Eh it's kind of old and the site's down but I was hoping this community would get a kick out of this article unless it's already been posted or mentioned on here before lol
"Happy hackers attack sites, submit hacks for ratings on RankMyHack
By Darlene Storm
August 15, 2011 9:04 PM EDT
Happy Hacking! Wanna duel? While I might be joking, there is apparently an issue in IRC, forums and underground cyber meeting places. When you meet another hacker online, how do you know if that person is full of hot air or if they have any l33t skills? A UK hacker and web developer who goes by 's0lar' created a site called RankMyHack "to fix the problem of ranking in hacking underground." It also helps to track "hackers hacking achievements under their current alias allowing for other hackers to quickly establish the caliber of hacker they are talking to."
RankMyHack.com
Welcome to RankMyHack.Com The world's first elite hacker ranking system. Submit proof of your website hacks in exchange for Ranking Points that earn you a place on the leaderboard of legends. The bigger the site, the bigger the points. Then use your points to duel with other hackers and protect your legacy in one on one digital combat. So have you got what it takes to be the best?
In theory, there have been more than 1,100 sites hacked. The current leader with a #1 ranking attacked the Huffington Post. Other sites range from Mashable, Mapquest, Monster, Flickr, Linkedin and many more. While XXS (cross-site scripting) attacks are worth fewer points, there are bonus points called "bounty" awarded for hacking government, military, educational or racist websites. Bounties offer "additional ranking point reward" and Ku Klux Klan sites are included on that reward list. Allegedly MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, Georgetown, and Stanford have all been hacked and that's but naming a few.
If this site is for real, a potential attacker can input a website URL to see how many ranking points it would be worth. In the name of testing purposes, a person might be curious enough to test a couple in order to list examples: "nytimes.com is worth 1704545 Ranking Points. XSS attacks against nytimes.com are worth 17045 points." And "wired.com is worth 237341 Ranking Points. XSS attacks against wired.com are worth 2373 points." This is not an endorsement or a suggestion to hack anyone.
So a hacker would attack a site, tag it with "Your_Unique_Code" and submit the hacked site URL. Then RankMyHack scans to validate and detect the unique code as proof.
There is also a "war room" for chatting. Another page is devoted to resources, information, hacking tutorials, tools and forums.
Duels are like the great hack-off competition with a time limit. He or she who hacks the most sites in the allotted time wins.According to RankMyHack "Duels are a one on one hacker competition, you set the time limit and point stake in your duel request, when your opponent accepts the duel request you have the specified amount of time to collect as many ranking points as possible by hacking websites and submitting them through the Submit Form." When the time is up, the hacker with the most ranking points within that time limit is the winner and the "ranking point stake is then deducted from the losing player's total ranking points and awarded to the victor."
According to s0lar, "This site isn't the next Anonymous or the next Lulzsec." As for the bounties, they "provide a politically constructive target" for RankMyHack members. The Twitter account for @RankMyHack shows that the site launched July 22. Not even a month later, the current number of sites allegedly hacked is 1,132."
I dunno if the site was genuine or just a trap to put lame skid website defacers behind bars but I am hoping it was a trap lol
EDIT: Yes I just realized that I should had used you're instead of your in the title... :p
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