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Re: United States Sentencing Commission website hacked

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Post by danabramov »

rtaibah wrote: post #66
phaus wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't know if you've seen any other Anon releases, but they almost always deliver the message in this style.

That's true, but they are one-upping themselves with every release. I find the packaging of their message this time is very impactful. Topiary was the genius behind all the LulzSec antics, before him Anon releases lacked creativity. Topiary made anon realize the impact of PR. Is this video part of some game CGI and they just reproduced it? Or did someone do this from scratch? How much time would it take to do from sc…

>they are one-upping themselves with every release

This!

Also, I wonder what it's like to be 14 today and watch this. Anonymous would certainly make a strong impression on me if I was ten years younger.

Re: United States Sentencing Commission website hacked

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Post by codesuela »

singular wrote: post #65
temphn wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's say this Anon's action inspires other Anons within the federal government to take in a USB key and torrent a few GB of internal emails. Then it's a huge win. Any Anons with sysadmin skills will now join the federal government (they're always hiring), turn off logging, bundle up a tar, cover their tracks, and put it on the web. Nothing will take down a .gov faster than shining some sunlight on their Pentagon Pap…

Ask Bradley Manning how that whistleblowing thing works out. I think it's important to realise doing things like that, whether ultimately for the good or the bad, comes at a huge personal risk.

To be fair Bradley Manning was prosecuted because he bonded (they had very long chats) with the guy who was supposed to relay that information. If you read the chat transcripts you can tell that Manning was very troubled at the time and wanted someone to talk to. IMHO this does not necessarily apply to someone who works at the DOJ and uses an anonymous channel to submit confidential documents to e.g. Cryptome

Re: United States Sentencing Commission website hacked

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Post by twoodfin »

hermannj314 wrote: post #57
olefoo wrote: post #6

Dudes. This is not at all helpful. Website defacements just create more of an excuse for a crackdown. If you're going to risk your life and freedom hacking things; make it worth your goddam time. Hack the prison industrial complex and get the evidence that shows that crimes are being created so that prisoners can be kept at a profit. Expose the email trails of corrupt judges who put away kids for kickbacks. Dox the m…

Exposing emails, hacking the FBI? This is not at all helpful. Murdering politicians, assassinating police officers and judges, freeing the wrongly imprisoned by force. A willingness to die fighting. Any or all of those would change things, possibly for the better. But this, this is a waste of your time and ours.

hernmannj314, this comment could be read as encouraging the ("helpful") deaths of a variety of civic officials. Even if there were an appropriate forum for such loathsome sentiments, hn is certainly not it.

Re: United States Sentencing Commission website hacked

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Post by orvtech »

nwh wrote: post #28
raverbashing wrote: post #16

What about the rm -rf / on the command line? Tricky, but not a lot of people know how/where to use that command line in the first place.

You can't actually execute `rm -rf /` on most modern systems anyway. There's a flag to force it, but you'd have to be pretty determined to nuke your system.

Yes you can, btw here is a video of it being executed just for kicks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTXWQriVgH8

Re: United States Sentencing Commission website hacked

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Post by analog »

singular wrote: post #65
temphn wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's say this Anon's action inspires other Anons within the federal government to take in a USB key and torrent a few GB of internal emails. Then it's a huge win. Any Anons with sysadmin skills will now join the federal government (they're always hiring), turn off logging, bundle up a tar, cover their tracks, and put it on the web. Nothing will take down a .gov faster than shining some sunlight on their Pentagon Pap…

Ask Bradley Manning how that whistleblowing thing works out. I think it's important to realise doing things like that, whether ultimately for the good or the bad, comes at a huge personal risk.

It worked out with the Arab Spring didn't it?

"Manning and WikiLeaks were credited as catalysts for the Arab Spring that began in December 2010, when waves of protesters rose up against rulers across the Middle East and North Africa after the leaked cables exposed government corruption" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning

Re: United States Sentencing Commission website hacked

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Post by brendyn »

tokenadult wrote: post #70

[Shakes his head in disgust.] Hackers, it's time for me to hack the discussion. You and your first world problems have NO IDEA how to fight for freedom. This is the wimpy way to protest whatever it is you are protesting. Unlike most people who post here, I have actually lived under a dictatorial regime that ruled a territory that later had a peaceful transition to democracy and legally protected civil rights. Anonymo…

Thanks for the aeinstein.org link. One thing: "no one in Anonymous seems courageous enough to go prison" - What use is it to go to prison? Maybe you will get some article produced about you generation some attention, but it really doesn't seem helpful. Courageous, I agree, but is it rational? Recently I read about a small protest in mainland China about an instance of media censorship. A bunch of people singed there names on some document complaining about it, and Chinese man who was speaking to some journalists got thrown into a van and taken away. It would not surprise me if some of those people who signed their names will end up getting attacked, so anonymity is beneficial here.

Re: United States Sentencing Commission website hacked

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Post by brudgers »

tokenadult wrote: post #70

[Shakes his head in disgust.] Hackers, it's time for me to hack the discussion. You and your first world problems have NO IDEA how to fight for freedom. This is the wimpy way to protest whatever it is you are protesting. Unlike most people who post here, I have actually lived under a dictatorial regime that ruled a territory that later had a peaceful transition to democracy and legally protected civil rights. Anonymo…

"Free" as in information.

Activists scratching their own itches aren't misguided. They are shipping.

Neither is anonymity cowardice. The DOJ won't treat those they catch as pranksters or respect their convictions of conscience. And other interests may not care how problems are solved. just that they are.

Face and big money are at stake. And all sides are serious adults

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