Dueling Hackers: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Chisame versus Chachamaru in the festival arc.

* In ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'' of all things the vice-presidents of the student council and the treasury are constantly trying to hack each other and keep the other out.

* Nations and political factions anywhere from the level of superpowers to the level of terrorist rings regularly keep an arsenal of offensive, defensive, or just Signint (signals intelligence) apps. As well as hacker teams to run them. One of the most famous was the Stuxnet virus which leapfrogged from computer to computer deleting itself in any that did not contain what its instructions told it to target until it reached its target. This happened to be the Iranian nuclear facilities. Stuxnet is generally suspected to have been launched by the US and/or Israeli secret services. It was quickly picked up, tracked, and dissected by white hatters from security companies but by that time it had done what it had been intended to do. In this case the perps and the white hats were each other's [[Worthy Opponent]]s kind of by accident and the Iranians were not a player as they got stomped from the get-go.

**The Stuxnet had five zero-day exploits in it. A zero-day exploit is a bug no one knows about but you. To compare, it is like being the Texas Rangers taking revolvers to battle and the Commanche don't know about it yet. Zero-days are normally carefully hoarded or sold to a cyberwarfare [[Arms Dealer]] at high price depending on how good they are. To fire off five of them in one virus means you either have a lot to fire off or you really want to hit your target.

 

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