[quote=YesuWangu][quote=masukuma][quote=alma][quote=YesuWangu][quote=masukuma][quote=FundamentAli]A journalist to hack into a website?!!! They are not that clever. You need an IT expert.[/quote]
there is no way a journalist/blogger can do this...unless the website is makaratas![/quote]
Its a fallacy to believe only IT 'experts' are hackers.
Why, anyone with interest can learn to hack. There is no school that teaches hacking as a career.
I use linux and if I open a terminal and do some rudimentary things in it, most people (maybe like you) will be dazzled and think I am an IT 'expert'.....[/quote]
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My problem is with the journalists claiming that he hacked a website and got emails from it. That's not true.
That to me is the evidence I need to know that he can't hack. Not that he can't hack unless he's an IT (whatever that means).
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hacking is not a joke! you have to think really hard to exploit vulnerabilities that exist. Teams of experts are employed to block those vulnerabilities. the people who download some scripts/tutorial and running them to penetrate IT infrastructure are not hackers - they are script kiddies. the reason I say that IT experts are more suited is because of the length of time it takes to get the skills. journalists or worse Bloggers and tweeps don't have what it takes to pay the price!!
Kwanza ni ujinga kusema...someone hacked a WEBSITE to GET EMAILS....[/quote]
Ok.
I don't know about hiyo website and I don't know about those emails or hiyo journalist na ujinga zake.
But I guess I am well on my way to being a hacker already, then! LOL.
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I did't mean to be offensive, I just found it strange that someone is arrested for hacking a website to get emails. unless hiyo website ni yahoo, gmail e.t.c. so ujinga sio ya mtu yeyote hapa it ujinga ya wale wametoa amri ya kuarrest.
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