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CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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I just wonder... would merely announcing the CIA.gov is hacked on LuLzSec's highly-popular website be enough to cause such spike of curious visitors that the servers collapse?

Kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, it'd be; also a neat hack. Truly anonymous DDoS, too ;-)

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's just a troll/internet tough guy having verbal warfare via Twitter and IRC.

Really? Xerxes seems impressing to me. Not that I know too much about it, but you're not exactly convincing. Xerxes: http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/time-to-speak-up-p...

Don't believe me, just search through Twitter convos[1] between them. It's pretty funny actually. Lulzsec does something. th3j35t3r gets terrimad and says they are all that is wrong in the world. Lulzsec chortles `u mad bro`? GOTO 10.

He's actually laid another ultimatum (for the umpteenth time in the last 3 months) promising revenge. His first act seems to be that irc.lulzco.org is down. We shall see if anything else comes from his indignation.

[1] http://bettween.com/lulzsec/th3j35t3r

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with the coat of paint comment but if we have learned anything about government agencies or large corporations being hacked in the past it is that their Internet security practices can sometimes be painfully bad. @Below and HBGary was a IT security firm after all...

The CIA should be relatively secure: they are an intelligence agency, after all. Breaching a intelligence agency's website will cause the agency to lose more face than a Senator does after his or her website is hacked.

Either way, the result is a budget increase for "cyberwar operations".

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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The Jester, greyhat patriot who hacked Talibans' websites and forced Wikileaks to change their hosting, is now going after LulzSec. This is a lot more entertaining than TV: https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r

Say, during American Revolutionary War, wouldn't the Jester be considered `loyalist', rather than `patriot'?

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Confirming that it is indeed down for me. I wonder what the CIA are going to do, especially because LulzSec is directly targeting them now.

I doubt that the core of the CIA cares too much about it's public-facing website.

Even if they don't care that they site id down they will probably care about the public opinion that a couple of script kiddies took down the site if a top US government agency.

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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The Jester, greyhat patriot who hacked Talibans' websites and forced Wikileaks to change their hosting, is now going after LulzSec. This is a lot more entertaining than TV: https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r

Say, during American Revolutionary War, wouldn't the Jester be considered `loyalist', rather than `patriot'?

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Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

#49

Works for me. It puts me on edge that these idiots would pick such media-friendly targets to strafe with their clueless bandwidth wastage; not looking forward to the next round of "cyber security" laws one bit. "Hey dad, tell me just one more time about how when you were a kid you used to be able to make TCP connections freely and without the connection first being authorized by the NSA." "Go to sleep, son."

In the end, government is beholden to corporations. And corporations can't do without network freedom.

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Works for me. It puts me on edge that these idiots would pick such media-friendly targets to strafe with their clueless bandwidth wastage; not looking forward to the next round of "cyber security" laws one bit. "Hey dad, tell me just one more time about how when you were a kid you used to be able to make TCP connections freely and without the connection first being authorized by the NSA." "Go to sleep, son."

More each day, I'm feeling like an old gun slinger watching the freedom of the wild west die, from my rocking chair in front of the cafe as one of those new-fangled automobiles goes smoking down the street.

I enjoy John Wayne's The Shootist more and more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUfOIglaSc "Books, this is nineteen-ought one, the old days are gone and you don't know it."

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