Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War.

In which Hank talks briefly about the fundamental shift in espionage, warfare, crime, and activism that may re-define our age.

with a pretty in depth article here:

Hackers have been mounting increasingly sophisticated attacks. Billions of dollars have been stolen, and even more has been lost in the form of stolen intellectual property and infrastructure damage. Stuxnet proved that a computer hack can do real-world damage, and if it can be done once, I doubt we will be able to stop it from being done again.

Unlike traditional warfare, we frequently don't know where cyber attacks come from. And with the right team of people, an attack could be pulled off that could destabilize the entire world. It's pretty scary stuff.

DEFINITIONS:

Hacker - a person who can manipulate computers and technology, but more usually a person who breaks into computers that they should not be inside of. 

Vulnerability - a problem in software that can grant access to data and processes that should be kept secret, like passwords or credit cards or the controls to a nuclear power plant. 

Exploit - Software or procedures that allow people to take advantage of vulnerabilities. This will often come in the form of a simple script that anyone with even basic computer knowledge can run.

0-Day Exploit - An exploit that has not been released into the wild. Only the hacker, and possibly his or her close associates, know about the security hole at this point. A 0-Day exploit for an operating system can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

White Hat -  A hacker who uses his skills for good, informing organizations of security holes in their software, often these people are just referred to as security experts.

as ooposed to: 

Black Hat - The sort of hackers that we generally call to mind when we hear the word Hacker.

Patch - Software update that fixes the vulnerability. Often patches are not applied and exploits remain in-use for years.

Script Kiddies - Armies of unskilled, usually young people who just run scripts that hack targets for hackers above them in an organization. Occasionally they also operate on their own.

Cyber - A prefix that I hate, but am unwillingly using because it has become the standard because old people who read newspapers and watch cable news feel comfortable with it. I love William Gibson though!

Own: To take control of. An owned computer or server (or zombie) is controlled by hackers. This is where pwn comes from, by the way.

Anonymous: A loosely organized group of individuals identifying with a certain weird bunch of values like anarchy and "don't mess with us." They hack things that piss them off.

Stuxnet: The most advanced piece of malware ever created which caused the shut-down of Iran's nuclear refinement program.

42: HHG2G reference, which are common in hacker culture.

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[piecake]

The definitions of some terms will be up if you didn't know some of them. For at least 0.1 seconds.

[MalletFace]

They don't have networked. Any connection to the outside world can be used by a hacker. A man named Tadayoshi Kohno once used the built in emergency call system in a vehicle to take control of the car. The good thing is that he is a white hat, and he has been hacking computers for the good guys at the University of Washington.

You can also directly auto-hack it to the computers with some memory device, like a flash drive. There are even sites devoted to giving this code out!

[SiennaElderly]

*GASP* Hank mis-used "Affects!" (It should be effects.) (I just went on a nostalgia tour of the vlogbrothers channel.)

[ragnkja]

I read "42!" as "forty-two factorial", before realising that it might simply be an exclaimation mark... Yep, I'm definitely a nerd.

[OfficialKrystel]

not to brag. but my drw poster, Toby signed ;D
BUT YOU'RE STILL AN AUDIENCE MEMBER THEREFORE. I LOVE YOU. more than i already did

[procrastinator]

Because psychologically, humans inherently label as a way to identify group, because we're originally herd animals. So we need to identify who is or is not in our herd, and other herds. Thus, labels.

[ragnkja]

Re-watching every vlogbrothers video so far, I have two thoughts about this video:
1. When Hank says "script-kiddies", it sounds like he's saying "script-kitties", which just sounds really cute.
2. The second half of the video is really, really scary.

[evenjedi]

Benevolent dictatorship. The best kind of government there is. Only problem with it is how you keep the benevolence going...

[nikkibishop]

Is there such a thing as a 'Hanktivist'? If so, how is it done? :D

[CrimsonOptics]

I'm glad the game Watch_Dogs came out, because it showed the general public just how scary hacking can be. And as Game Theorists proved, almost everything that is hacked in that game is possible. This presents a new kind of threat that is very real and can happen to anyone. It's basically like the whole nuclear war craze in the 60s, except this is a very real threat (not to mention hacking can not only set off nukes, but it can disable everyday appliances, water, cars, buildings, street lights, and basically everything we use in our day-to-day lives. So yes, having a basic knowledge of cyber crime is something everyone should push). 

[weir]

I think Hank is a secret fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, people normally say numbers ending with zeroes or fives, but he said 42 steps behind. I am pretty sure Hank has mentioned 42 before as well.

[OfficalGinat]

Darkness, redness, whiteness poster owned by hank? Life complete

[abigailmacdonald]

Okay this is an absurd question but how does he know this stuff? How did he know the the moffia had such good hackers, how did he know about that virus? I wanna get that smart!!! Where you you learn this hank!!????

[SamCornforth]

I don't know why!...But I find the fact you don't look into the camera lense...rather annoying! don't ask me why, just please give it a go in your next video, rather than looking at the preview screen of yourself!

[groupstalkingchennaicity]

The newest kind of war is when you get a combination of Hacker with Gangstalker who help each other out. This is more dangerous than either of them alone as each has   a friend in the other world (real world/ virtual world) which makes them difficult to track

[SongHarmonizer]

3:08 I am not generally an alarmist--
WELL HANK I'M PRETTY ALARMED NOW

[polk-e-dot]

i just noticed the darkness and redness and whiteness poster in the background SO AWESOME

[itsJakeeeee]

Stuxnet was actually quite a while ago. I remember watching a video on it in my computer science class last year. The only thing that anyone in the whole class (including me) said was, "OMG I WANT TO MAKE THIS."
And yes, we were yelling.

[malofa]

Hank, it's 5 AM and my laptop next to my bed won't shut down. You've scared me enough to remove its battery and I'm not even going to sleep next to it tonight.

[TauxWau]

Yes, 42!, or the answer to life the universe and everything.