The Dark Visitor

CAUTION: I usually do not link directly to hacker websites for one reason, I don’t want people getting something nasty uploaded to their machines. This is that don’t try this at home warning. I am going to link directly to Goodwell’s blog but I still do not suggest you follow it unless you are sure you know what you are doing.

Reported several days ago about Goodwell’s online gaming in Worlds of Warcraft and figured that might be the end of it. However, got a visit on the website from isbase.net and decided to see what was up:

Logo for the Green Army Corps

The site’s BBS has a large number of participants; the screenshot below does not even capture the full membership. Only copied out the two columns that show the TOPICS and the number of POSTS to give you an idea of the size:

Scrolled down the BBS a little farther and there was a blog listed for…drum roll… Continue Reading »

        March of 2000 witnessed the breakup of the Green Army, the organization that started the Chinese Red Hacker movement. In July, cooperation between controlling parties deteriorated and their commercial enterprise ended up in court with both parties suing. The legal battle also saw mutual hacking attacks against one another. In August, the legal case was decided in favor of the Beijing Green Alliance and Shen Jiye. The Shanghai Green Alliance, led by founder Goodwill, owed the Beijing faction 300,000 Yuan (approximately US $36,720) and was forced to turn over the domain isbase.com. Regarding the cause of the break-up, there are two versions of the story.

        The first version is that Beijing Green Alliance was well along in commercialization and did not want to turn back to freelance hacking that was advocated by members of the Green Army of the Shanghai Green Alliance. Apparently, Goodwill wanted to be the first non-profit network security organization in China but others (probably Shen Jiye), saw it as a commercial venture. Eventually, the profit motive won out. Continue Reading »