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Al-Qaeda Hacker Caught
anaesthetica writes "The Washington Post is carrying a story on a young man suspected to be the al-Qaeda hacker 'Irhabi 007'. From the article: 'Celebrated for his computer expertise, Irhabi 007 had propelled the jihadists into a 21st-century offensive through his ability to covertly and securely disseminate manuals of weaponry, videos of insurgent feats such as beheadings and other inflammatory material... The Internet has presented investigators with an extraordinary challenge. But our future security is going to depend increasingly on identifying and catching the shadowy figures who exist primarily in the elusive online world.'"
Now we have to worry about people driving car bombs into ISPs. It's like DDoS attacks, evolved.
Goat's milk. Shaken, not stirred.
and let the riaa go after him.
he exists, i just talked to him yesterday at the NSA
As in the "Enemy of the State", what privacy exists is only within my mind.
Whenever i browser the internet looking at "interesting" sites, talk to my wife over the mobile, call my sister, withdraw money; i know the NSA is watching me.
Iam not interested in wholesale misuse by the Govt: There are too many good people still remaining who will prevent some extent of it. Iam worried about misuse by people like Ashcroft, right-wing nuts who think abstination and religious crap are going to cure AIDS, and that our society will go back to the old 1872's era of nice moral women and gentlemen.
Bush has a dream: no doubt: Of a benevolent govt., looking over our shoulders when i copulate with my wife...
This is exactly what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent...
Unfortunately Al-Qaueda is a god-sent to these right-wing nuts to take away my life.
In a sense Hollywood was pretty ahead of its time: Enemy of State and Siege were very good movies...
The world i leave to my son, would be a world, where if the NSA wants, can tap into all the SIX points of his body to look, see, touch, smell and feel what he feels.
Iam sick !
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
When are they going to catch all the dirty little script kiddies who mass-defaced Danish websites with death threats? These people are most likely the suicide-bomber wannabes who were told to stay home by their big brother because they were too young.
I expect its not so much about catching them, more about using them as keys into cells. Every-time they do something online they are providing an opportunity to be traced and hopefully this will lead to some big busts. Trading a few weapons manuals and videos online is no big deal really - if you want to see the beheading videos go to one of the countless 'hardcore-gore' sites out there or watch Al Jazeera. Weapons manuals have been traded ever since school kids put the anarchists cook book on school network shares.
I hope our governments are actually getting off their asses and using this intelligence to catch daka-dakas.
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You've obviously never seen tubgirl before.
Good. Too bad you haven't caught that Osama guy or that #2 guy we almost catch every time Bush's polls are down.
Gee that is too bad. Oh, by the way, go check out Brittney Spears naked that chick is so cool!
> Posting beheading videos and uploading traning manuals makes you a hacker?
No, beheading people makes you a hacker.
> Boy the bar really has been lowered, hasn't it.
Hacking is breaking into computers nowadays? Boy, the bar really has been lowered, hasn't it?
I shall now post this anonymously as I am embarassed I thought it up.
Wait... aren't his polls at their lowest right now? That must mean we're at least within 5 caves...
You're nothing; like me.
Well there's this guy, and we actually have him according to Mr. NSA AC there! I would put a significant amount of money on the odds that Bush will mention him as a major victory in the war on terror today. He might even slip in a little plug for his wiretapping "program." This wouldn't be possible without blah blah blah.
Sadly, you have to wait a few months before bringing out the "Might have killed #2 guy - Oops, we were close, but we didn't," headline couplet again, or people might catch on.
Bombs and guns may break my bones, but pictures will never hurt me physically.
You've obviously never seen tubgirl either.
--MarkusQ