remote access

Have you heard about the paraplegic sex tape hacker?
http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/06/23/sextortionist/
He disguised malware as popular songs for download and then searched the machines for the owners' amateur sexy photos and videos, and he was also able to remotely access unknowing victims' webcams and watch them in all sorts of intimate situations.

It seems like what he was doing was fairly easy but he got way to bold and greedy so he got caught. Has anyone ever remotely accessed a pretty girl's webcam or written malware to be used in such a way? Is it easy to get caught?
just curious

I always cover my webcam before I masturbate.

real programmers don't hack

Real programmers don't do weed.

>>4
no, they smoke it

>>5
Surely, not every day!?

Q: Why are backslashes (\) used as language operators? Isn't that confusing, given they're used in other languages as escape characters?

A: This is a valid point, but backslashes were chosen for a purely pragmatic reason; on virutally all keyboards, backslashes are very easy to type (requiring only a single keystroke). This is a handy property for backslashes to have because in ANI, you'll be typing them a lot!

Incomers from other languages might be thrown off a tiny bit, but a programmer that's spent some time with ANI will quickly come to realize that there is actually never any good reason to end a line of ANI code with a syntactual backslash! If one insists on doing so anyway, they are writing ill-formatted code that would be confusing regardless of how backslashes are interpreted by the language. Thus, the backslash conflict is there in theory but irrelevant in practice.

The usage of \ in the language syntax is a thought-out practical compromise, though the issue may be reconsidered in the future depending on programmer feedback.


Thats pretty bad, since escape characters, urls and path separators share that character code. Adding it for the sole reason of avoiding pressing more than one button is silly, reminds me of huge chinese keyboards which have 1 glyph each. 
We waste far more energy type longer variable names.


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This guy has nothing on ZeroCool.

Also I don't get it, couldn't he just go to a porn site and search for amateur videos?

He didn't stop there: According to an affidavit, Mijangos contacted his female victims, 44 of whom were underage, and threatened to distribute explicit content of them to all of their e-mail contacts -- unless they filmed X-rated videos for him.
The man is my hero.

I'd say that considering how much malware is running on people's computers anyway, as long as you keep a low profile and aren't braindead enough to leave your phone number in the executable, there's a low probability of getting caught. Though there's still the possibility of shit hitting the fan anyway.

I'd actually like to talk about writing malware on Prague more often.

that's what I thought.. nobody really knows

its called a RAT, and they are easy to setup if you have one

>>6
Ha. I have been humored!