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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.
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.
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.
Bombs and guns may break my bones, but pictures will never hurt me physically.
You've obviously never seen tubgirl either.
--MarkusQ