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Online Crime Seen as Growing Threat to Business, Politics
BobB passed us a link to a NetworkWorld article, exploring the ongoing realization in business circles of the dangers online criminals pose. The piece raises the possibility that criminal elements are gaining access to US research labs in an effort to ferret out corporate and governmental information. One institute referred to in the article states: "Economic espionage will be increasingly common as nation-states use cyber theft of data to gain economic advantage in multinational deals. The attack of choice involves targeted spear phishing with attachments, using well-researched social engineering methods to make the victim believe that an attachment comes from a trusted source." We just recently discussed possible hacker involvement in several municipal blackouts.
Esp. the harrassment of good citizens by the RIAA.
There are niggers online now?
We need a seperate but equal internet for niggers, kikes, spicks, wops, chinks, and communists.
Segregate the infirior races for the good of humanity.
Most American cities are already segregated by race. Just follow their lead.
So "they" are just no figuring this out? Good grief.
as usual
ron paul 2008
Looks like we need to call in Eric Menhart to lay down the CyberLaw(TM)...
The paradox with this situation is the fact that niggers are too dumb to use computers.
I also can't wrap my mind around Nigerian scam emails. I think that's really a Russian mob op. It must be.
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Used to be, mafia guys would have no Social Security card, driver's license, or bank accounts to avoid being traced by law enforcement or the IRS. Now, I feel like having none of those things to avoid the crooks online.
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What will crime be like then?
Will niggers rap about robbing MMO gold instead of gold chains? Doing drive-by wireless stealing instead of drive-by shootings?
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Usually I just post anonymously because I'm too lazy to register but the moron posting anonymously and spewing forth a plethora of racist bullshit forced me to register just so I could say "FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK!"
... of search engines like google.
Not to mention the ease of leaking/bribing information today when combined with google, cam cell phones, etc.
This is just like CIA Claims Cyber Attackers Blacked Out Cities Do you see the common thread here? Same SANS "expert", too. The guy who gave CIA props for their "disclosure". I remember when SANS was a good, technical security training and education outfit. Now they are on the Richard Clarke / Howard Schmidt CyberTerror disinformation campaign. I would doubt the spook "creds" - if you'd call 'em that - of Alan Paller. The worst theft and correlation of personal data is an ongoing effort by the state - with the telcos CA-CHING! Billing all the while. The crooks and Terra-ists are a joke in comparison. T'rists didn't "lose" several BILLION US dollars in small, unmarked bills in Iraq.
Who loses track of that kind of money? No one. Mistakes aren't made like that. Plans are. But we're supposed to be afraid of teh Internet now. Why? Cos' if we didn't have the 'net, we wouldn't know about that missing cash - or the validity of Operations MOCKINGBIRD, MKUltra, Northwoods, etc.
AirTran? This is a great outfit!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
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ron paul 2008
Don't you mean NSA assets?
Who needs ECHELON anymore!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
The morons that put critical data / control on outward facing servers deserve the hosing they get. Who in their right mind thinks it is a good idea to put a power station's control on a server that is even connected to the Internet? That is just the stupidest thing I have ever read.
I am more concerned about who they give physical access to the data / hardware are. All it takes is one vengeful employee and a thumb drive to lose very sensitive data. Worse, many companies that do lose data won't report the breach unless it involves a threat of lawsuit by irate customers. Then they will report it grudgingly and then only after days or even weeks and months have passed. Plenty of time for massive damage to be done.
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I suppose I have too much time on my hands, but I've noticed within the past few days, at Wikipedia, on some of the user talk pages, pages which give an IP address rather than a username, some of the pages for some of the tor node IP addresses, whether they are real tor nodes or not I didn't investigate, have had questionable material posted, some of the information appearing to be usernames/passwords, and CC/SS information, which legal agency do I contact on the matter?
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.
The male is completely egocentric, trapped inside himself, incapable of empathizing or identifying with others, or love, friendship, affection of tenderness. He is a completely isolated unit, incapable of rapport with anyone. His responses are entirely visceral, not cerebral; his intelligence is a mere tool in the services of his drives and needs; he is incapable of mental passion, mental interaction; he can't relate to anything other than his own physical sensations. He is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or receiving pleasure or happiness; consequently, he is at best an utter bore, an inoffensive blob, since only those capable of absorption in others can be charming. He is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes because, unlike the apes, he is capable of a large array of negative feelings -- hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, doubt -- and moreover, he is aware of what he is and what he isn't.
Although completely physical, the male is unfit even for stud service. Even assuming mechanical proficiency, which few men have, he is, first of all, incapable of zestfully, lustfully, tearing off a piece, but instead is eaten up with guilt, shame, fear and insecurity, feelings rooted in male nature, which the most enlightened training can only minimize; second, the physical feeling he attains is next to nothing; and third, he is not empathizing with his partner, but is obsessed with how he's doing, turning in an A performance, doing a good plumbing job. To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.
Eaten up with guilt, shame, fears and insecurities and obtaining, if he's lucky, a barely perceptible physical feeling, the male is, nonetheless, obsessed with screwing; he'll swim through a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him. He'll screw a woman he despises, any snaggle-toothed hag, and furthermore, pay for the opportunity. Why? Relieving physical tension isn't the answer, as masturbation suffices for that. It's not ego satisfaction; that doesn't explain screwing corpses and babies.
Completely egocentric, unable to relate, empathize or identify, and filled with a vast, pervasive, diffuse sexuality, the male is pyschically passive. He hates his passivity, so he projects it onto women, defines the make as active, then sets out to prove that he is (`prove that he is a Man'). His main means of attempting to prove it is screwing (Big Man with a Big Dick tearing off a Big Piece). Since he's attempting to prove an error, he must `prove' it again and again. Screwing, then, is a desperate compulsive, attempt to prove he's not passive, not a woman; but he is passive and does want to be a woman.
Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through an fuse with the female, and by claiming as his own all female characteristics --
WTF is spear phishing? Journalists need to stop making shit up. It doesn't make an article "cutting edge".
Just a matter of time before online crime became a threat to the good old-fashioned kind.
When governments or companies keep common data from common people, that is bad government. The data for the last four years of U.S. agricultural output is not on the Web. The reason could be that people would be greatly disgruntled were they to learn that food production growth has not kept pace with population growth.
These businessmen elect to run Windows. As such they make themselves prone to this kind of thing.
I do know how to spell "anonymity". Please don't savage me too badly, grammar Nazis. - Unassimilatible
This type of faggotry has no place here on Slashdot.
I think that we can all agree that niggers are on average a curse. But we don't neet faggots like you interjecting all your whiney bullshit in to these important discussions.
Niggers are generally criminal and you need to shut the fuck up.
Online Crime Facilitates Political, Business Growth.
Seriously, who profits from the stuff that makes the headlines? It sure isn't me; I'm only into grey-area piracy.
"Please describe the scientific nature of the 'whammy'" - Agent Scully
A wiki admin- a real one, not one of the many bureaucrats who's only status symbol is a "This user is an ADMIN" userbox. You could also go to to the copyright phone number, at least you'd likely get an employee... than a redshirt... http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Designated_agent
They may do nothing, but a random person on the internet isn't going to be able to do much. An admin (as I noted, a real one) for the site where it's posted is normally the best person to handle it. If not, maybe they could at least tell you what to do.
Great Intellect...
With all the whoohaa around hacking, phishing, cyber attacks and copyright infringement, I think it is very important to make sure when one talks about "Cyber Crime" there is a definite understanding of what exactly is being referred to.
If that is not done, dangerous grounds are set for criminalizing millions, oh wait, the RIAA is already doing that...
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Personally, I was extremely unsettled a few years ago when the spammer powers-that-be decided they wanted BlueSecurity shut down, and a bunch of DNS servers, Tucows and 4 other hosting providers, and SixApart/LiveJournal/TypePad fell as collateral damage.
Is that not *scarier* for business? Let's see -- I'm free to conduct my business... as long as I don't step on any toes in the organized crime world. 'Cause if I do, they're shutting me down whenever they feel like it, and there's not a damned thing I (or the supposed "protection" of the law) can do about it.
And of course, no power, once it exists, goes unused for very long. I see more and more stories about botnets used for extortion -- which is a bit trickier to carry out, since it's tough to get paid without a money trail, and law enforcement has more experience dealing with that -- but it's just another example. If they just want to squelch my business, it's incredibly easy.
[Addendum: oh look... the article points to cyber espionage as #3 in the SANS institute's top 10 threats of 2008; botnets are #2]
The internet has been an inconvenience to the gov, as it closes our open society and political system, moves to a fascist system.
See the Naomi Wolf YouTube interviews / lectures, read her book. This is one of many commentators who have finally understood that the US is now a police state. We don't yet have a crackdown on ordinary people, but the pressure on people who disagree with George Bush gets higher every year.
Democrats aren't interested in fixing this, they want to inherit.
So, expect a lot more attacks on the internet, and laws designed to 'fix the problem'.
See also these talks:
Crouching Powerpoint, Hidden Trojan
An analysis of targeted attacks from 2005 to 2007
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/track/Hacking/2189.en.html
Cybercrime 2.0
Storm Worm
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/track/Hacking/2318.en.html
Online Crime Scene as Growing Threat to Business, Politics couldn't understand what I was seeing for a second there.
Also, she asked me to deliver this message to you, although I don't understand it. She told me not to worry & that you would understand it:
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
This is where, presently, I would substantially differ with you: What is wrong with this picture? If you try and rationalise this situation, you are put in the position of "the good Germans". The worst are American Liberals - completely enabling the subversion of basic rights and law, through rational acceptance of evil. Try this on for size:
'Left' and 'Right' both complain that the Judicial and Executive Branches do not 'uphold' their un-Constitutional wishes to curtail others' means of Pursuit of Happiness. Meanwhile, I declare victory to the doctrine of 'Separation of Powers'
I'll post an unequivocal 'up yours' or 'Megadittoez' when I think I've caught up & disagree/agree, respectively/disrespectfully, as the case maybe.
All 19 hijackers were known terrorists 09-10-2001. Lack of FBI intelligence does not justify warrantless wiretaps..
All 19 hijackers were known terrorists 09-10-2001. Lack of FBI intelligence does not justify warrantless wiretaps..
Some guy on the Internet has totally figured out our small government fascism scheme!
Good one.
All 19 hijackers were known terrorists 09-10-2001. Lack of FBI intelligence does not justify warrantless wiretaps..
Also, that is so far beyond cynical, I wasn't expecting it.
All 19 hijackers were known terrorists 09-10-2001. Lack of FBI intelligence does not justify warrantless wiretaps..