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In case you don't know, Yakezie was hacked this morning.

Insane!  I did some research on the hacker, I gues the dude runs solo and hacks servers to show them their vulnurabilities.  Man, if he isn't making money doing this, he's stupid.  Must be one smart guy.  I heard he lives in his parent's basement and hacks all by hand lol. 

I was wondering what the heck had happened to our site! I tried to get into it three times over a period of 15 minutes of Sunday morning but couldn't. By the evening it was fine–thank you so much to whomever put the work in to fix things.

Glen Craig – Free From Broke said:

And theres the shame of it.  If the dude has that kind of know-how, imagine what he could do if he put it to good use rather than make people hate him?

Exactly Glen. He could be helping so many people, yet he chooses to be an a$$.

I always say Suba is a techy genius!

As for the hacker… I guess I just don't get "why" they do it, but I suppose they like the challenge (sort of how we like the challenge of doing productive things like dropping our Alexa rank)?  Interesting enough, I was talking to one of our IT guys at work.  I work at the Home Office of a large company with employees in all 50 states – naturally, network security is important for us.  The IT guy said he has some hackers currently working for him on a contractor base to test some new hardware.  I thought he was joking but he said that there is actually a market for "hackers" out there and they get hired to purposely try to hack into systems to try to determine their weaknesses.  Sounds like a pretty cool job, actually!  Basically, these are previous "bad guy" hackers who have turned into "good guys" in order to profit. 

The Single Saver said:

I always say Suba is a techy genius!

As for the hacker… I guess I just don't get "why" they do it, but I suppose they like the challenge (sort of how we like the challenge of doing productive things like dropping our Alexa rank)?  Interesting enough, I was talking to one of our IT guys at work.  I work at the Home Office of a large company with employees in all 50 states – naturally, network security is important for us.  The IT guy said he has some hackers currently working for him on a contractor base to test some new hardware.  I thought he was joking but he said that there is actually a market for "hackers" out there and they get hired to purposely try to hack into systems to try to determine their weaknesses.  Sounds like a pretty cool job, actually!  Basically, these are previous "bad guy" hackers who have turned into "good guys" in order to profit. 

My guess is the bad hackers (who don't do it for money) simply like the thrill of destroying. Remember in the Dark Knight when Bruce's butler was saying "some men aren't after anything logical. they just want to see the world burn."