Re: cracking site - how do we shut it down?

[Sudipta Ghose]

Great! Earlier it was toxic wastes, banned medicines, scrapped materials,
and now its buggy software. Way to go "FIRST WORLD"! What's next? There is
still a lot of space in the dumping grounds.

BTW, most cracking/hacking sites I have seen, operate from US, or Europe.
The third world is too dumb for that, you know!

-Sugho-

>Date: 8 Jun 1999 11:50:30 -0700
>From: Alan Kennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: cracking site - how do we shut it down?
>
>Craig,
>
>I really don't want to stretch out this thread any further,
>but there's an interesting little strategy here,
>which is sort of semi-ethical.
>
>First you write a non-open-source copy of your software,
>and make it available from you directly with a certificate etc. etc.,
>which authenticates that it came from you etc.
>
>Then you plant large numbers of virus-laden versions of your software
>in third world countries on the net for hackers to copy and distribute.
>These could, say, do something nasty every 90 days.

The trick here is to create a _fake_ cracker site,
and play their game.