Monday, May 10, 2010

The New Yorker Portrays Chatroulette Founder As A Juvenile Delinquent

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Erick Schonfeld wrote on TechCrunch about how the founder of Chatroulette Andrey Ternovskiy was portrayed in The New Yorker as a delinquent being a menace to society. Chatroulette is a random video chat site that leads to people talking with strangers for hours at a time.

What do you think of this profile?

"Like many young Russians with programming skills, Ternovskiy turned to hacking. When he was eleven, he came upon zloy.org (which translates as angry.org), a hacker forum led by a young man named Sergey (a.k.a. Terminator), who trained his followers in cyber warfare. Using the handle Flashboy, Ternovskiy soon mastered the art of the denial-of-service attack, wherein a target system is paralyzed by a mass of incoming communication requests. Next came Web-site and e-mail hacking, a service he gladly performed for girls who asked nicely. By 2007, at the age of fifteen, Ternovskiy had learned about what hackers call “social engineering”—getting what one wants through deceit or manipulation. Posing as a teacher, Ternovskiy got access to some practice tests before they were delivered to his school."

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