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Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Re: Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Post by harel »

gadders wrote: post #12
rhizome wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neither does killing an opposition leader during peace talks.

How is firing dozens of rockets "peace talks"?

The killing of Jaabari was done in response to around 120 missiles thrown at Israel prior to the killing. There might have been peace talks but it seems like they had stock of missiles they wanted to ship out before any peace was signed for. The bottom line is that both sides of this conflict are held hostage to a very vocal and armed minorities of both sides who would like to keep the conflict burning on. Its no wonder that these things happen just before elections. Both sides have an interest to keep a right wing government in place and the best way to do this is by firing missiles and retaliating against them. Fear drives people to elect a right wing government and nothing drives fear like a bunch of missiles and a heavy "disproportionate" response. Until both sides wake up and realize they are controlled by tiny minorities with guns there is no hope to resolve this conflict.

Re: Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Post by kaonashi »

aes256 wrote: post #16
guelo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it's not as if the heavy bombing of a densely populated defenseless area is healing anything either.

Heavy bombing of densely populated areas? It's rather simple. As a general rule, civilians in the Gaza Strip know if they are near a target. You don't live next to a rocket manufacturing, storage or launch site without knowing about it. The IDF have gone to great pains to warn civilians not to go near these sites, or to mix with combatants. They send text messages, drop leaflets, even make phone calls with recorded m…

Gaza is among the most densely populated areas on Earth. It is simply not feasible for civilians to comply with such orders.

Re: Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Post by tptacek »

guelo wrote: post #7
jgrahamc wrote: post #5

This does nothing to help heal the open wound that is the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Well it's not as if the heavy bombing of a densely populated defenseless area is healing anything either.

What does this have to do with John's comment? Nothing. It has nothing to do with John's comment.

Re: Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Post by tzs »

[deleted] wrote: post #15
gadders wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is firing dozens of rockets "peace talks"?

[deleted]

There were over 100 rockets on November 11, which was three days before he was killed. There were also 25 on November 10.

Re: Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Post by yonilevy »

[deleted] wrote: post #15
gadders wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is firing dozens of rockets "peace talks"?

[deleted]

171 rockets were fired last month (source: http://www.shabak.gov.il/publications/updates/Pages/graf3.as...).

Haven't heard of any "peace talks", got a reference?

Re: Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Post by kevingadd »

aes256 wrote: post #16
guelo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it's not as if the heavy bombing of a densely populated defenseless area is healing anything either.

Heavy bombing of densely populated areas? It's rather simple. As a general rule, civilians in the Gaza Strip know if they are near a target. You don't live next to a rocket manufacturing, storage or launch site without knowing about it. The IDF have gone to great pains to warn civilians not to go near these sites, or to mix with combatants. They send text messages, drop leaflets, even make phone calls with recorded m…

Sites like the UN school Israel fired White Phosphorus into?

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/cast-lead-remem...

Give me a break.

Re: Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Post by gummydude »

chrisherring wrote: post #17
aerodog wrote: post #6

Anonymous deserves our kudos on this one. It's true that these dbs may have backups, but as the world just watches, it's nice to see someone at least trying to put Israel's feet to the fire in the capacity they can.

Kudos for what? Engaging in illegal activites? Painting a blatantly one sided view of the conflict. Hamas weren't siting by letting their rockets collect dust. You can't claim them as innocent either.

1 sided of what? attacking innocent civillians? When did ever Israel listen to the world?

Re: Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Post by sgdesign »

aes256 wrote: post #2

1) These script kiddies are not Anonymous; 2) The majority of the sites affected appear to be hosted with a single company; 3) If any of the deleted databases held important information, there will be backups. Edit: 4) The leaked passwords appear to be site-specific; all are six characters long, around a third of them are '123456'

Isn't the point of "Anonymous" precisely that nobody (and everybody) is "Anonymous"?

Re: Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases

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Post by aes256 »

kaonashi wrote: post #22
aes256 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heavy bombing of densely populated areas? It's rather simple. As a general rule, civilians in the Gaza Strip know if they are near a target. You don't live next to a rocket manufacturing, storage or launch site without knowing about it. The IDF have gone to great pains to warn civilians not to go near these sites, or to mix with combatants. They send text messages, drop leaflets, even make phone calls with recorded m…

Gaza is among the most densely populated areas on Earth. It is simply not feasible for civilians to comply with such orders.

There are both dense and sparsely populated areas of the Strip.

Israel are not carpet-bombing the area, they are performing pinpoint strikes on legitimate military targets.

As a civilian, it is not difficult to avoid those targets.

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