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Anonymous Hack One Gigabyte of Data From NATO
GeekTech.in writes "The AnonymousIRC hacking organization have claimed this afternoon that they have hacked into NATO servers. As one of their tweets says: ' Yes, #NATO was breached. And we have lots of restricted material. With some simple injection. In the next days, wait for interesting data :) '"
I know, it's a stupid question but I have to ask it. Why are government and military servers and computers that store sensitive data connected to the internet at all. Shouldn't they be on isolated local networks only?
One gets the impression that this new hack is a direct response to the arrest reports. It certainly makes the feds look foolish claiming to have nabbed them.
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Makes you wonder though... what would the world be like if people were actually held responsible for their actions and were not able to do things anonymously. Wouldn't that mean that Anonymous should eventually be self exposing?
(I'm not saying it's right/wrong/etc. Just wondering.)
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
The thing is, they are not picking targets and then hacking them, rather they are mass scanning to see what is vulnerable then picking through the list to find stuff they find interesting. With that said, you would expect a military organization not to be the "low hanging fruit".
I hear this sentiment a lot, but it would imply that the Chinese government is more competent than Western governments who allow for this type of fuck up in the first place.
Is there any evidence that Chinese public sector is somehow more competent than that in the West?
It's quite possible that the opposite is true, that the Chinese are managing to acquire fuck all, and that Chinese government systems themselves are equally vulnerable.
Say what you want about wikileaks but they understood media/marketing. Releasing so much stuff so frequently makes it difficult for the media to absorb and create a media frenzy, which is the only way the plebes ever even hear about stuff like this.
That used to be true. Its not longer true. The largest media outlets created data warehousing applications which allow them to not only comb through these large data releases, but allows them to locate and follow trails of subject matter in which they are interested. It even allows them to discover sub topics, and so on.
Literally, if these groups claim they are not releasing all of their information because media can't digest it, its a lie and is only self serving.
Anyone else notice a lot of shit which Wikileaks was suppose to release was never released in spite of the fact people are still manning the shop? Wikileaks existed solely to benefit, blackmail, extort, and steal information. The fact the information was never released seems to hint it was sold to the highest bidder. Otherwise, according to their claims, a lot of CEOs should be jail by now.
A recent Chinese military airshow featured a brand new stealth fighter (flying prototype), with features and performance of amazing similarity to our US F-22 Raptor. Ooops.
I think we've already seen what govt sponsored Chinese hackers can do!
Of course the majority of people have nothing "but the best intentions" at heart.
However, my point was if we're going to start attempting to make these "anon" people start owning up for their actions let's start with the ones committing actual atrocities. You know the ones covering up the things Anon uncovers.
And I'm not sure if we watched the same video, but the boys in that one firing the guns didn't seem too hesitant about killing those people. I don't think they're losing any sleep.
My boyfriend is in the marines (gay), so I know a few people in the forces (now that that's out of the way).