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Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Post by nateberkopec »

GHFigs wrote: post #75
nextparadigms wrote: post #55

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…

They've certainly created the "worst case scenarios" that politicians can point to now. Briefly DDOSing a government website is not a "worst case scenario" by anybody's reckoning.

But the politicians will make it seem like it is. These are the kind of people that thought "hacking the Internet" in The Core was a plausible scenario.

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Post by blhack »

gasull wrote: post #59
forgotusername wrote: post #11

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.

Not to be crass, but did you miss the whole "wikileaks" thing?

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Post by hugh3 »

tvon wrote: post #62
dexen wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Say, during American Revolutionary War, wouldn't the Jester be considered `loyalist', rather than `patriot'?

Sure, and in WWII the jester would be a patriot. What other fun wars can we just toss these people into?

What if he were a patriot of Vichy France?

No, I don't actually want an answer to that. Calling him a "greyhat patriot" is sufficiently descriptive to mark him out as some kind of Lulzsec mirror image.

If we're gonna have a Lulzsec, we might as well have an anti-Lulzsec as well. Makes life slightly more entertaining.

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Post by hugh3 »

omouse wrote: post #77
zyfo wrote: post #24

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

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.

Re: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility

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Post by hugh3 »

trotsky wrote: post #51

Wow, without civilians being able to access www.cia.gov for a short period of time due to a ddos I'm sure the military industrial complex will crumble. Why bother running stories about random DDOS's and defacings? It's even less interesting or important news than mainstream media's celebrity gossip.

This is actually a damn good point. The best way to fight DDOSes is to stop making a big deal out of them. We need to show some restraint, and also to educate the media -- folks being unable to access cia.gov has (to a reasonable approximation) zero effect on the CIA.
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