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HBGary Hack In Depth
Udo Schmitz writes "Heise's UK site has the English translation of an article from the latest issue of their magazine c't about Anonymous's HBGary hack. It shows that there was much more involved than just social engineering to get passwords, and how anonymous evolved following OpTunisia and OpEgypt."
Many people would have you believe that there is nothing whatsoever the Black people can do about racism, that it is something the White people are
going to do no matter what, that it is not something the Black people have any control over. They would tell the Black man that he is powerless in
this case, a helpless victim who can do nothing to help his plight. It is especially disturbing when this message comes from those who are otherwise
a friend of the Black man. Like Liberalism, it is a childish conception of the world that, while well-meaning, renders its believers powerless over
their own life experience due to its own short-sightedness.
So what can Black people do to effectively end racism? First, they can stop assuming that White people are inherently racist. To assume that a
person is full of hatred or judgment towards others merely because of his or her light skin color is to engage in the very racism they claim to be
against. Racism of that sort won't end racism, no more than gasoline will put out a fire. So we can abandon this failed idea and look to the things
White people see that make them think less of the Black man. These are some steps that Black people can unite and take together if they really want
to end racism:
notice that the violent crimes committed by Black people is higher than any other single racial/ethnic group when adjusted for their percentage of
the population, what are they supposed to think? If you don't want to be regarded as a savage people who were brought out of the tribal jungle too
soon and haven't yet learned to cope with the whole civilized society thing, please stop acting the part.
Black men, if you don't even care about your own children enough to let them know who you are, if you think so little of them, how is the White man
going to argue with you? Parenting is easily the most important responsibility any adult is likely to ever have, and you abandon it willingly. What
are White people supposed to think when you do this far more than any other single racial/ethnic group? Do you think it makes you respectable? When
even their own fathers shunned them, oes it surprise anyone that such bastard children are far more likely to be incarcerated, far less likely to go
to college?
abusing women, abusing drugs, stealing, murdering, etc., it doesn't make White people think you're a good human being. It doesn't make White people
respect you. It makes them think you're a menace, and when the media helps you spread this message and it influences impressionable White youth, it
makes them think you're a contagious menace, like any other disease or infestation. Anyone who wants to hate you for your skin color will feel
justified by all of this.
Jews and many, many others have unfortunately suffered some kind of racial or ethnic discrimination. Yet they don't top the charts on violent crime
statistics. They don't have tons of bastard children. They don't glorify being a thug. The Asians in particular have had a great deal of success
because they highly value education. The Jews have amassed financial empires that are the envy of many Capitalists. They all have something in
common. When they fail, they blame their own bad decision-making. When they succeed, they attribute it to their hard work. They take personal
responsibility for their situation, and if it sucks, they work to improv
HBGary's systems were just riddled with security holes. From URL parameters that weren't scrubbed to straight MD5 password hashing to using the same password for several (and possibly many) accounts on different systems (servers, email, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc). I'm sure glad something as important as our government didn't use their security services. Oh, wait ... D'oh!
must be some reason for all this censorship/nonsensical use of robbIEs patentdead PostBlock devise/goon style vandalism? no?
Check out Ars Technica's coverage, much much better
I just wonder if Skynet can be powered by human brain cells.
Also a lot of other sci-fi stuff comes to mind, including Azimov's Foundation.
They're the sexiest Hydra alive today. .gov can't stand it.
ALL happy/pink/chubby/well armed/ordained etc... we are in the clip? no surprise there? are we sleek or what?
Why do I get the feeling HBGary is just filling the void left by SCO as Slashdot's "villain to post about in the absence of real news"?
The only surefire protection against Microsoft infections is abstinence. - The Onion
We can all be anonymous. It helps to really know what you're doing, it helps to have no "skeletons" in the closet, it helps to have some passion about what's happening in the world and to want to do something about it. Who's in control? Does that matter? We all can be anonymous.
---Jack O
Don't bother reading this article, it's horribly written and not particularly correct. They make it sound like HBGary Federal was some giant security company when in reality is was a small-time 4 person company. Oh my god you broke into a 4 person company's email and the idiot manager's twitter account!
So tired of seeing this "hack" replayed on Slashdot.
hbgary was foolish. hbgary got punked.
we all laughed.
NEXT!
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Barak Hussain Obama, President of the United States of America, is evil.
We need OpObama to show:
1) verbatum transcripts of the telephone communicaitons of Obama and leaders in Egypt, Tsunisa, Libya, Yemin, Saudi Arabia and Brihan.
2) US Treasury transactions to accounts owned by leadears in Egypt, Tsunisa, Libya, Yemin, Saudi Arabia and Brihan. For the War Crimes Trial an important element is the timing of the monetary transcations.
With these we could very well send Barak Hussain Obama to hang on a Gallows.
-308
PS. 3 million people world wide are praying for the death of Barak Hussain Obama. In 20 days, how many people will be added?
This just in:
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, through extensive testing of Barak Hussain Obama's sperm have determinted that President Obama is an "It". This means that President Barak Hussain Obama is not a human, homo sapians or any other living creature.
This means that local laws, state laws, federal laws and international laws do not in fact pertain to President Barak Hussain Obama. The CDC suggests that President Obama can therefore be killed or as should be stated, exterminated, without regard to legal statutes.
From the CDC, "The 'IT' formerly known as President Barak Hussain Obama, is not human and can be exterminated at the earliest convient time.
3 Cheers for the brave humans of the CDC.
-308
Seriously, Taco, just turn the site into an RSS portal with a comments section. The horrid summaries, old news and dupes are not helping.
Slashdot was ahead of the game 12 years ago, but now it's a dying horse. Time to try something new.
No sig for you!!
Wrong:
Hoglund's inbox contained the root password for his rootkit.com security web site
Correct:
Hoglund's inbox contained an old root password for his rootkit.com security web site
So Anonymous also social-engineered the new root password. FTW!
Doesnt this spark anything in the minds of the local hackers and crackers out there? security in buisnessess are low. why? The fear of being hacked is unfeasible because people who dont know what they are doing trust people who say they know what they are doing but accually are being payed to watch the "ping" and "pong" of packets between two servers in the company. Time to start hacking again...make the government quake at the mention of hackers like what used to happen. My suggestion....packet flood a net of IP addresses in your local area so the "geek squad" is focused on that then...your sort of free.
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