**FIRST EMAIL**/Important Reminders

[Qbranch]

Originally Posted by Chaos204

I agree that there is a lot of money going into each regional ~4000 per team but what makes you think the venue pays FIRST (sorry if it is changing the subject) If anything the venue may be donated.

I don't know or have any actual information just speculation.
I also don't know specifics about what actually happened but we are supposed to be bigger than this. Which worries me that it possibly wasn't one of us.

I asked the University of Illinois.

I'm amazed that somebody would try to hack FIRST too... but I won't say the ability isn't there.

-q

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

I'm amazed that somebody would try to hack FIRST too.

-q

Are you honestly that surprised?? We're engineers/programmers/electricians/intelligent people. While I don't condone the activity, I am not surprised someone tried it in the least.

[Tom Line]

Careful guys.

There is, at this time, absolutely no proof that these "users" were FRC users. In fact, one of the most common hacking / phishing methods is to install a trojan / rootkit / backdoor on someone's machine, and thus gain access to their email and saved passwords. Then, by going through that same person's machine, not only do you have their passwords, but you appear to be "them".

Anyone who has run an FTP or email server knows that you literally get thousands of port probes and password-generator hits per hour. In the past I've had people trying to hack in from Air Force computers in Nevada. Of course I have no doubt it wasn't them - some office schmoe simply allowed his computer to be compromised.

Let's not jump the gone and start looking at First teams. This could have been anyone, and First certainly isn't going to say one way or the other.