Lone Iranian Claims Credit For Comodo Hack 72
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nk497 writes "A boastful Iranian hacker has claimed sole responsibility for the Comodo security certificate attack, saying it had nothing to do with his government. The 21-year-old claimed via a note on PasteBin, 'I'm not a group of hacker, I'm single hacker with experience of 1,000 hackers.' While some researchers believed his claims, saying the media had accepted Comodo's claims that the attack was from the Iranian government too easily, others said it was impossible to tell if the hacker was real, or a PR move by Iran."
Of course it's a PR move (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean come on, really?
'I'm not a group of hacker, I'm single hacker with experience of 1,000 hackers.'
Sounds just like the Iraqi Information Minister or Kim Jong Il. "Oh no no no! I not a group or government no! I am super skilled hacker with skill of 1000 men. I can play 18 rounds of golf in 18 shots by getting 18 hole in one. Yes! I just that good!"
Re:I am sorry. (Score:2, Insightful)
I read all of his Pastie's.
If you want a laugh, read them.
A lot of egotistical shit talk from a guy who doesn't realize RSA simply cannot be "cracked". It's impossible.
If you had any common sense, you would use your "hacks" on the actual people who have/had access to having CR's resigned.
Also, let's not just throw around "symmetric" and "asymmetric" when dealing with encryption and hashing, it just makes you look dumb.
And working on a way to derive two prime factors of a number is ridiculous, you won't ever accomplish it. Simply because we are dealing with numbers larger than the processing ability of most computers that can be accessed (spare some), and the fact that primality tests aren't something you can simply "write".
I thought I had an epiphany in math class a few weeks ago (pre-calc is boring as fuck, and my Ti-84 only can do so much, even with asm programmin), and realized that if you took any number, you can first run it against basic tests and tests of division. Even numbers out, numbers whom digits add up to a multiple of 3 are out, etc. After that, you are fucked.
RSA is secure. Period. It's implementation can only be *so* secure.
And lol, if you want to do something actually epic, and worth bragging about, steal the private RSA key and code yourself a resigner. Until then, stop acting like you did anything tremendously amazing.
This is all >implying this kid isn't just frontin.
-Thilo The "Hax"
Are you talking about yourself? You're only in high school. The extent of your formal math knowledge is beneath basic calculus. Shut up and get over yourself.