Friday, March 7, 2008

Chinese Hacker Xiao Chen Says No Site Is Safe

A recent article on CNN has sparked interested in this Chinese hacker named Xiao Chen, who claimed he has hacked into the Pentagon--see article here:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/07/china.hackers/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Also here:

http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=393

And here:

http://www.dwnews.com/gb/MainNews/Forums/BackStage/2008_3_8_2_20_3_683.html

The articles withheld the specifics (such as name and location/address) of Xiao Chen's website, but a search on Google shows that it might be one of these BBS sites:

http://bbs.hackerxfiles.net/space-uid-168189.html
http://bbs.hackerxfiles.net/thread-96652-1-1.html
http://bbs.hackerxfiles.net/
http://bbs.hack4.com/

(Note that the term "hacker" sounds like "dark visitor" in Chinese--that is why the term dark visitor is used to designate a hacker in Chinese (also the term "hack" sounds like dark/black(out) in Chinese--thus the corresponding slang.)