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Hackers: Uncle Sam Wants You!
scraemondaemon writes: "A new TV public service announcement targets U.S. computer hacktivists with a blunt message: Uncle Sam wants you to help fight the war on terrorism. They demonize you and criminalize you and then ask for your help. What's a hacker to do?"
"Ask not, what your country can hack for you. Ask what you can hack for your country"
-The Slashdolt
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But they don't say how.
For all we know maybe they just want to test biological weapons on us.
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six months ago i would never have imagined vint cerf appearing in an ad during a new buffy on upn telling me not to hack web sites in afghanistan.
funny how things change.
go get it
After we haxor his boxen and root his servers and change all of their index.html files, then and ONLY then will Omar Bin Laden and his cohorts know they have been owned.
Their server farms and e-commerce terrorist sites that litter the internet cafes of Afghanistan will feel our rath. Our exploits will decimate their ftp sites and not a single router will go unpunished.
"They demonize you and criminalize you and then ask for your help. What's a hacker to do?"
:)
Simple... hold out for more money
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
...Or suffer from scoliosis and some of the worst eyes in the world, but can code some mean admin scripts!
I can shoot, theoretically, 'cause I've played all the Quake games, and, according to Lieberman and crew, this qualifies me as a triple-A marksman.
Plus, I have extensive anti-terrorist training by way of all the Counterstrike hours I've logged. The gov't could just drop be into de_kabul and let me frag away!
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
It looks like this can change. If we hackers take up the United States' call for help, it will help garner the positive attention we need to get our views heard. While fighting terrorism, we will also be fighting the image of the "evil" hacker that has been ingrained in the public psyche. I urge you to take this major step. Once hackers become heroes, we will finally be able to stand up against Corporate Interest. Remember, image is everything.
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Wow. I'm in awe here people. They've got them there hackers pegged!
Wooden armaments to battle your imaginary foes!
Two hacker favorites -- USA Cable's Sci-Fi Channel, and UPN's hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- would be perfect places to air the spot, said Aftab, who is on the advisory committee of the Advertising Council, a nonprofit which helped put together the "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk" public service campaign.
Buffy? You'd get better hacker demographics by advertising on AOL. Or Slashdot. Oh wait..
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Replace all those X10 popups with "WTF D00D PLZ DONT H4X0R ROFFLL!!!!" ;-)
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I think dropping Be on Kabul would be a bad idea. There are no rootkits for BeOS. How would we haXor Al Qeyda then?
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Hello citizen. This is George Women Bush. Osama bin Laden has faxed us his demands. He wants a video of Janet Reno getting it on with a citizen. Don't ask us why, we don't know. I call upon you, great American! Rise to the occasion!
The linked story makes it pretty clear (at least after the first sentence) that:
/., since Wired did provide the totally misleading info in the 1st sentence of the article...
1) the organization doing the ads is not part of the US government
2) They're asking hackers to NOT deface sites, etc.
I guess I shouldn't be too critical of
Subject: Hi! How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
Whoa! I was all set to hack Dorothy Denning's web site and make her photo look silly. But someone beat me to it!
No no no! That's what we don't want! Can you imagine the "Taliban rox0rs, US sux0rs" spamming of the AIM servers?
Wait a tick... Maybe it could be a good thing. Sure, those poor Afghanis think they're going to be able to call up AOHell after their 1000 hours runs out and cancel, but have you ever tried to get through to Tech Support? We'd cripple their financial infrastructure by way of recurring credit card charges that won't go away!
'Course, last I checked AOL wasn't accepting either rocks or opium as valid currency...
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Seriously though, the slippery slope arguent with regard to civil liberties is vary difficult to make, since based on that argument, organizations such as the ACLU and other organizations have had to defend all sorts of morally reprehensible (yet still legal) activities/things/people, to such a degree as to alienate a large portion of the population. This effect of having to act based on the slippery slope argument, has resulted in members of the news media recently making statements such as those on the ABC sunday discussion program This Week, which were to the effect (and not an exact quote):These light treatments by the news media, of the civil liberties issues around the right to privacy, as manifested by the ability to use cryptographic mechanisms in communication, are inexcusable. Unfortunately, here I suppose I'm preaching to the choir.
--CTH
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The idea is hereby placed in the public domain.
;-)
Thats good.
Because I was worried you got a patent on political activism.
And that would fuck up my whole production.
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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. --Ben Franklin
EXT - NAMELESS AFGHAN PLAIN - MORNING.
An Apache helicopter settles onto the barren plain. Out from it emerge three plain males. They wear an assortment of camouflage combined with curious t-shirts, with sayings like "I don't work here" and "will frag for bandwidth".
Just as Geek1 begins to aim his machine gun at JonKatz, to put an end to his ravings once and for all, a crazed member of the Taliban comes flying over the desert horizon. He is screaming something.
The Geeks all stop and look at him. Terror strikes into their very hearts and souls. The words of their enemy shock them into utter panic. The three begin to flee in the opposite direction, now heading directly into a minefield. Geek1 stops running, a serene expression coming across his face. He grabs Geek2's shoulder by his t-shirt, quietly, allowing JonKatz to continue to flee further into the minefield. The two geeks turn to face their adversary, brandishing their weapons with a newfound confidence and sense of purpose. JonKatz vanishes over the horizon, screaming wildly.
CUT TO...
Be an American and fight for our survival.
Rather odd to hear "Che Guevarra" say that, considering he was executed by the CIA in Bolivia in 1967.
funny... I'm just getting started, and make a bit more than $30K.
I'm determined to reclaim my karma. Now, if I can only find a groundbreaking article and something witty to say....
"All your Al-Qaeda (the base) are belong to U.S."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
> Now I know what to do with all those AOL CD's..
Next time you're in a plane, and some crazed fanatical "Holy Warrior" threatens you with a box cutter, take out the AOL CDs, distrubute them among the passengers and break them apart.
Voila, now everybody is armed with sharp CD fragments ready to impale the "Holy Warriors".
See, AOL CDs are very useful. Thank you AOL !
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Hmm...Last week they were calling hackers terrorists, this week they're telling them to identify themselves. Seems a bit suspicious to me...like you're going to be doing the aforementioned hacking from within a jail cell
No...
If you are hacking for the Gubment, I assure you, you will be called a Freedom Fighter.