posted on July 2, 2001 06:11:08 AM new
Read The Auction Guild (TAG) notes... here is an exerpt...
Some humor TAG felt the need to share - this is a very amusing satirical post from the ebaY boards made by a red star
seller on 30 Jun, “30 June 2001 Associated Press(AP) *** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** Ebay (NASDAQ) was the target
of a vicious hacker attack that lasted over two hours early this afternoon. After
slipping past ebay's security firewalls in approximately 8 seconds, the unknown hacker proceeded to fix over 1100 known
bugs in ebay's auction programs. The hacker, on an anonymous post to the ebay stock chat board on a competitor's
site, said the following: "I hacked into ebay with the original intention of taking the site down. Once into the site, and
having had a thorough look at their programming, I felt it would be much more interesting to fix most everything and then
stand off and see how long it would take them to screw it all up again. Most God awful programming I've ever seen...If I
had taken the site down it would have just been a mercy kill." Ebay spokesman, RecoReed, said ebay is working with
multiple law enforcement agencies to identify the hacker. A FBI spokesman, who wished to remain anonymous, said "If we
catch this guy, we're going to hire him to fix a bunch of our own software."”
