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Hacker Sends Out Fake Tsunami Warning On Twitter
An anonymous reader writes "A Twitter account belonging to an official adviser of the Indonesian president has been broken into by a hacker who posted a warning that a tsunami was heading for Jakarta. Andi Arief is Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's disaster management adviser and a frequent user of Twitter. But when he lost control of his account, a tsunami warning was sent out to Twitter users."
Trusting twitter? Turn on the TV or radio. Perhaps check the meteorological service's website.
Sent from my PDP-11
Really, I don't. I barely trust any of my e-mails, too many I get are offers for things that are obviously not real, or they are simply "phishing" to try to see if they can convince me to visit their website.
Somebody once said we could get rid of the postal service by putting government services on the Internet, and I just cringed. It's bad enough worrying about fraud in the mail, but on the Internet? It's so much worse I don't even want to bother with anything truly important. You can lie to me all you want about the sport's scores, or the latest porn, but don't expect me to do real business.
People in responsible positions shouldn't be asshats about their passwords.
Sorry, asshat, next time don't have an easily guessable dictionary password and blame the rest of the world for your folly.
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It is all a matter of operator precedence:
fake (tsunami warning) versus (fake tsunami) warning
I am anarch of all I survey.
Personally, I resent people calling people like this hackers. There is a big difference from being curious to learn something new and being an idiot. This guy is being a jerk. Hackers learn an innovate. How much brain power does it take to post on Twitter? However, there is a part of me that wants to say that people should really check their sources and not believe something they read on a social networking site.
There are 10 commandments: 01)Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God 10)Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Matt22:34-40
I think this qualifies as terrorism. That the account may not have been secured well does not matter. Most terrorist targets are not secured well. This has the potential to cause panic and significant loss of life.
I hope they get this person and that the sentence will fit the potential damage.
To all those that think this is only a prank: It is about as much a prank as setting a building on fire. Occasionally stupid teenagers do this and then become murderers. This is similar. I do not see any reason for leniency.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
This just in, who gives a fuck it's twitter.
Catenate RSA of users public keys with RSA of private key of sender at sender end.
RSA with private key of user to see if any key matches, and RSA public key of sender at recipient end.
... Reiser?
What does murder have to do with computer crime?
Don't imply he did it. Reiser was framed!
Either you're being incredibly facetious or you're completely crazy. He eventually turned a deal where he lead the police to his wife's body as part of the deal. The evidence up to that point was pretty damning, but I believe that being able to locate the body should remove any remaining doubt as to his guilt.
Hackers learn an innovate
Which is the opposite of what the public does once they get a term defined for them, so how about hackers innovate themselves a new term. Net ninjas? Everybody likes ninjas these days, not much chance of someone hearing "net ninja" and thinking "Jerks like the one who raised a false tsunami alarm."
What if that isn't the real Hans at all? I think that he was kidnapped by aliens and cloned on behalf of the US Government, so they could eliminate competition for on of their puppet's projects, Sun's ZFS (this was back before Oracle bought them, and as a result they got Sun as well). Who would know where a body, that may have never lived in the first place, was besides Government satellites?
The only thing that doesn't add up is why they have brainwashed you to try discredit me....
"a warning that a tsunami was heading for Jakarta." ??? I must be missing something very obvious because I feel like this should not be the case! I appreciate the help so much...
And that helps - HOW?
I bet you - within a year of 'net ninjas' becoming an acceptable term for those 'good' hackers, the media will start using it for those that stealthily attack systems, and - say - post something on twitter. (Just so that the media will use the latest slang available).
It's an exercise in futility...
I, for one, do consider this to be a capital crime.
In the United States, where free speech is considered to be an inalienable right, it is nevertheless illegal to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
This stunt is like shouting "Fire!" in a million crowded theaters.
It seems almost inevitable that when the dust clears we will find that several innocent people took this offical government warning at face value, behaved as if there were a tsunami on the way, and died as a result.
By what moral, ethical, or legal argument would you consider the jackass who sent the false alarm not responsible for these deaths?
http://xkcd.com/756//
Oooh goody! You wouldn't believe how many politicians we could ki- oh, right. These rules would only apply to the rest of us.
THEY have killed her and than forced him to point body (THEY have let him know where it is first).
How do you know the hacker is Indonesian? I doubt that the US (for instance) would extradite him if it turned out to be an American kid.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I would not assume that "net ninjas" were benign, quite the opposite in fact.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Great defence there, I think you should pass it onto his lawyers in case they haven't thought of it.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
By what moral, ethical, or legal argument would you consider the jackass who sent the false alarm not responsible for these deaths?
Cue the libertardians in 3...2...
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
so how about hackers innovate themselves a new term.
You mean like something cool like Penetration Testers???
Go figure i just checked and this is already taken for something....
The man should be punished, but the official should also be punished accordingly and steps taken to prevent that from happening again.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
Twitter being used for anything more than "ahah I saw this hot chick who had 'pink' across the back of her shorts" is laughable.
Only a third world country would rely upon twitter as they're emergency broadcast system...
Next thing you know, their entire telco infrastructure will be based on Skype.
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Good point. Let's call ourselves "Fuzzy Bunnies".
" ... official should also be punished ... "
What crime did the official commit?
America, Home of the Brave.
Twitter was successfully used to find an outbreak of bird flu in China, 3 months b4 the Chinese government admitted there was a problem.
America, Home of the Brave.
http://xkcd.com/723/
"People don't want to learn linux" hasn't been a valid excuse since '03.
As opposed to whom, exactly? Please, do inform us of the country with greater free speech protections.
As opposed to no one. I said nothing about another country having more free speech protections. It's just that the term "free speech" doesn't make any sense if it's not absolute. It's more like "mostly free speech."
As for other countries, they're either the same or worse. Still, the situation could be better.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, New Zeland, estonia, Ireland, Denmark, Japan, Lithuania, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Germany, Australia, and even the United Kingdom. However, that's just by press freedom which almost completely ignores the consolidation of media interests in a few hands. The real story is in fact that many other countries should be rated higher than the states.
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I suggest you check your list again and this time go check the laws. Most, if not all, of those countries have laws that effect free speech against one or more of religion(s), the government, the past, food products, corporations, and many other things.
Absolute free speech is what you want? Are you sure about that? Have you thought through the consequences?
Consequences? Such as idiotic people believing every lie they hear? That's really the only 'consequence' that I see, and it can be solved by people researching on their own.
That said, any 'consequences' are worth it in order to gain true free speech. It's just becoming more and more restrictive, largely due to the stupidity of humans, not the fault of free speech.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Swings and roundabouts; the USA has laws against telling people about circumvention of technical measures; allows ostracism for supporting drugs or communism; allows restriction of speech on radio (e.g. by the FCC). Also speech may be restricted by contract.
You may answer that some of these restrictions are unconstitutional and that it is just because of the politicisation of the supreme court that they are allowed to continue, however that argument would also apply to similar restrictions in several of the countries. In real life the fact that the US legal system is so expensive puts legal redress beyond the reach of normal citizens in many cases.
After that, we end up with only the practice. The idea of restricting protesters to "free speech zones" as is done in the USA would be illegal in many of these countries.
The idea of the USA as a haven of free speech is outdated.
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