody in their right mind would give y
Next news item (Score:5, Funny)
Inside the Billion Dollar Kindergarten - One of the kindergartens former students recently sold their company for $19B. ...
Inside the Billion Dollar High School - A former student recently sold their company for $19B.
No time for Kindergarten (Score:1)
Inside the Billion Dollar Kindergarten - One of the kindergartens former students recently sold their company for $19B. ...
Inside the Billion Dollar High School - A former student recently sold their company for $19B.
Nobody who made a billion dollars ever completed Kindergarten. They all drop out and start their own firms early. If you're in Kindergarten you're doing it wrong.
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"THE" billion dollar hacker club? (Score:2)
"THE" billion dollar hacker club? Seems to me there are several of those.
Two instances just from the public record: First there's the Homebrew Computer Club, founded in '73, which includes a number of leading lights in the Silicon Valley part of the industry, including Jobs and Woz. (Apple alone has WhatsApp beat by a factor of neary 25, as of today's close.) Then there's the (invitation-only) Hackers Conference, Founded by in '84, whose membership may not have as high a percentage of people who made bi
In other news.... (Score:2)
Thousands of hacker wannabes from the 90s haven't done much of anything with their lives, and are working in boring ass jobs with normal lives.