Why Hackers Are Often Easy to Catch
I’ll admit, if I were a hacker and I hadn’t read this item, I’d probably do the same dumb thing:
Experts say that the first thing hackers do when they break into a database containing personal information, such as those of ChoicePoint and Acxiom, is look up themselves and their friends.
Besides proving that hackers are a hopelessly self-absorbed lot, this tendency also illustrates that they are not always as smart as we might think. This irresistible act of narcissism often leads to their eventual capture—investigators simply follow the digital trail back to its source
But that doesn’t mean I’m “hopelessly self-absorbed” (Yeah right, that’s why you posted it on a Sunday after church–Ed.)
