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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.
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 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
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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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.
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.
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.
And *you* could win a special meeting with the boys from Seal Team Six in the comfort of your very own home.