So, you want to be a hacker?

[mandy]

10 reasons why the Black Hats have us outgunned...

Here they are:

  6. There are botnets to rent.

Don't tell me, let me guess. You've got a great scheme in mind to flood the world with a particular kind of spam and it's bound to pay off. But you just don't have the computer power you need. Let me introduce you to an Asian friend of mind who's been established in the Black Hat trade for a year or two. He repeatedly floods the internet with Trojan viruses to continuously assemble and grow a botnet. He has to keep on doing it because every now and then PCs get cleaned and fall out of the net and anyway the bigger the botnet the more the commercial opportunity. My friend will rent you a portion of his botnet for 20 cents per PC per day (roughly current rates) and he'll throw in a whole database of email addresses too. He thinks of himself as an Internet Service Provider...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/13/black_hat_list/

[rose]

Sarcasm is always good.  ;D