If this is true (call it 70 percent likely, the amount of stupid in the world seems, at times, to be without limit), my guess is he was/is a script kiddie.
No real awareness of the way the systems work, but a lot of little tricks. Sort of like having a spring-gun, but no knowledge of locks actual mechanisms.
So he never learned how networks are built. Until I had to learn some of that, I didn't know where "home" was.
On the flip side, I know people, and I wouldn't have trusted the guy to be telling me his IP. A quick Whois, or a simple command line "ping" would have told me something fishy was going on.
But hey, I know lots of people I could pull that sort of head-fake on.
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Date: 2007-10-25 08:19 pm (UTC)No real awareness of the way the systems work, but a lot of little tricks. Sort of like having a spring-gun, but no knowledge of locks actual mechanisms.
So he never learned how networks are built. Until I had to learn some of that, I didn't know where "home" was.
On the flip side, I know people, and I wouldn't have trusted the guy to be telling me his IP. A quick Whois, or a simple command line "ping" would have told me something fishy was going on.
But hey, I know lots of people I could pull that sort of head-fake on.
TK