Comments on: Life After Anonymous – Interview with a Former Hacker

By: John Piccininni

John Piccininni — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:29:35 +0000

Good to see the advice on using good physical security, which is often overlooked in IT-centric circles.

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By: Joseph Enmanuel

Joseph Enmanuel — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:04:13 +0000

I’m interested about Anonymous, I watched the video on youtube on their operation FAcebook on Nov. 5, 2011

Back on the topic, I think hacker is still a hacker, there’s no former hacker, I guess and in my opinion, once a hacker, always a hacker ^_^

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By: the future

the future — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:11:58 +0000

There is no “after Anonymous”

Anonymous is constant.

Read the code.

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By: Joseph Ruscigno

Joseph Ruscigno — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:54:09 +0000

I always wondered about the difference between white hat and black hat hacking. Being an I.T. guy myself and seing the understaffing in the security dept., I often wondered, (and sometimes saw first hand), how truly vulnerable the company I was working at was.

Thank you so much for the insight and the article.

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By: Brian Yang

Brian Yang — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:27:02 +0000

Very interesting interview. I’d be curious if this guy had a questionable history on hacking as opposed to pure free speech activism.

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By: Mike - Ipswich Restaurants

Mike - Ipswich Restaurants — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:24:17 +0000

Great interview, the thing many people don’t realise is that not all hackers are out to cause harm and leak company information. The media is mostly responsible for making people think all hackers are like Lulzsec etc.

I’ve read transcripts from IRC of Lulzsec, those guys didn’t seem to have a big picture in mind. Just a “we are better than others because we can hack so and so” attitude and loved the media attention, which inevitably lead to their downfall.

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By: Julio Ruiz

Julio Ruiz — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:09:37 +0000

That is great information about the way of thinking of hackers.

Thanks for sharing this great interview.

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By: Taking Security Seriously Enough « Vipre News « VIPRE Security News

Taking Security Seriously Enough « Vipre News « VIPRE Security News — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:21:37 +0000

[...] The hacker group Anonymous has been in the news recently for a variety of reasons, including WikiLeaks, the HBGary breach, and other things. One recent item was a relatively high-profile defection from the organization, the departure of SparkyBlaze for a variety of reasons, including being “fed up with anon putting people’s data online and then claiming to be the big heroes.” Read More >> [...]

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:42:43 +0000

Very Powerful Interview and good Information transfer thanks a lot for this sharing! Patrick

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By: Felip

Felip — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:34:23 +0000

dear SparkyBlaze,

So you know everyone’s security is a mess, but clearly you don’t know much of the BS that goes on behind it. Your list of advice is also unrealistic. Obviously you do not think of the costs required to accomplish and maintain them, there are plenty of companies simply cannot afford to do all that. Sometimes you cannot even take a mission critical device offline for maintenance, so you can forget about updating it. The type of organizations that have the budget to implement all those is probably a three-letter-agency… but oh wait, even they couldn’t do it perfect, I guess you anonymous/lulzsec guys already proved that.

Good luck with your future security job, maybe one day you’ll realize you’re not really changing anything, and understand the bitterness of those who do this as a living. And then probably by the time you’re at that stage, there will be other young “hacktivists” saying you’re not doing your job right. Heh

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