DigitalReign Feature: You've Been Hacked

You've Been Hacked

I don't quite know how to begin this post. As some of you know, last week was an eventful one for a few rather adventurous young people and a popular ISP service. Apparently, two dip-shits ... *ahem* ... misunderstood youths decided it was a good idea to hack Comcast last Wednesday evening, seize control of the DNS and redirect traffic to meaningless locations for a few hours while displaying the message "KRYOGENICS Defiant and EBK RoXed Comcast." The culprits even tried to warn their victim and were not taken seriously. I guess that wasn't the best move on Comcast's part huh?

Normally, news like this wouldn't even rate a mention here, but while I was sitting here pondering a new post, I received an email from a rather confused gentleman (named Jim) accusing me of spamming his server. He then went on to suggest that if I wasn't the culprit, I was at least guilty of not protecting myself because the Comcast hack allowed people to gain control of many domains and cause his wife to complain about all the spam in her mailbox.

Of course, after I spent some time bitch-slapping ... I mean convincing him that I could not possibly have been involved in "causing his wife's frustration", and that he was mistaken in his belief that I was incapable of controlling traffic across my servers, he just continued to suggest that I was stupid and that simply pissed me off.

Those of you that visit often know that I am a fair guy, but after someone has gone off the deep end and suggested that I would have a computer "shoved up my ass" if I don't get my IT under control ... let's just say that a "religious conversation" was necessary with said accuser.

Since this individual has basically threatened me and lumped me in with these rather unsavory characters who actually gave an interview to Wired Magazine, I felt it was necessary to make it very clear to the gentleman that I was not at all malicious, but in fact a fine, upstanding member of society. After demonstrating that I have TOTAL control of the many domains that I own, I went the extra step of helping him identify the culprits and get him the contact information for said offender(s).

Editor's Note: It would be unfair of me to indicate exactly HOW I was able to locate the individual so quickly, or to reveal the street address or contact information for Shaun Schellhammer. Whoops ... I guess this should serve as a warning for people who do stupid shit and then get me threatened by other morons. Yes ... that would be YOU Jim.

Bottom line, Jim feels relieved and better about his fellow man now. Shaun is about to have a bad week because I'm going to be sure he hears from a few of my friends. And for once, I think I have the perfect motivation to provide some regular communication to my new friend Jim. Since making a rather arrogant comment about the high quality junk-filter he now employs, I think that gives me a perfect incentive to help him test the quality of his investment. Not that I intend to send malicious or useless spam to his mailbox, but cheerful greetings and details of ways he could discover a higher lightness of being. Buckle up buddy. You're going to hearing from me quite regularly. At least until you acknowledge that it is not ME who needs to get his IT under control.