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Anonymous To Release Sun, News of the World Emails
siliconbits writes "After having hacked Rupert Murdoch's flagship news website, thesun.co.uk, and redirecting its readers to a spoof front page and pilfering its email servers, Anonymous' unofficial mouthpiece, Sabu, has revealed that the group is 'sitting on [the sun's & NOTW's] emails' with a press release from Anonymous & possibly more coming in a few hours. While that website has already been taken down, the email bounty is likely to be potentially more damaging with Sabu releasing details of two of the Sun's top three employees, Rebekah Wade and Bill Akass, the former editors of the Sun and News of the World respectively as well as Lee Wells & Danny Rogers, Editorial Support Manager at News International and Sun Online Editorial Manager respectively, as a taster of what's coming next."
This scandal keeps getting worse; it's like the "penis pump" scene from Austin Powers....
How could they do such a cruel thing to the good people at News of the World?!?!?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
While I'm quite enjoying what Anonymous/Lulzsec are doing, I hope it does not compromise the criminal investigations that are to follow.
Outfoxed!
"Love heals scars love left." -- Henry Rollins
When you can prove that wikileaks 'hacked' people. Publishing information from insiders is not same hacking. Try logic 101.
It was Lulzsec.
I agree with your post, but I have to admit that Anonymous is providing some guilt free schadenfreude....
when your server is hacked and people are cheering. It is all part of the fall of the house of hubris.
Civil Rights protesters can't be trusted -- If they're breaking the law by riding in the front of buses or participating in illegal protests speaking out the very laws that make such things illegal, or performing their "duty as a statesman" to overthrow an oppressive government (as mentioned in their original Declaration of Independence), then they can clearly NEVER be Trusted!
Are you now or have you ever been in violation of any law? Aha! Your vehicle exceeded the mandated speed limit! Your words are meaningless to me now!
Also: I do not abide by laws that are unjust, or logic that is flawed. Nor do I wait idly for the next blow from my assailant's fist.
Why is that hard to believe? It's not the case that it's suddenly become easier to hack servers, the issue is that more people have the knowledge required to do so (and that old vulnerabilities are left unpatched). I mean, some of the hacks have been basic SQL injection or URL vulnerabilities that any competent programmer would know how to avoid. Those crappy systems have been in place for a while, people are just now starting to exploit them for the hell of it. It could have been going on all this time by groups that weren't announcing that they were doing it, like the Chinese government.
I mean, consider this: when Citibank got "hacked" a while ago, and had account details stolen, do you know what the vulnerability was? The URL of the account page looked something like this:
www.citibank.com/my_account.asp?id=<your credit card number here>
All they did was change the number and, voila, it turns out that Citibank was not bothering to authorize the logged-in user to view the given account. Once you were logged in, you could view any account. That's not exactly world-class security, that's something that most kids on the w3schools forum could warn you about. It's an embarrassment that a financial company like Citibank would pay to have something like that built by someone who doesn't know what they're doing.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
When are they going to hack the US federal government and spread information far and wide about the Obama admin's gun running program(aka fast and the furious or project gunrunner), and attempt to violate the 2nd amendment. I'm going to guess never, but people will happily froth at the mouth over Murdoch when their own government was complicit in killing people, and enabling mexican cartels getting fire arms.
Om, nomnomnom...
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The depressing reality is that most security money these days is spent filling out paperwork, and getting exemptions where you don't meet the standards. That coupled with the fact that there's simply much, much, more stuff online now, makes hacking easier.
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The phone hackers destroyed no property, deprived no owners of any of its use. I don't think there is any real harm here.
NO HARM?! In case you missed the details of the original case that started the whole firestorm...
In 2002, Milly Dowler was kidnapped, then murdered later. When she went missing, News of the World hacked her phone. Seeing her voice mailbox was full, they deleted some messages (deleting potential evidence) so they could maybe get some new information. Meanwhile, the police saw that 'Milly' accessed her phone mailbox, so they downgraded her case, treating her as a low priority runaway. That meant that critical time tracking her was lost that could've got the police to her sooner and potentially saved her life.
No harm indeed...
Although the army did have explicit order not to harm civillians back then.
.. the British preferred not to confront him because they realised he was the last barrier holding much more radically minded people at bay, and if he's removed, there will be an open, violent revolution. A threat of force is often more effective than the force itself after all.
Interestingly , the whole overblowing of the Tianamen square events has only recently been exposed by wikileaks
As an aside, passive resistance has never accomplished much. Worker's movement didn't achieve 8 hour working time by bending down their heads and politely voicing discontent, for example - they did so by a series of massive strikes.
I expect you are going to come up with Gandhi, but even he didn't