re: #253 SixDegrees

Case in point.

They did it for the LULZ. As the article pointed out, they were pulling a prank, then got pissed off and made it a more serious prank after:

they contacted Comcast’s original technical contact at his home number to tell him what they’d done (which was change the email address and the real mail address on the webpage). It was only when the Comcast manager scoffed at their claim and hung up on them that EBK said it was decided to take the more drastic measure of redirecting the site’s traffic to servers under the hackers’ control.

The sad part is, they’re probably going to get jail time for this in order to show people how serious this is. meanwhile the actual black hats have tools to conduct man in the middle attacks on SSL sites as this demonstration points out a real world example using twitter and I’m willing to best most people haven’t heard about the vulnerabilities to https, even as they do their online banking and bill pays