The making of a psychopathic blackhat cyber terrorist group
How long have the fish netters been providing support for Web-APP? And what kind of support have they provided? What are their goals? Where are they going? and What is driving them in their terrorist activities?
Web-APP.org, the original domain for support of the official Web-APP script, has been online since 1 May 2002.
According to public records available through most (if not all) the Whois servers, the netters have only been online since 25 May 2006. That’s a far cry from 2002.
Web-APP.org has been providing support for the original Web-APP Perl portal for nearly five (5) years. As of the writing of this entry, the netters have been online talking trash about the original site for less than one (1) year.
While the tuna fish netters have been talkin’ smack for less than a year, they’ve recently claimed they have been providing support since 2002. While the netter’s own regurgitated garbage continues to flow out of their fowl smelling mouths, the developers and all those helping out at Web-APP.org have been pumping out code, providing support, and patching security issues that were never found by the former so-called “security guy” (now the ringleader of the tuna fish netters). Continuing development and quality support is like a trademark with Web-APP.org. People often comment on the kindness and professionalism offered at Web-APP.org. This can’t be said of the other group who continuously speak derogatorily and with libel. (I won’t go into detail about the inappropriate and vulgar language used by that group).
They have been spamming various websites, some even attacking various sites they feel are “competitive” and using the security holes left by the netter guy mentioned above to gain access to text files in order to vandalise the sites.
I recently received a rash of emails from one of their ringleaders telling me that I need to shut my site down, stop promoting Web-APP.org and if I didn’t they would hack into my site and destroy it and that they would remove all data from my server. They tried to vandalise this site thirteen times thinking they could find some SQL injection vulnerabilities. (Sorry Charlie, but they are no net holes here). Essentially, this makes them blackhat – a person or group that causes damages to a site or programme through any malicious means. That’s also called cyber terrorism. It’s illegal and punishable by serious international laws and may result in prison terms in most countries.
Now the netters talk about changing the license of the source code of Web-APP from GNU/GPL to something else, on the lines of closed source – which is not open source and is not free software. With all the holes in the netters’ version, and no updates of late or addresses to fix such security holes (already exposed months ago – they even admit this) no one in their right mind would use such a thing on their own server. Anyway, changing script from what it was originally licensed to something else other than the GNU General Public License (GNU/GPL) is not only unethical but illegal. The build of the source code they offer from their site is also in violation of the GPL since they fail to give credit in accordance with the license to the original provider (copyright holder) with the domain name intact as it was originally.
It’s their prerogative to change the license of the particular script they are distributing. If they say it is no longer GNU/GPL, then so be it. That’s a good thing because Web-APP (as available from Web-APP.org for a very long time before there was ever a .net group) was offered as GNU/GPL (and still is). Programmers and future WebAPPers can always obtain the GPL WebAPP right from the original source atWeb-APP.org where it has always been regardless of what any spin-off sites offer under a different (i.e., completely closed-source, commercial) license.
Legally the tuna netters can do whatever they want with the code (even sell it if they want to because GPL allows that) … they just have to always give credit to where it originally came from as the original files have always had in it with the actual copyright holder’s (Carter Brown) own modifications to the header of all the script files which points back to Web-APP.org
Once they change that, they are taking credit away from the original source – no matter how much they change it. That’s a bad thing in the eyes of true open source programmers. Again, it’s unethical and illegal.
Now, on the other hand, if they want to totally re-write it and call it something else other than Web-APP (since GPL is not being followed properly by the netters anyway) then they have that right but it is no longer WebAPP obviously. Something on the order of “new coke” perhaps.
WebAPP is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GNU/GPL). This means that, in a nutshell, the software can be modified, redistributed, sold, etc., but that credit must always be given to the originator of the program itself (http://www.web-app.org/). The GNU/GPL says that you can distribute, modify, sell, etc. – just don’t take credit for something you did not create. Anything outside of the license, if not agreed upon by the originator (http://www.web-app.org/) is illegal.
The netters can’t seem to go off on their own (a goal they used to speak of); instead, they spend their time bashing innocent people and attempting to crack into sites that do not belong to them. Is it perhaps that they could be jealous of the success of the original Web-APP? Who knows what goes on in the minds of psychopathic blackhat cyber terrorists?
If you want to bore yourself further with additional information exposing this black hat group, everything has been documented on various sites that they have attacked, see the articles section.
