Why are hackers so unusual criminals?

(Source Internet)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

People always talking about hackers and the threats what those people cause for the national security. Normally the talking is turning the thing, why those people are not able to locate using the standard police methodology? The problem with the hackers is normally that those people will not hang in the shopping centers or bubs like normal criminals. Normal police methodology is meant for tracking the drug dealers, who normally operate in the streets.


The tracking the hackers is difficult because the tracker must go inside hackers residency.  Many hackers actually work from home, and that makes the tracking of them very difficult because if the hackers don't want to be tracked, and they have right financial resources, they will be very difficult to track by the net.

The problem is that those people can make series of the computers, what they can remote use, and that makes the tracking those persons very difficult. If the hacker uses series of many computers remotely before this person attacks against the target, will the tracking very difficult. But for this action, the hacker needs comrades, who will take the remotely used computers in the right places. And then the hacker can jump to those computers, and then makes the strike against the interesting target.


But this action needs resources and the problem with the other method, what is infect some computers with the virus, what opens the computer for remote use, is that the person whose computer is infected can just shut the computer because the workstation is not working correctly, and remove the virus by just re-installing the operating system. The hacker needs the trusted platform for the work. And that kind of platform, where is series of the computer located all over the world needs very much financial and social relationship for this kind of action.


In the case the hackers have got the passwords of the target system by using the sodium pentothal or stealing the password by photographing the screens, they must hide their position, even they are sitting opposite the target. The hackers can use UAV:s to surveillance the offices and those vehicles can also equip with  laser microphones to record the competitions in the office. And they might able to get the passwords in their hands.  In that case, they must route their signal around the world, because that will hide their real location.


Even if the passwords are stolen, and the target organization gets the information about it, they might use the passwords as the "honeypots", what means that every user, who uses those passwords will be tracked by IP-addresses and the "trap server" also tries to get the mac-address of the WLAN-card. Because that information might use to track the model of the device, what is used by the hackers.


If the trackers will get the mark of the WLAN-card, they might get the model of the computer, and by using the payment information, they might track those hackers. Some computers are sold very small numbers, and if the hackers are used their credit cards or fill the guarantee card, they might track by using that information.