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Hack the Army, Brag About it, Get Raided
SunCrushr was one of many who submitted this. A security company called ForensicTec decided to explore the U.S. government's computer systems, with particular emphasis on the Army. They talked to the press and had their fifteen minutes of fame. And surprise surprise, they immediately got raided by the FBI. What did they expect?
ForensicTec officials said they stumbled upon the military networks about two months ago, while checking on network security for a private-sector client.
Someone new to a Dvorak probably tried to type in "lynx http://www.google.com" but instead got "nmap -v -p 1-1024 -sS -P0 army.mil -T paranoid".
It's like discovering that there's a loose brick in the wall between the boys' locker room and the girls' shower room at school: getting an eyeful before reporting is still wrong.
No kidding... What kind of fucknut would report the loose brick?
Errrmmm ... NOTHING is secure against the dreaded Search Warrant exploit.
utter rubbish
5: ????
6: profit!
Rent-a-cop company raided after beating up govenment officials
San Diego, CA
Officials at SecureTech expressed surprise over an early morning FBI raid. For the past few months, SecureTech had been waylaying public officials and beating them to a pulp. The raid came just hours after a Washington Post article mentioning the beatings.
Brent Clueless, SecureTech spokesperson, decried the search. "A few months ago, while installing video cameras in a local mini-mall, we realized that some government officials had woefully inadequate security. Some of them drove the same route home every day, and a few of them even left their front doors unlocked at night. By sneaking in and severely beating in their own houses, we hoped to draw attention to this problem and maybe gain some positive publicity for our security firm."
"We only continued the break-ins and beatings because we were surprised that it was so easy, and we were curious about just how much truly malicious people would be able to get away with, " Clueless continued.
Cheers
-b
You're right. It's not like breaking into someone's house, stealing their stuff, then telling them they need a new lock.
It *is* like breaking into someone's house, going through their papers and files, then telling the local newspaper that this particular house has a crappy lock that's easy to break into.
Can you justify that?
As for whether "every" group that hates the US has already broken into Army computers, I wouldn't speculate on that. I would say, though, that these folks sure helped anyone who hasn't done so already pick an easy target. How patriotic, eh?
Yes, it could have been worse. However, what they did was 1) illegal (isn't everything these days?), 2) stupid, and 3) amateur. You can almost always get away with one out of those three. Often with two out of the three. Go for three out of three, though, and you're going to see some trouble.
-b
Somebody at Fort Hood and elsewhere should be cooling their heels in a stockade.
Classified documents are NOT supposed to be on machines exposed to the Internet- PERIOD. Machines of that nature are not considered to be at a trust level sufficient for those sorts of things. Forget the security of the machines; the security of classified documents is supposed to be much higher than this appears to have been handled.
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You're walking down the street in front of the bank where you've got your accounts, and there is a "Closed" sign on the bank front door. You check the door, and it's unlocked, and all the lights are on. You open the door and walk in, and see that there is money laid out in piles, and the safe is open. You still don't see anyone, so you walk out the front door, and you call a press conference saying that the bank is unlocked.
That is what happened.
The silly part on their part was holding the press conference, not checking the door. In this analogy, I would have told the bank officials first. Then, I would have checked the door a few days later. If the door was still unlocked, then I would hold the press conference.
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