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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
If, that is, we still care.
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I'm wondering if LulzSec is a false flag operation very well engineered.
It isn't, there's no point in doing that, not to mention how illegal that would be. The US govt doesn't need any more scandals of this nature (wiretapping is enough I think). Also, whenever a government really wants to do something, they'll use any excuse that's available. For example; PATRIOT ACT, DMCA, Iraq Wars, etc. etc. For cyber-security, if none of this Anon or LulzSec stuff happened, it would be Russian or Ch…
Come on. Since when did that stop a government from doing something?
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It isn't, there's no point in doing that, not to mention how illegal that would be. The US govt doesn't need any more scandals of this nature (wiretapping is enough I think). Also, whenever a government really wants to do something, they'll use any excuse that's available. For example; PATRIOT ACT, DMCA, Iraq Wars, etc. etc. For cyber-security, if none of this Anon or LulzSec stuff happened, it would be Russian or Ch…
"It isn't, there's no point in doing that, not to mention how illegal that would be. The US govt doesn't need any more scandals of this nature (wiretapping is enough I think)." Wiretapping scandal became public circa late 2005 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co... Random collection of additional federal political 'scandals' since 2005: 1) This goes from 2001 - 2008 so skip to 2006 - http:/…
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Patriotism and nationalism are two of the greatest diseases that humankind has ever known. I bet The Jester is as middle-class as the LulzSec people.
I bet The Jester is as middle-class as the LulzSec people Well, almost certainly. I doubt he'd claim to be anything else (isn't everybody middle-class nowadays? [1]) so I'm not sure the point of this comment. [1] OK, not everybody is middle-class. The people who aren't are either too uneducated to use a computer, or too busy snorting coke off hookers asses on their private jets to be interested in this crap.
There's a bigger game that's being played: making the internet safe for commerce. The Jester is not playing that game, he's going to be playing the "middle-class squabbles" game that distracts people from the bigger game.
LulzSec feels (to me) like just a group of bored teenagers messing around, randomly attacking whatever websites they can. I suspect if the gov't wanted to scare people, they wouldn't just sponsor/create a group doing things "for the lulz" - they'd make it out to be something larger and scarier.
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In the end, government is beholden to corporations. And corporations can't do without network freedom.
depends on which corporations you ask, Comcast would love to be able to sell you just certain websites in a package deal. Starter package, including Fox, CNN and Comcast.com, for 30$/mo next step up is the premium package including Facebook and twitter for 60$/mo.. but if you want YouTube and Netflix you need the platinum package for 120$/mo. I really hope that scenario never happens, but if we get more Lulzsec like…
Hilariously, the massive media frenzy surrounding the site outage will send the site enough traffic to DDOS it, even if LulzSec never meaningfully impacted it in the first place.
I doubt it, most of these sites tend to be behind Akamai or some sort of similar CDN/reverse proxy network. This actually serves two purposes: 1) provides some security by sufficiently isolating the actual system from public access (it can be locked down to only serve requests from the CDN) 2) Prevent the type of DDoS described in the parent comment. Akamai is designed to handle the load from things like the Grammies…
Usually (always?), when a site is using akamai, a reverse DNS lookup for the site's IP yields some akamai domain name, rather than the original one. (This is the case for whitehouse.gov, for example.) This is /not/ the case for the CIA - they seem to do their own hosting. (root.ucia.gov and relay1.ucia.gov come up)
So, it's plausible that the site is in fact run by a very small collection of servers, and that they were sitting ducks for the next red-bull-drinking teen wanting to "hack the CIA".
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I bet The Jester is as middle-class as the LulzSec people Well, almost certainly. I doubt he'd claim to be anything else (isn't everybody middle-class nowadays? [1]) so I'm not sure the point of this comment. [1] OK, not everybody is middle-class. The people who aren't are either too uneducated to use a computer, or too busy snorting coke off hookers asses on their private jets to be interested in this crap.
My point is that the upper-class is fighting a different war and being divided from others by nationalism and protecting a war-mongering police state from other middle-class folks is retarded. There's a bigger game that's being played: making the internet safe for commerce. The Jester is not playing that game, he's going to be playing the "middle-class squabbles" game that distracts people from the bigger game.
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depends on which corporations you ask, Comcast would love to be able to sell you just certain websites in a package deal. Starter package, including Fox, CNN and Comcast.com, for 30$/mo next step up is the premium package including Facebook and twitter for 60$/mo.. but if you want YouTube and Netflix you need the platinum package for 120$/mo. I really hope that scenario never happens, but if we get more Lulzsec like…
I think it reflects worse on the companies getting hacked than the need to fight hackers. Of course there will be hackers, but how many people now don't trust Sony or Citi?
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I think it reflects worse on the companies getting hacked than the need to fight hackers. Of course there will be hackers, but how many people now don't trust Sony or Citi?
that is very true, but the media seems to spin it purely against the big bad hackers. Trust me, I love that these companies are finally getting a reality check! I mean the Citi hack was URL modification. please thats like figuring out if theres http://something.com/2.jpg there is probably also 1.jpg and 3.jpg
