No Love for the Crackers

Item 1 Description of the Annoying Script Kiddies and Black Hat Hackers that ruin my day:

Somewhere he's laughing at me. Across town, or across the world there is a kid sitting in front of his dad's computer that just cobbled together a jumble of codes he found on different websites designed to infect and reformat some poor bastards machine. Why is he laughing at me? For much like Paris Hilton's chihuahua, he gets to crap wherever he wants and I get to clean up the mess.

Now, I can almost understand the guys that hack for a living (and let me be clear I've no hate for the White Hats) at least there is some sort of payoff for the work they do, and a clear understandable motive, but the destruction for destruction's sake type of people just enrage me. I never though Chaotic Evil was a real world alignment.

Now to be sure, everyone with a computer at some point wants to be a hacker of some sort, being like Keanu Reeve... no, um, like that movie Hackers.... Oh God no, um, like Lain, no one will get that but anime geeks, but its still more respectable than the first two. Hell I even wanted to become a Certified Ethical Hacker at one point. Nothing would be more fun than testing people's security, actually to broaden that, its always fun to do something legally and get paid for it when anyone else without that position would go to jail. Now so far I haven't gone that route, but I also haven't gone rogue and started trying to knock down people's firewalls, steal their credit card numbers etc, etc. Unless you've got mafia ties and are making millions it just ain't worth it, and besides, if 80's action movies taught me anything, I'd be the guy that asked for his money and got paid in lead deposited locally.

If you have an interest in the good old days of hacking or phreaking, when it wasn't as nasty in my opinion as today, check out Kevin Mitnick, and Captain Crunch, sure they ripped off phones companies, and are not really heroes, but still kind of cool guys in a Robin Hood type way.

Item 2 List of Offenders:
... too many to list here

Item 3 Suggested Course of Action
Unplug the internet, now