[Jahkio]

Like most hackers id say im fairly paranoid, as such i wa wondering if the community, especially admins, were aware of this?

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/201...g-lulz.ars

Are we being spied on? Is this true? All discussion is welcomed, please be polite, citations to claims would be nice.
-Jah

[Stay Plural]

We are being spied on, I think most of us now this.

It's funny to see, rankmyhack.com. Doesn't a fellow HF member own it?

[Pocky]

Lmao yeah, because the majority of kids here can actually do something. Right.

[RaptorZT]

There are so many members that influences the FBI's to target this site. Although, we should be safe as this forum disallows all BlackHat Activity.

I don't honestly see how BlackHat activity is disallowed. I was just in the "botnet" section and haven't seen more illegal activity in one forum myself. Not to mention the marketplace and all the illegal products being sold there for malicious intentions.

[Jahkio]

We are being spied on daily. Everyone knows this. There are probably FBI's that registered onto this forum without notice.

I thought that as well, but am i the only one finds it alarming that multiple people are hyperanalyzing our forums? I know we cant stop people from acessing the site without stopping its ability to be public* with the conditon of a username. But Is there any feasible way to stop the mass analaysis of the forum. In reference to another poster, i realize this site is mostly compromised of begginers but should we at least try** to fight governments from spying on us; or is the only option to make all begginer hacking information completely public?

Note: i realize its essential to stay public, but i feel like obligated to fight people using HF as a specimen to be experimented on and analyzed -_-'

[Jahkio]

I don't honestly see how BlackHat activity is disallowed. I was just in the "botnet" section and haven't seen more illegal activity in one forum myself. Not to mention the marketplace and all the illegal products being sold there for malicious intentions.

I agree, in my short time here ive found half dozen ways to steal passwords etc that can easily use for malic. Purposes.

Its not really explocitly blackhattery (lol funny word) but its like putting a codom dispenser in a highschool. YEAH its illegal to have underage sex, and theyre not directly telling them to break te law, theyre just making it laughably easy to do so.

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"As a public bulletin board, Hack Forums is by its nature awash mostly in those new to hacking, those eager to share and show off their skills, and a fair number of security researchers and journalists. And if you believe a report from the Guardian from June, at least a quarter of the audience is FBI informants."

Scary shit.

I agree, but i doubt that 1/4 are informants. But id be willing to bet at least 10% of registered users. However an arguement can be made that most actively contributing users are doubtfully FBI etc etc