A notorious network of computer hackers is going legitimate, according to MSNBC.
Global Hell's founder has told the cable network they're going straight after all. "We have grown up," says the Global Hell member known only as Mosthated, "and realized that hacking gets you nowhere but locked up, unless you become a kind of white hat hacker to hack for networks and businesses, or being a consultant, which multiple people in gH have done."
And, indeed, cyberspace watchers may have figured something along those lines was up after one of the group's members - Chad Davis - was arrested late last month for hacking into a U.S. Army computer, and the expected retaliation from other Global Hell members never materialized.
In fact, according to MSNBC, a chat room on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network where Global Hell members normally gather had the word out almost at once: no retaliation. And, despite a lack of formal rules for the group, the word stuck.
The group's hacking talents have made its members the targets of several FBI raids, especially after members hacked the FBI itself - forcing the federal law enforcement agency to shut its Web site to the public until the attacks could be stopped. The group became infamous in the first place for defacing the White House's Web site.
And several members already have rap sheets, says MSNBC, with one having served prison time for computer crimes going back to the early 1980s. Their parents, says MSNBC, have been mostly unaware of their computer hacking activities unless their homes were among those the FBI visited.
