Over the years, Kevin Mitnick has gotten used to the attacks on his website and cell phone account that routinely result from being a convicted hacker turned security expert. What he finds much harder to stomach is the treatment he’s getting from his providers.

Over the past month, both HostedHere.net, his longtime webhost, and AT&T, his cellular provider since he was released from prison more than nine years ago, have told him they no longer want him as a customer. The reason: his status as a celebrity hacker makes his accounts too hard to defend against the legions of script kiddies who regularly attack them.

So what does this mean? This means that your cellphone and web hosting providers are NOT securing your information. You just aren’t important enough to be attacked. And I would hazard a guess that most other companies that store you information online are also not securing it.

If the information was encrypted, as AT&T claims, it would take a supercomputer to crack it. As evinced by the distributed.net distributed supercomputer encryption cracking program.

AT&T, as well as most other corporations, are lying to you.

Tags: lies lies lies, LIES!!, total cockup, we're fucked

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 09:44.