darkc0de back in action

As you all know I am doing research on l33t hackers, I just chase them, not for any bad reasons but yes they fascinate me. I can say I am in love with them. Oh! The lethal group, darkc0de came back in action. AS usual d3hydr8 surprised me by coming in news with something surprising big. This is what we all know him for. Some of the oldest member of darkc0de are d3hydr8, beenu, sin33r,baltazar, r45c4l, p47r1ck, rausron, j4ck h4ck3r. The team of darkc0de was famous and known all over the underground communities for their codes and mastery in SQL Injection. The team had hacked some of the biggest sites like ESET, Kaspersky, Various NASA domains, PayPal etc etc. The famous Face book hack, the credit of which inj3ct0rs are claiming is originally the work of darkc0de guys only. And if I am not wrong it was done by p47r1ck. The codes which these guys have written are now used at many places like a very famous tool by beenu “Malware Analyser”. There is one more code which is included in bt4 also “Joomscan” was originally made by beenu and rsauron. They were the damn good coder, python lover and a master of SQL Inj.

Since so long I am here; there was a lode of disagreement from various hackers. They never liked me doing research on them, but unfortunately that disagreement came from all defacers, who are not even worth calling hackers. I used to think that a real hacker loves anonymity, and does his work quite silently.

The hackers on facebook compelled me to change the mind set. They are self boasting, abusive, self promoters, snobbish and superficial. There are hundreds of groups amongst themselves. Jealous and ego is the biggest irony amongst these people.the passion for hacking,coding,exploite writing is almost dead. they feel great just by defacing the sites and attacking the santity of some innocent.

There were quite a few groups like inj3ct0rs, ICW, PCA, darkc0de, snake and recently antisec, anonymous has depth in them. I keep on digging about them; unfortunately these real heroes are lost somewhere.

The best part of the darkc0de was truly a team of real time hackers from all over the world, India, US, Georgia, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, UK, China, Turkey, KSA and many more places. Most of the hackers were from middle class family and most of the time they had to support themselves as well as their family too.

There was a time the group called antisec created deterrence amongst hackers and dominated many such groups like daekc0de, milw0rm and inj3ct0rs. During that period even darkc0de was also one of their prime targets. The reason for rivalry was the hackers and exploit writers. Their exploits used to be published over milw0rm. On an average every day at least an exploit used to come over milw0rm by the darkc0de members. One more reason why antisec was against darkc0de was the tools and codes written by the darkc0de team.

But the best part was that darkc0de developed very good relations with almost all the other active forums and groups and they all used to support these guys. But anyways ddos was always a big problem for darkc0de. Later on due to the busy schedule of the core team members and the over crowd of kiddies bee lining for their exploits and tools got the hacker in chaos. Many of them were even got arrested by FBI, legal issues were on rise and thus the core team faded away. After a long time today they gave the reason for excitement.

Seeing d3 again today and that too in action is a big kick and I am sure just like me other guys will be excited too.

Let us meet again on the irc #darkc0de and let’s begin something new

Darkness will never Forsake me

Welcome guys……… keep rocking

A hacker is an aesthete?

A ``computer hacker,'' is someone who lives and breathes computers, who knows all about computers, who can get a computer to do anything. Equally important, though, is the hacker's attitude. Computer programming must be a hobby, something done for fun, not out of a sense of duty or for the money. (It's okay to make money, but that can't be the reason for hacking.) In one sense it's silly to argue about the ``true'' meaning of a word. A word means whatever people use it to mean.
The concept of hacking entered the computer culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s. Popular opinion at IT posited that there are two kinds of students, tools and hackers. A ``tool'' is someone who attends class regularly, is always to be found in the library when no class is meeting, and gets straight As.

A ``hacker'' is the opposite: someone who never goes to class, who in fact sleeps all day, and who spends the night pursuing recreational activities rather than studying. There was thought to be no middle ground. What does this have to do with computers? Originally, nothing but there are standards for success as a hacker, just as grades form a standard for success as a tool. The true hacker can't just sit around all night; he must pursue some hobby with dedication and flair. It can be telephones, or railroads (model, real, or both), or science fiction fandom, or ham radio, or broadcast radio. It can be more than one of these. Or it can be computers. the word ``hacker'' is generally used among IT students to refer not to computer hackers but to building hackers, people who explore roofs and tunnels where they're not supposed to be.

There are specialties within computer hacking. An algorithm hacker knows all about the best algorithm for any problem. A system hacker knows about designing and maintaining operating systems. And a ``password hacker'' knows how to find out someone else's password. Someone who sets out to crack the security of a system for financial gain is not a hacker at all. It's not that a hacker can't be a thief, but a hacker can't be a professional thief. A hacker must be fundamentally an amateur, even though hackers can get paid for their expertise. A password hacker whose primary interest is in learning how the system works doesn't therefore necessarily refrain from stealing information or services, but someone whose primary interest is in stealing isn't a hacker. It's a matter of emphasis.

Throughout most of the history of the human race, right and wrong were relatively easy concepts. Each person was born into a particular social role, in a particular society, and what to do in any situation was part of the traditional meaning of the role. This social destiny was backed up by the authority of community or state. Each person makes free, autonomous choices, unfettered by outside authority, and yet each person is compelled by the demands of rationality to accept ethical principle of a hacker. Disputed questions of ethics, like abortion, are debated as if they were questions of fact, subject to rational proof. The choice between the ethical and the aesthetic is not the choice between good and evil, it is the choice whether or not to choose in terms of good and evil. At the heart of the aesthetic way of life, it is the attempt to lose the self in the immediacy of present experience. The life of a true hacker is episodic, rather than planned. Hackers create ``hacks.'' A hack can be anything from a practical joke to a brilliant new computer program. But whatever it is, a good hack must be aesthetically perfect. Ethical Hacking, this phrase is very misleading. What he has discovered is the Hacker Aesthetic, the standards for art criticism of hacks.

In India most of the hackers are mostly undergraduates, in their late teens or early twenties. The aesthetic viewpoint is quite appropriate to people of that age. An epic tale of passionate love between 20-year-olds can be very moving. A tale of passionate love between 40-year-olds is more likely to be comic. To embrace the aesthetic life is not to embrace evil; hackers need not be enemies of society. They are young and immature, and should be protected for their own sake as well as ours. In practical terms, the problem of providing moral education to hackers is the same as the problem of moral education in general. Real people are not wholly ethical or wholly aesthetic; they shift from one viewpoint to another.

Some tasks in moral education are to raise the self-awareness of the young, to encourage their developing ethical viewpoint, and to point out gently and lovingly the situations in which their aesthetic impulses work against their ethical standard.
The term hacker, most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant. There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest net experiments. The members of this culture originated the term hacker. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker.
The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music actually; you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers recognize these kindred spirits elsewhere and may call them hackers too and some claim that the hacker nature is really independent of the particular medium the hacker works in. But in the rest of this document we will focus on the skills and attitudes of software hackers, and the traditions of the shared culture that originated the term hacker.

There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren't. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreasking the phone system. Real hackers call these people are crackers and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and object that being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word ‘hacker” to describe crackers; this irritates real hackers no end.

The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.