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Do I need to remind people that these laws are voted on by your elected representatives?
The patriot act is a result of democracy. Don't want cyber security laws? Start by educating people and voting for people who don't want cyber security laws.
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'?
What other fun wars can we just toss these people into?
Could LulzSec actually be working for the Government to help create that "civilized" Internet Sarkozy was talking about. They've certainly created the "worst case scenarios" that politicians can point to now. But the most surprising thing about them is how confident they are they won't be caught. Can they really be that sure that they will never be caught doing these attacks? Or are they just reckless? But if they ar…
Hacking websites isn't really that hard. Especially if you're just shopping around the net for vulnerabilities and then announcing what you hit post-facto (a "called shot" would be a bit more impressive). This is well within reach of invincible-feeling teens. It's a statement about the poor level of security we have; this stuff really is way easier than it should be.
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."
I'm wondering if LulzSec is a false flag operation very well engineered.
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I doubt that the core of the CIA cares too much about it's public-facing website.
It's got a few important uses. Recruiting, public relations, etc. And then, there's the loss of face in having it down.
Mostly, though, I'd say this is just egg on their face.
I can load cia.gov just fine. It doesn't even appear to be slow. I opened up the CIA World Factbook then checked their press section & what's new on cia.gov and there was nothing about it going down.
Also, kudos to the CIA for flipping to HTTPS by default.
Hacking CIA.gov, if they're half as good as one would expect, should yield no more than the static web content hosted. If there half as good as government contractors tend to be, I expect my tax return to be posted shortly.
Enough with the "cyber security" law conspiracy. Do I need to remind people that these laws are voted on by your elected representatives? The patriot act is a result of democracy. Don't want cyber security laws? Start by educating people and voting for people who don't want cyber security laws.
Could LulzSec actually be working for the Government to help create that "civilized" Internet Sarkozy was talking about. They've certainly created the "worst case scenarios" that politicians can point to now. But the most surprising thing about them is how confident they are they won't be caught. Can they really be that sure that they will never be caught doing these attacks? Or are they just reckless? But if they ar…
The crazy thing is (I believe) large botnets are worth a lot of money on the black market. It makes no sense that they would waste their network to take down government websites "for the lulz". Something is missing about the situation.
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I'm wondering if LulzSec is a false flag operation very well engineered.
The same questions and speculation come up in every LulzSec post.