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FBI Raids Texas ISP For Anonymous DDoS Info
jcombel writes with this link to The Smoking Gun, which says "As part of an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, the FBI has raided a Texas business and seized a computer server that investigators believe was used to launch a massive electronic attack on PayPal."
Computerworld has a story, as well.
You have to get a license to legally make a street protest which shuts down traffic, in most places.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I get the feeling we're about to see Weather Underground 2.0. FBI and friends rounding up subversives, cooking up various stories/evidence/results and both sides getting more and more serious until things go bad.
Anonymous will, I suggest, become the 21st century hippies once more and more tangential interests come aboard, and before you know it a few radical offshoot groups will take on the government in a serious way. Cyberthreats the like of government talk are bullshit, but people with technical knowhow and a bit of time can scuttle bureacracy gone bad, ala various leakings. I don't properly (beyond some scrapings of the history) know the who or what of 1969 onward and how right each side of the government-hippy fence was.. but I'm around for this fight, I'm a witnessing some disturbing trends that displease me greatly and can't say I side with the government being right.
In the cosmic irony department, the captcha for this post is "unfair".
What could possibly go wrong?
Paypal: the "bank" that somehow gets away with not having to be regulated like a bank and treated like a bank, despite looking like a bank and acting like a bank.
DDoS attacks suck but in this case, nothing of value was lost.
So I'm assuming that we are going to see a probe by authorities into the "patriots" behind the wikileaks DDOS attacks next?
To discourage others from operating infrastructure that can aid in DDoS attacks? This kind of high visibility move tends to invoke certain emotions among people who might be otherwise inclined to assist in some criminal enterprise. Whoever owned that server is probably not having a good week right now, and it's clear that simply operating some seemingly benign infrastructure that aids in a conspiracy to commit a crime is something that can get your equipment seized and your ass in hot water.
Isn't it amazing that the FBI can get their arses into gear over Anonymous, while allowing thousands of other criminal operations to use US based servers without disturbance. I am constantly horrified by the number of malicious sites operating out of the mainland US that are clearly operating in plain sight.
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All of which amounts to the government bullying legitimate businesses for doing nothing illegal. How is this even close to acceptable?
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You mean there ARE banks which were are required to do business with
... you're confusing FDIC insurance and the accompanying regulations with being bailed out, which are completely different things.
No, I don't mean that and you know it. But if you want to do business with a bank that, for example, offers you FDIC protected checking accounts, then you looking for a different sort of service provider. PayPal isn't in that line of work.
And, on your other comment
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