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Is there any reason to believe this wasnt for publicity and to get his message about diplomacy out? He definitely has the resources to do this.
This kind of stuff is really upsetting. If you don't want people to do this kind of thing, you have to not encourage them. Even if they are all arrested, others will see this. And think, Hey I can get a reward for doing this stuff. A 10 sec look at their twitter feed will tell you that they are doing this primarily to make a name for themselves. They want to be famous. Yet what does every single news outlet do? Plast…
>Yet what does every single news outlet do? What they're supposed to? This is after all, news. You don't drop a story because you think someone is a cunt.
You want to see something scary, start to look at how media coverage affects mass shootings. There is very strong evidence to support the idea that our current media coverage of making these people "famous" increases the deadliness of these events as compared to something like the North Hollywood Shootout.
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>but on the other hand it's likely most or all of them will be arrested in the not-so-distant future People have been saying this for 3-4 months now.
Take a look at the following Twitter: https://twitter.com/finestsquad At least one of them, a 17-year-old from Canada, has already been arrested. The personal information of most of the rest of the group has already been publicly spread by "Finest Squad" and sent to law enforcement (though I imagine law enforcement probably already knows who most of them are, especially if other random Internet users can find their n…
It just looks like they're tweeting out random IPs from zeustracker.
So, any group of kids with access to one-click DDOS tools can extort $300,000USD worth of services out of a business by attacking large networks? Is Kim really that proud of this precedent? Will a $300k ransom be enough next time? Maybe that's the future of high uptime public networks, an understanding that millions or even tens of millions per year must be set aside for bribes. Sounds a bit like driving through a co…
That's not the value. It's probably going to cost around 50k to 100k
I certainly don't agree with the precedent, though
This kind of stuff is really upsetting. If you don't want people to do this kind of thing, you have to not encourage them. Even if they are all arrested, others will see this. And think, Hey I can get a reward for doing this stuff. A 10 sec look at their twitter feed will tell you that they are doing this primarily to make a name for themselves. They want to be famous. Yet what does every single news outlet do? Plast…
>Yet what does every single news outlet do? What they're supposed to? This is after all, news. You don't drop a story because you think someone is a cunt.
So, any group of kids with access to one-click DDOS tools can extort $300,000USD worth of services out of a business by attacking large networks? Is Kim really that proud of this precedent? Will a $300k ransom be enough next time? Maybe that's the future of high uptime public networks, an understanding that millions or even tens of millions per year must be set aside for bribes. Sounds a bit like driving through a co…
This kind of stuff is really upsetting. If you don't want people to do this kind of thing, you have to not encourage them. Even if they are all arrested, others will see this. And think, Hey I can get a reward for doing this stuff. A 10 sec look at their twitter feed will tell you that they are doing this primarily to make a name for themselves. They want to be famous. Yet what does every single news outlet do? Plast…
>Yet what does every single news outlet do? What they're supposed to? This is after all, news. You don't drop a story because you think someone is a cunt.
This kind of stuff is really upsetting. If you don't want people to do this kind of thing, you have to not encourage them. Even if they are all arrested, others will see this. And think, Hey I can get a reward for doing this stuff. A 10 sec look at their twitter feed will tell you that they are doing this primarily to make a name for themselves. They want to be famous. Yet what does every single news outlet do? Plast…
>Yet what does every single news outlet do? What they're supposed to? This is after all, news. You don't drop a story because you think someone is a cunt.
I think the point is that you just don't publish the names of the groups responsible for the attacks. The truly interested (security professionals, law enforcement) can go dig for the group names, other people don't really need to know, and likely don't care anyway.
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Take a look at the following Twitter: https://twitter.com/finestsquad At least one of them, a 17-year-old from Canada, has already been arrested. The personal information of most of the rest of the group has already been publicly spread by "Finest Squad" and sent to law enforcement (though I imagine law enforcement probably already knows who most of them are, especially if other random Internet users can find their n…
What's there to back up the legitimacy of the information released by these guys? It just looks like they're tweeting out random IPs from zeustracker.
It's quite possible they got a few wrong; I have not independently confirmed the information and I'm not sure anyone else has. One can clearly tell what sort of individuals the perpetrators are, though, and US law enforcement typically does not have a lot of trouble identifying and rounding up egotistical script kiddies. Look at LulzSec and all the copycats.
Feel free to put my comment on a calendar: I'd bet a fair bit of money that 75% or more of the group will be arrested before Christmas of 2015.
Is there any reason to believe this wasnt for publicity and to get his message about diplomacy out? He definitely has the resources to do this.
I will allow for a slight chance that he really did sincerely just want to play Xbox/Playstation yesterday.
The publicity sure doesn't hurt, either.