Analyzing the Driving Forces Behind the World of Hell Hacking Collective

vnunet talks to hacking group World of Hell. What's your motivation for hacking? Personal, political, to prove a point about security issues or just for fame/infamy? Rubix: Well, I myself am 'hacking' to get media attention, and would be known in . . . vnunet talks to hacking group World of Hell. What's your motivation for hacking? Personal, political, to prove a point about security issues or just for fame/infamy? Rubix: Well, I myself am 'hacking' to get media attention, and would be known in the underground world as a 'media wh0re'. When I started out I was hacking unknown and insignificant websites, but then I thought, 'why am I hacking sites nobody cares about? I am gaining nothing here.' So I set myself to only deface big companies, that way I get more attention and 'respect' from guys on the underground.

Cowhead2000: I just hack because I'm bored. I try to equal out my internet time evenly between pr0n [surfing for porn] and ./hax0rin [hacking].

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