Hacking Gibsons: Password Enhanced Nonce Integrity Schemes
A sketch commission I bought from
mystiqe last night during her commission stream.
Please favorite the original there: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/9673288/
I own the character, but she owns this sketch.
The real joke here is more subtle than the obvious title joke, so here's the lowdown. The e-magazine Hakin9 publishes articles related to computer hacking and information security, but they gained notoriety by spamming candidate article authors: sending request after request even to those who have turned them down for life.
In October of 2012, a group of IT folks got together and decided they'd try trolling Hakin9. It worked. With unacceptably poor quality assurance standards, they published a gibberish article called "Nmap: The Internet Considered Harmful - DARPA Inference Checking Kludge Scanning" as part of an issue focused on the port scanning tool nmap. (I'll leave it as an exercise for you, dear reader, to spot the acronym by which the article became known.) One of the authors even gained permission to share the article for free, far and wide, as a teaser for the special issue; so proud was Hakin9 of the article. When they finally got wise, they rescinded their offer.
However, they still have not stopped spamming for authors. One such hacker, Steven Alexander, suggested that Hakin9 run an article called "Password-Enhanced Nonce Integrity Scheme" and, for a brief moment, they considered it a serious request. I doubt they'll live down the nmap article for a very long time.
If this were the '90s, I'm sure it would be a magazine about hacking gibsons. Remember to secure the database of your gibson from cookie monsters with just a simple keyword.
Also, if you understand the colors of hats hackers are said to wear, the only kind of hackers I refer to (outside the '90s movie) are white hats.
mystiqe last night during her commission stream.Please favorite the original there: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/9673288/
I own the character, but she owns this sketch.
The real joke here is more subtle than the obvious title joke, so here's the lowdown. The e-magazine Hakin9 publishes articles related to computer hacking and information security, but they gained notoriety by spamming candidate article authors: sending request after request even to those who have turned them down for life.
In October of 2012, a group of IT folks got together and decided they'd try trolling Hakin9. It worked. With unacceptably poor quality assurance standards, they published a gibberish article called "Nmap: The Internet Considered Harmful - DARPA Inference Checking Kludge Scanning" as part of an issue focused on the port scanning tool nmap. (I'll leave it as an exercise for you, dear reader, to spot the acronym by which the article became known.) One of the authors even gained permission to share the article for free, far and wide, as a teaser for the special issue; so proud was Hakin9 of the article. When they finally got wise, they rescinded their offer.
However, they still have not stopped spamming for authors. One such hacker, Steven Alexander, suggested that Hakin9 run an article called "Password-Enhanced Nonce Integrity Scheme" and, for a brief moment, they considered it a serious request. I doubt they'll live down the nmap article for a very long time.
If this were the '90s, I'm sure it would be a magazine about hacking gibsons. Remember to secure the database of your gibson from cookie monsters with just a simple keyword.
Also, if you understand the colors of hats hackers are said to wear, the only kind of hackers I refer to (outside the '90s movie) are white hats.
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