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Children of Syn
Monday, February 12th, 2007 by Admiral_CoeymanWhat is it with all the syn-flooding on the Internet these days? It’s the electronic equivalent of throwing toilet paper into somebody’s trees. There is nothing to be gained from this malicious act. Anybody can do it. Is there a point to it?Back in my time, hackers had ethics. That does sound strange, doesn’t it. Being a hacker means that you worked on a computer on your own time. You really had to know what you were doing when you had to write all your own code. With all the kits out there we’ve come to live in a world where you can claim to be a high level cracker without even knowing how to read shell code. None of this makes you impressive.One of the old codes was never to assault the little guy. You did not cause damage just because you felt like it. Syn-flooding home broadband connections, stealing credit card numbers and defacing websites does not take a hacker; it takes a thief. Is this what we’ve come to; piracy on the electronic seas?
In an information based world, anything that threatens the flow of information threatens the backbone of civilization itself. Over time, I can see this childish form of lawlessness bringing about capital punishment for computer crimes. Just the weight of ‘email marketing’ has compromised the utility of some parts of the Internet. Do you remember the network slowdown caused by some recent internet worms?
Are you sure that your ‘outlaw antics’ make you more than a stooge of Big Brother? Governments have always come to lust after control of their serfs’ lives. Now that the free world has become convinced that our founding fathers did not mean for the Church to interfere with the proper worship of the state, all it takes is a few problems for governments to usurp more power from the people. I believe that Ronald Reagan said that the scariest words in the English Language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Do not get me wrong. I did not shed a tear when an associate of mine shut down a foreign server that hosted child port. International servers are beyond local law. This was an act of protecting the little guy from harm. It is not an excuse, but an act that he was ready to accept responsibility for.
Maybe “everybody was a lamer before becoming elite.” Shouldn’t we, at least, have an admission standard? “Lamer is a starting point, not a destination.” The fact that all worlds have rules is the basis of modern science and technology. If you cannot understand that, are you mature enough to have the keys to the world?
