Hacktivist Must Program Code Because Internet Ban Print

A member of the Anonymous-like group that US government sites hacked and information from dozens of police officers revealed last year came after a 18 months' imprisonment at large, but still has to deal with an Internet ban and he was printing program code for his employer and by mail must send.

Programmer Higinio Ochoa, alias w0rmer could via a photo to his fiancee arrested . On the websites hacked Ochoa, he placed a photo that his girlfriend had made ​​through its iPhone. The location data was enabled on the smartphone, which the FBI was able to determine the coordinates where the photo was taken. The FBI thus managed to identify the woman and came out through her ​​Facebook page with Ochoa. The hacktivist came last year after a 18 months' imprisonment at large.

However, he still has to do with an internet ban. If he uses a device connected to the Internet, he can end up back behind bars, which creates practical problems. Ochoa is still working as a programmer, but his server is not connected to the internet. To get the code to his employer must send that print through a local printing company, and then by post to the office.

Also, paying bills, he can not do and is done by his wife. The same applies if he wants to watch Netflix. His wife must click play and then "auto-play" setup, so Ochoa no longer need to click play. Even the programmer sees the advantage. "My wife and child have taken place on the internet for me," so he let in an interview with Reply All know.

Anonymous Programmers To Recognize Code

Scientists have developed a way which makes it possible to identify anonymous programmers using their program code, for example, which cyber criminals can be contested. The researchers look for this characteristic features in the code.

"Just as writers and artists every programmer has its own unique style," says Aylin Caliskan-Islam , a doctoral candidate at the University of Drexel. They developed the system and wrote a technical report. "Our process gathers the most important characteristics of a person's style of programming, which is the first step in identifying anonymous authors, finding cyber criminals and settle questions about intellectual property."

Caliskan-Islam states that all great tools that can process natural language to identify anonymous authors in their writing style. On that basis, she wondered whether it was possible to develop a similar system for programmers. The key, according to the researcher is investigating several aspects of the Code, where these qualities come together and form a unique pattern that is found only in the code of a specific programmer.

For her research Caliskan-Islam collected the work of programmers over the past six years to the "Google Code Jam competitions" participated. This eventually resulted in 20,000 different programming attributes. The researcher of the program managed to reduce this to 137 properties, which could then be used to create digital fingerprints of the programmers.Ultimately, this collection was deposited at different solutions that programmers had programmed for the Google matches.

On this basis, the researchers were able to identify the pogrammeurs with a 95% accuracy in their programming style.According Caliskan-Islam can help its solution in finding cybercriminals or forensics, but also resolving debates about who is the original author of a piece of software. The researchers are now working to expand the analysis, so that later code in any programming language can recognize.