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LulzSec Debunks UK Census Hack
Earlier this morning we reported that an arrest had been made relating to the hacker group LulzSec.
mask.of.sanity notes "Hacking group LulzSec has poured cloud water on claims that it had stolen UK Census data and was preparing to release the records. 'Just saw the pastebin of the UK census hack. That wasn't us — don't believe fake LulzSec releases unless we put out a tweet first,' the group said from its official Twitter account."
So after they put out a Tweet, do believe fake LulzSec releases.
cloud water?
How can you prove who you are when you're anonymous? Well, I guess there's always a public key.
Use a public key, you dorks.
How do we know anyone is speaking for the real LulzSec?
let's see some ID
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Or denies? Because there's a big difference between the two, and I believe it's the latter.
Isn't it cold water? To pour cold water on something, to debunk it.
Cloud water is rain.
...I think I've had that
no matter how good your friends are, don't share your water bottle
Yeah. Idioms are apparently confusing to a lot of people, especially if they heard them wrong initially and run with it. Had an ex that refused to believe that it was a "temper tantrum" and not a "tantertantrum." Or the more mainstream moo point.
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
I wrote it off as a tech pun on the Cloud.
by Anonymous Coward: I, for one, welcome the shift from car analogies to pizza analogies. um.. overlords?
Dear submitters,
If you don't know what a specific word or figure of speech means, OR how it's spelled, DON'T use it. I beg of you.
To loosely quote Stewie, "Anyone caught using the terms 'irregardless,' 'a whole nother,' or 'all of the sudden' will be put in work camps.”
.. considering how such authorities make stuff up so to fabricate an enemy... you'd think they would better understand how foolish they appear at taking down one or a few people. i.e. Orlando Florida keeps arresting people for feeding the homeless... so haven't that gotten the ring leader yet?
Yeah. Idioms are apparently confusing to a lot of people, especially if they heard them wrong initially and run with it. Had an ex that refused to believe that it was a "temper tantrum" and not a "tantertantrum." Or the more mainstream moo point.
Je suid d'accord. I was searching for some specs on Heat Shrink Tubing when I encountered "Approcations" I wasn't familiar with the word, thinking it was "Engrish", so I did a search on Approcations and found it not to be not just one misspelling/misuse/confusion, but at least two. In this instance it should be Applications and in at least one other the meaning was for Appreciation.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Haha! I knew what that moo point link would be before I even clicked it :-)
Perhaps the arrest by the UK police earlier has put some fear in to them so they are now trying to act like they haven't hacked the UK census in a desparate attempt to fend off the police.
This whole thing is a bit of a damp squid.
"We live in a global world" - Harvey Pitt, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
Technically, they didn't debunk or refute, they rebutted. The first two require acceptable evidence, the latter says "I didn't do it, so there!"
Respect, sir! :-)
Cloud water... hmmm... that sounds marketable!
I will bend like a reed in the wind.
"Your honor, I didn't do the crime. I would have tweeted about it. Just like I did for all my other crimes. See?"
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s/[stupid comments]/[intelligent discourse]/gi
This whole thing is a bit of a damp squid.
Not if you put it up on a pedal stool...
Technically, they didn't debunk or refute, they rebutted. The first two require acceptable evidence, the latter says "I didn't do it, so there!"
They refuted.
To rebut they must have initially been asserted to be the responsible party.
Claiming they are not the one and same who claimed responsibility is refuting.
and don't even get me started on prebutals.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
This sometimes get mixed up when they translate from the UK press to the American Press.
A former employer of mine used to (well, probably still does) say something was a "mute point". It grated on my nerves every time he said that.
Weren't we told that this was being managed by a highly secure, terribly efficient American corporation, and there was absolutely no danger of our personal data being hacked into and released on the internet?
Korma: Good
BBC News are reporting however that there were intrusions in CIA and SOCA. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13859868 "Metropolitan Police's e-crimes unit had confirmed the raid was linked to the recent intrusion attacks on the websites of the CIA and Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca)." Just slack journalism or is this now a fact? I thought they previously said it was DDOS and nothing was intruded upon or compromised.
Korma: Good
A former employer of mine used to (well, probably still does) say something was a "mute point". It grated on my nerves every time he said that.
What? You didn't take the opportunity to point out that "mute" means STFU?
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
News organizations are failing at due diligence these days. Gotta keep feeding those profit margins, no time for fact-checking, no calling up the UK census and asking about a breach. Nope, just release whatever you read on a random pastebin and fire away!
This is why I get breaking news from Twitter feeds. The journalism quality is just as good (or bad).
for all intensive porpoises she was right
sorry, Apple owns it
I don't usually post off-topic...but...
Joey: It's a moo point.
Chandler: I'm sorry...moo point?
Joey: Yeah, it's like a cows opinion - it doesn't matter. It's moo.
A former employer of mine used to call them "vanilla folders".
Except it's Rachel, not Chandler :-)
"I could care less" is my favourite since it actually means the exact opposite of "I couldn't care less".
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC