If you’re stupid, you’ll get caught
If you run before you can walk, you’ll fall over and break a leg. If you fly before you can run, you’ll crash and break your neck. If you “hack” before you know how to do it, you will be caught and send to prison or juvenile court.
Perhaps I’m the wrong person to write this little warning, because I am most certainly not a hacker, nor do I have the ambition to become one. My presence on this blog is merely to write about a sector of computing that I know very little about so that I won’t get hacked. Again. However, I know enough of computing to be able to say what I said above.
If you’ll act stupidly, you will be caught. If you “hack”, you’ll go to jail. If you break into a system, deface a website, of perform a Denial of Service attack on someone, you will be hunted down and dragged out into the light. The legal system will drive a legal stake through your heart, and the crowds will cheer them on.
Why? Because unless you’re very good, and unless you’re at a level way beyond the stage where you have desire to deface a website, you’ll light up the net like a Christmas tree when you try something, and here’s why.
Anonymity on the net is just an illusion. There is always a point where you have to have a connection to your physical self and your exact location, and that point is vulnerable to attack. Even with an SSH connection to some other site, the connection has to go between your real IP and the SSH-account.
Spoofing your IP you say? Well, go ahead and try that, but remember that unless all you desire is to fire off a single indignant email, the internet is about two way communication. If the computer that should send you information doesn’t know your real adresss…? You figure it out.
If you piss of the wrong people, they’ll come after you through the net, and if they’re good enough they’ll find you. You simply can’t hide. If you could hide, you wouldn’t be reading this.
Don’t be stupid.
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