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Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-Mail Accounts
jjp9999 writes "Anonymous Operations posted 90,000 military email addresses and passwords to the Pirate Bay on July 11, in what they're calling 'Military Meltdown Monday.' They obtained the emails while hacking government contracting and consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. They hinted at other information obtained during the breach, which they describe as 'maps and keys for various other treasure chests buried on the islands of government agencies, federal contractors and shady whitehat companies.' The breach comes just days after Anonymous hacked government contractor IRC Federal. Both breaches are linked to the new AntiSec movement, which LulzSec joined forces with shortly before disbanding."
I don't think I'll be grabbing that torrent...
That name itself just screams trustworthiness, doesn't it? I know I would happily hand over my secrets to someone named Booz to keep confidential and secured.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Not sure when this is going to end. Maybe Operating Systems needs to be redesigned with built in security.
still quite strong. yet more proof that MAFIAA can't win!
Anonymous has an agenda. That's fine. Originally they were after Scientology. If they've shifted focus, I have no problem with that. If they're trying to become another Wikileaks and expose government wrongdoing, that also makes sense.
What I don't understand is the wholesale posting of email addresses and passwords. What are they trying to accomplish? Military or not, these are email addresses of real people. This is no longer a crusade against "bad guys" whoever they may be, or even against bad activities. This is now a crusade against privacy. You know, the concept that keeps Anonymous, well, anonymous.
If we use exactly the same standard that they use to judge what should be public information, then the names, email addresses, and passwords of everyone who calls himself/herself Anonymous should be public as well.
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How does releasing email addresses and passwords aid the fight for good and thwart evildoers? They should go back to the Scientology thing.
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
You can still collect IP addresses with an HTTP download.
I just can't help but think what has changed recently which might explain the flood of all these high profile attacks.
A critical mass of stupidity? (OWASP greatest fails)
TLA false flagging for 1984 legislation?
Two hacking groups (lulz and anon) with nothing better to do?
Whatever the reason I hope people are taking this opportunity to wake up.
The recording industry really, really7 sux. Evil city Their RIAA, too. Please, go after them. These guys are on our side.
No, but the Feds can.
Leaking information on current and former US military personnel is just going to fan the flames of "shut everything down" in Congress.
People keep poking at the bear and eventually it's going to wake up and rip things apart.
Yes, I know its from a military contractor, that distinction will be lost on Congress.
You got to hand it to them: These blackhat/lulz Hacker types sure do have some balls. I'd be scared shitless to pull such a stunt, even if I *did* have the information. I'd be super-ultra-extreme paranoid and cover my tracks many times over. I actually wouldn't know where to start when attemting that.
Probably something like this:
1. Multiple levels of undetected low-profile unix breakins to start off a botnet.
2. Multiple levels of botnets on top of that to finally hack the systems involved in the attack and breach, using totally different malware strategies as to go undetected among the usual hodge-podge of criminal botnets.
3. Low-profile IDS on all levels to scout for detection or suspicious tracing activity 24/7.
4. Encrypted, low-profile bit-by-bit intrusion and trickle-data-grab over weeks or months.
5. Complete rollback and teardown of the entire network with IDS remaining on the last lines of defense (see 1.) ready to send out signals if someone comes for you.
6. Wait. A long time.
7. Release data and press release over simularly complex channels.
Imagine what happens to you if the CIA or some other 3-letter blackops finds out where you're at. Your life is pretty much over then.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
And messing up Libya. I wonder what that tells about them.
With HTTP you have one peer - the HTTP server. With torrent you have many peers. In both cases they have access to your IP address. So it depends on how much you trust the server.
The reason they use torrent and not HTTP for stuff like this is because
A) they don't want to pay for the bandwidth of serving that file to thousands of people, nor to be able to be traced to that server.
B) Free HTTP sharing sites have bandwidth limits, rat people out, and are a general PITA.
C) With bitorrent there is less centralization so it is harder to stop distribution of the file.
Wouldn't it be best to use Tor to distribute it?
The hosting server can. An arbitrary client can't hop on and grab a list of everyone else downloading it at the same time, though.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Don't be dense. This is Lulzsec. They're just calling themselves Anonymous to get some form of protection.
You can still use TOR if you need to.
On the one hand, the military and its contractors are assholes for exposing tens of thousands (and surely more) of military people's accounts to cracking and outing.
On the other hand, Anonymous is assholes cracking and outing tens of thousands (and surely more) of military people's accounts.
That's both hands assholes. Have you noticed that everyone in public life these days is an asshole?
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That's right - the certainty of vast damage, perhaps triggering armageddon, is worth the annoyances, risks, and comparatively tiny damages of fixing security bugs.
You're an idiot.
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TOR is an end-user decision. Host it on the web and the people downloading it could use TOR, but you don't really specifically distribute via TOR.
What you're talking about is more akin to Freenet.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Do I understand this correctly? A group of grinning show-offs decided to Crack information from another group of people that routinely travel the planet murdering other people, no matter how well hidden the victims are?
good luck
It's "Tor", and you can host anonymously with "hidden services".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
What these guys are doing now is mush more serious and may get them killed instead of jailed. They are playing Espionage Vs the US military. Selling,or giving or using for there own benefit military data that doesn't belong to them might get them a date with a firing line. And guess what, im all for it. Just because you CAN do something doesn't make it the right thing to do. If you want to play you better be ready to pay and some of theses guys might pay an ultimate price. Time will tell
Jack of all trades,master of none
I guess Allen Hamilton will really be hitting the Booz!
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
Not as ironic as Standard & Poor's.
That's not ironic its descriptive for a credit rating agency. Either you make their arbitrary standard you'll be poor...just ask the Greek Government.
Didn't some top ranking official recently say something about an internet "Pearl Harbor?" You see, this isn't Anonymous, or any other basement hackers looking for lulz in all the wrong places. This is the fucking government working to tighten control over the internet.
The security problem as I see it is that some people want computers to be able to know who is using them, and have built their business and defense models as though this were the case. Un/fortunately, people are cleverer than computers and some people don't want to tell the computer who they are. You can build any software and hardware measures you like and this will still be the case. Computer networks are insecure. Enjoy this time my friend. There might come a day when computers get cleverer than us and will actually be securable. Having an internet composed of computers cleverer than we are might not be as nice as it might seem.
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I marvel at your enlightened view of the world. But without proof, your views could never be verified. Please, have someone video tape you walking up to a sleeping tiger, and with all your worldly understanding, kick said tiger where the sun don't shine. If the person taping you is a close friend, suggest using a wide angle lens...
Tell that to to her.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I'd say it depends on the implementation. And a few people like this aren't enough to convince me that it's worse than the current system.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Well yes, you get the surgery, then when the bill comes you file bankruptcy; of course with her student loans, inability to work she'd get Medicaid to pay for her health needs and probably SSI too.
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
Fear makes the wolf look bigger
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Oh yeah? How do you know that they aren't really some chinese special ops who convinced all you gwailo anons to do their work for them?
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None of the countries that have free healthcare have a military(specific portions of the militaries notwithstanding.) that is at all worth a damn. Moreover, in order to build up a military that could do anything, they would have to gut their social programs, including their free healthcare. The idea that if the US military became completely ineffective except at defending the US that everything would be hunky-dory is fucking delusional. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the conflits that would flare up would make the current situation look like a walk through the fucking park.
Hmm... odd, I live in a country not too different from what you describe. We have "free" health care (read: I pay for it with my taxes), we have one of the lowest crime rates in the western world, unemployment is manageable (and you can actually survive on your unemployment aid), I am looking at 4 weeks of paid vacation (mandatory, not 'cause I am so incredibly qualified that I can afford asking for it), 2 extra salaries per year (mandatory again), my retirement is taken care for (again, taxes)... yet I do not pay 120% taxes or can't get any goods in our stores because nobody wants to produce or sell anything here. Odd, ain't it?
And know what? While the economy crisis did hit my country too, it didn't hit it by any kind of margin as hard as it did hit the US or other countries that subscribed to the ideal of "letting the market sort crap out". Why? Because people here actually do have money to buy crap. More to the point, to buy services. And since my country, like most of the "civilized" world, depend heavily on services for its GDP, our economy is still fairly stable. Services is the first thing people cut back when money is tight. A haircut? Put that off another few weeks. Fix the plumbing? Hell, let that faucet drip. Go out for dinner or the pub? Rather cook at home or watch the game with friends in your living room. That's what crippled the economy in most other countries, because people lack the MONEY to buy those services. You cannot cut back on food. You have to eat. You cannot cut back on your rent, you have to squat somewhere. But you can cut back on "vanity" like haircuts, repairs or a night on the town. We didn't have to. We still got money in the pockets of our working class people.
So please, keep your perfect system. I like the US, the dollar's weaker than a chocolate coin in the hot summer sun and that means I get to buy cheap electronics with my, despite all odds, fairly stable currency.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Congratulations on unearthing the case where "our" system failed.
One thing this system does is to increase the workload on you, the patient. That's the unfortunate truth and that means that you actually have to be more self-dependent than in a system where you pay for the operations and hence call the shots. Not less. You have to take care that you went to the right doctors at the right time to get the right diagnosis so they know that you actually need that operation. It's true that you cannot simply go up to your MRT tech and demand an examination. Why? Because you don't pay for it, and the entity paying for it wants to make sure that you're not going there because you think "phhht, not my money, why should I care?". You go to your general practitioner, have him examine you and send you there. The same applies to operations. You don't go to the hospital and demand one, you get the necessary examinations done and if the need exists you get your operation. My guess can only be that she didn't do that.
The system certainly isn't perfect. No system is. Still I'm fairly convinced that this is a very rare case compared to cases where people have to pay for operations themselves, cannot afford them and die because of it, or have the operation performed and go bankrupt over it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Strong pro military comments here. It would be better if A. only hacked the emails of high military leaders, up from a General, but it's just against the law to hack the email accounts, think about it this way:
If I bunch of teenagers could do it, so can other states do it. Who knows how long the email accounts are actually already hacked by China or N. Korea. Now A. exposed the security hole and at least the military needs to change their passwords.
Also the US military are not good Samaritans. Who known how much dirt someone can find in their emails, like contracts to the industry, killing people, torture, etc.
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Get with the times, man, the guys we don't like are labeled terrorists today.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Don't think so. I could China see say "Dammit, why did they have to? Now they might tighten their security and when we need to get in it's gonna be harder".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You're still assuming some kind of organization in the whole mess. Anonymous is no "group" in the common sense, and I somehow doubt that LulzSec is. It's a bunch of people who sail under the same flag, but that doesn't make them a nation.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Do America a favor and do NOT do it!
When it's time for war with China, the last thing you need is that they got a heads-up that their systems were insecure.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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And *you* could win a special meeting with the boys from Seal Team Six in the comfort of your very own home.
It's not fair that the US is the only one who gets hacked like that, they should hack all countries equally. I'm sure my own country has plenty of dirty laundry as do many others. Especially China.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
I've said this many times before, but that line of reasoning makes me sick to my stomach. Don't piss of the people in charge or they will punish us worse? Are we slaves afraid of our master?
If this fans the flames, great, at least it will push the corruption and tyranny faster so that people will notice it rather than continuing to allow it to creep along giving people time to grow accustomed to it.
How is aiding the rebels, even bombing Kadaffy's forces, messing up Libya?
The rebels are no filthier than Kadaffy's loyalists. Only a minority of Americans ever vote in our elections. Who are these religious fanatics?
Aren't you just a Kadaffy loyalist?
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html
And messing up Libya? Libya was up to now one of the more prosperous African countries, with a semi-decent standard of living, even compared to places like south african republic. It also has a large amount of gold, and also wasn't particularly happy about selling oil to the americans. This , as usual is just another instance of installing a government that is at least for now supposed to have deep ties to CIA and as such will bow to US whims.
As for the elections... that points a flaw in so-called "democracy" in the USA, and definitely isn't an argument for the insurgents. You might as well be telling that being fat is healthy since a large amount of americans is obese.
Tell that to to her.
You Daily Fail.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I live in the UK, and we don't have "free" healthcare. I's pauid for out of taxes. Critics always use the term "free healthcare" to imply there's something magic about it, but there's not. Out of all the things you can spend taxes on (aircraft carriers with no aircraft on, soldiers onthe other side of the world joining in with the US's petty crusade against the Taliban) healthcare is one of the most justified.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
If you seriously think that worldwide occupation by US military is the only thing standing between the continental USA being taken over by marauding invaders, I'm sorry but you are the delusional one. These conflicts you somehow claim would flare up are simply the result of your overactive imagination.
Military structures are in Tripolis. IMO the mandate would include a direct attack on Gaddafi as well since he has proven himself to pose quite a threat to the civilian population.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
. IMO the mandate would include a direct attack on Gaddafi as well since he has proven himself to pose quite a threat to the civilian population. I bet this comes from the same idea dump as that drone-bombing isn't an act of war, just a support role ,and as such there's no need for a congress mandate.
Leaking information on current and former US military personnel is just going to fan the flames of "shut everything down" in Congress.
It actually wouldn't surprise me if this particular leak were part of a counter-intelligence operation to discredit anon and accomplish just that. It's the kind of thing I would do if I were the NSA/CIA/FBI and wanted to garner public support for taking on anon. There have been several leaks and activities of late that I suspect weren't actually initiated by anon themselves, but were part of efforts to tar them.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
When are people going to get that Anonymous is not a single entity? The same people doing the Scientology stuff are not the same ones doing this are not the same ones laughing at pictures of cats with funny captions. They're all different people who call themselves "anonymous" because it fits: they're random people who aren't giving away their names.
The name associated with this post is "anonymous coward;" do you think I'm going out and protesting Scientology, hacking government emails, and laughing at pictures of cats with funny captions? Maybe the last one just a little.
Carter? CARTER?!!!
The man builds houses for the poor brown peoples for Habitrail for Humanities majors.
He's an engineer. A nuklear engineer. Hell, that's almost a rocket sciecetamist or brain sturgeon.
He put solar panels on the Whitehouse roof and raised awareness of the conservation of energy.
He was elected in reaction to Nixon.
Aside for the supporting the Palestinians (wait isn't support for Israel on of the tenants of the evil corrupt machine?...), the guy doesn't seem like a agent of the lizard people.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Wish I had mod points.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. --Aldous Huxley
I'm not going to quote logical fallacies to you or use odd home/car/bank analogies. Nope. I'll adapt an old cliche: "If all your friends act like dicks and steal personal information, should you?"
And what the fsck have they accomplished anyway? Do I know what's going on in Area 51 or what the Chinese Premier's secret world domination plans are? No, I know that the Neverwinter Nights forum and a shit-ton of secondary servers aren't well protected. Mein Gott! Who knew that many systems, some important, aren't locked down tighter than a virgin at a promise-ring concert.
and says they have a 'cyber warfare' division...they need to step their game up big time.
Appreciated. I'm continually surprised at how establishment friendly /. has become. Years ago it was much more anti-establishment. These days, you speak the truth against corporation, you get modded right down... :(
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
OTOH, you posted your comment from a (relatively) reliable and affordable internet connection that probably is able to do unrestricted web searches. Could be worse.
..................not that we should ever stop trying to make it better.
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Shit : not given.
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Genie ->bottle ; not going to happen.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
The Swiss, Israel, France and Japanese have good free or nearly free healthcare and all have good militaries.
The UK and Canada also have good healthcare but are letting costs spiral out of control and it's greatly impacting military spending.
A non issue if you use Tor or something alike... Though you can use it for non-http protocols as well I should think...
In capitalist USA corporations control the government.