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starwars.com Cracked 51

Posted by justin++ from the s/hack/crack dept.
Jon Hedley writes "While the perpetrator remains unknown, Lucasfilm's Star Wars Web site was the victim of its first crack today. The vandalism consisted of a list of names, presumably those of the hacker's friends, according to Lucasfilm. News.com reports that there are 20 - 30 crack attempts a day to the site. " Geez. I'd think anyone smart enough to do this would be smart enough not to...
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  • Dumbasses (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    And cracking godhatesfags or kkk wouldn't be acting like a bunch of retarded immature babies? Who's immature? People who hack high-profiles sites for "glory", or people who hack sites with opinions they hate to mock, deride, and squelch them?

    Personally, I think that kkk, godhatesfags, nambla, and any number of other organizations are very in the wrong. But they believe in what they believe in. Mocking, deriding, and squelching them is only going to give them ammunition. Persecution only spreads bad beliefs.

    OTOH, if someone from KKK actually attacks a black, or if someone from GHF actually attacks a homosexual, or if someone from NAMBLA actually abuses a child, that is a different matter, and that is something that needs to be dealt with severely in a due process.

    But if you start deciding whose opinions merit mocking, deriding, and squelching, where do you draw the line? Suppose I am a "rabid" conservative and detest the ACLU? Or suppose I am a "rabid" liberal and detest the FRC?

    My conclusion is that all viewpoints must be tolerated, even if simultaneously extremely opposed. There are people on all sides.
  • I wonder what they consider a "hack attempt" such that there are 20 or 30 per day? Just curious...
  • ...sometimes it's nice to see something like this, though it was admittedly lame. I for one am ambivalent at best about the prequels, and find the constant press machine Lucasfilm is perpetuating to be rather, well, annoying at times.

    (What would be cooler to see would be Lucas getting smacked in the face with a creme pie, like what happened to that EU guy and Gates.)

    - A.P.

    (P.S.: Please don't reply with stuff like "you godless Starwars-hating asshole." I honestly don't give a rats ass if that's all you have to say. :)

    --


    "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad

  • Umm, I don't break into computer systems, yet I "whine" about Kevin Mitnick anyway. He's been held for nearly FOUR years without a trial, which is something I thought only happened in places like China. Then the Secret Service brings up some BS about him being a "threat to national security," which is also China-esque. And they won't let him have a walkman because they're afraid he'll use his mythical super-hacker powers to do something evil with it. If he's guilty, they should go ahead and convict him. If not, then release him. Either way, he should have had a trial more than three years ago.
  • Posted by OGL:

    Why do these morons keep doing this stuff? They waste their time cracking sites to be 3L33t, then they whine about Kevin Mitnick or some other bozo. Why don't they make themselves useful by cracking www.godhatesfags.com or www.kkk.com instead of acting like a bunch of retarded little immature babies?

    -W.W.
  • Posted by Charles Bronson:

    The report says this was a 'social-hack' (the first time I've ever heard that term) and that a password was leaked. So it was probably some dork with AOL who had a friend at LucasFilms or something.
  • Posted by Anhydrous Cowboy:

    I stood in two-hour lines to see the first three "films" ("the first film", "the second film") and all I can say is, THE KIDS OF TODAY SHOULD DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THE SEVENTIES. It's not reality, it's just someone else's sentimentality! It won't work for you!

    My first schoolyard fight was over Star Wars > Star Trek (you know, TOS -- the one with REAL science fiction writers raping Willy the Shake). If you spend more than twelve seconds a day thinking about the prequel, you need to drop acid and watch "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on a REALLY BIG TELEVISION. Go on, you know you want to.
  • Posted by OGL:

    In my opinion, yes, people who crack sites in order to stand up for what they believe in are less lame than those who simply want a billboard. Does this excuse the peoplke who hack Chinese government websites? No. Crackers will always be immature, because if they weren't they would be producing something useful with whatever inane talent they have managed to garner from their late-night zit-scratching.

    But let me say this: A group whose only purpose is to take away the rights of others is not worth my or anyone else's time listening to. Nothing can "give them ammunition" because even the idea of any of these freaks ever being slightly in the right are beyond the limits of any lucid imagination.

    But this was off-topic to begin with. My original idea was that crackers cannot make a point by thinking independantly. They can only regurgitate trendy things about Mitnick or whichever hot cracker issue of the week. Sorry if I was too subtle.

    -W.W.

  • Anyone have a URL of what the cracked site looked like?

    ChiefArcher
  • It sounds like some stooge got the password, hell the people that run the site probably had the same password for a year and a half, there was probably 20 peices of yellow sticky paper, 5 E-Mails, and an old cocktail napkin with the words;

    STAR WARS SITE CODE
    secret name - strwrs01
    secret code pass thingee - dfX8236

    ...floating all over Hollywood.

  • Yeah, why can't destructive, undisciplined miscreants be good guys? It just breaks my heart to see them get their lame little rocks off on sabotaging good sites instead of sabotaging bad sites.

    C'mon, get a clue. The nature of the Dark Side is such that its minions will always work for indiscriminate destruction and self-serving ends, not for good.

    "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge, never for attack."

    --Yoda
  • You guys call this a hack? I call this non-sense. I don't remember crackers in the early 90s and late 80s being this dumb.

    If you want to get your friends names distributed around town, here is my advice. Get a big sign spray paint your friends names on this big sign. Place sign in yard.

    I can understand the teenage rush of cracking sites. --I'm a teenager myself (almost out of my teens but o well). But defacing sites? Lame. What does this prove? You prove to the whole world how big your ego is and how lame you are. Wanna prove how big your nuts are? Start optimizing your code.

    Anyways, I hope sys. admins of the world start getting clues. I know the sysadmin @ Lucas Arts was good, but the other 35k websites out there... And these kids should all get prosicuted for breaking and entering as well as vandalism. A couple of weeks in juvinial hall would do these kids some good.

    Wake up world.
  • =) I'm just tired of seeing the old school hacker ethics going to waste. Thats all.

    /when I was your age, we acted like irresponsible little vermin, dammit! straighten out and fly right! let's see some carelessness and immaturity here, chop chop!\
    Heheh.. Is getting wasted good enough for you?

  • Say it out loud and type it with me, folks... fa/na/ta/ci/sm.

    Sorry. :) But yeah, I can't stand all the Star Wars hype on here. Remember when the trailer was going to be shown? There were so many articles on the *trailer*! And many reports of people going to a movie just to see the trailer, and then leaving when the Star Wars trailer was shown or when all the previews were over, whichever came first...

    What a waste of $10.
    ---
  • Here's one instance where the Dark side of the Force may be useful. Strangulation from afar would be just what these idiots deserve.
  • The s/// you had should be made a s///g and should be inserted into most industry journalist with a sledgehammer.

    Thank you.
  • Also called "wetware" A lot of hacks are done this way, rather than technical knowledge.

    Lando
  • Jeez.. THX1138... knowing that is the sign of a real geek.. :-)
    Too bad Lucas has the license plate.. I want it.. :-)
  • Hacking: Exploring an information system for the sake of knowledge.

    Cracking: Exploring an information system for the sake of personal gain (be it monetary (stealing passwords, credit card numbers, etc.), ego-boosting (as this was) or whatever)

    Excuse the nested parentheses.
  • If you are going to 'hack' something, the idea is to KEEP root, and not just f*** up a page.... that is sooooo lame.

    Talk about stupidity... try NOT to put yer name on it.........

    Try to hack some sites such as 2600.com, hack.com etc. :)
  • They don't choose a target and work on it, they scan huge sections of the internet (with nmap, expect, etc.) looking for weak systems and crack them. That is why the cracked sites are always some obscure site.

    Of course, starwars.com is an exception to this, but in general, that's why they don't crack sites like KKK.

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