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Hacker Group LulzSec Challenges FBI

Posted by Soulskill on from the getting-down-to-business dept.

Tiek00n writes "Hacker Group 'LulzSec' has gained some attention recently for their hacks of PBS and Sony. Their most recent target: FBI affiliate Infragard. The group claims, 'It has come to our unfortunate attention that NATO and our good friend Barrack Osama-Llama 24th-century Obama have recently upped the stakes with regard to hacking. They now treat hacking as an act of war. So, we just hacked an FBI affiliated website (Infragard, specifically the Atlanta chapter) and leaked its user base. We also took complete control over the site and defaced it...'"

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  1. Thay also defaced Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or is Slashdot slashdotted? These 503 errors have been happening for a couple of days now.

    1. Re:Thay also defaced Slashdot by Qzukk · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdot has so many gurus meditating, the entire damn datacenter had better be levitating a mile off the ground.

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  2. Re:Clear acts of War by Warmlight · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's not law but the Declaration of Independence says:

    ...that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence....

    Again, it's not law but it is one of the documents on which our country is based.

  3. This is bound to end well... by Zero1za · · Score: 5, Funny

    (and by well, I mean with prison sex).

  4. Re:Haha by pipatron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You haven't read 1984? The government need the excuse of a permanent war against an unspecified enemy in order to get away with most anything, making it easy to approve tax hikes, keeping operations secret in the name of state security, and keeping the citizens in place. A few decades ago you had the "Communists". Up until recently you had the "Terrorists". In a decade you'll have the "Hackers". Since they do not really exist in any tangible or organized way they can not be beaten and they are no real threat, but they are useful for scaring the population.

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  5. Re:Just a bully by Idbar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For what is worth. As I recall correctly from my youth, in a battle between bullies, kicking them while they are down seems like a right approach. You shouldn't give them the chance to stand back up, because you know they will be really pissed.

  6. Re:Clear acts of War by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Informative

    You, sir, are a coward. Show me an example of someone winding up on a no-fly list as a result of peaceable assembly. Yeah, I didn't think you had anything.

    http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-enemy-of-people.html

    "Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that." I explained that I had not so marched but had, in September, 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the Web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the Constitution. "That'll do it," the [American Airlines clerk] said. "

    That's just the first result off of google.
    If you don't think people aren't being put on the no-fly list for asserting their right to free speech and to publicly assemble, you haven't been paying attention.

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  7. Re:working by the_other_chewey · · Score: 5, Informative

    This rule in Adblock Plus takes care of it:

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