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Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks
tsamsoniw writes "PNC, Bank of America, SunTrust, and other major financial institutions have experienced a wave of DDoS attacks and site outages over the past couple of days, and Islamic extremist hacker group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters is claiming responsibility. The group, which launched similar attacks earlier this year, reiterated its demands: that a controversial YouTube video mocking the prophet Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet.""
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The group ... reiterated its demands: that a controversial YouTube video mocking the prophet Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet."
And these idiots think the banks are responsible and/or control the Internet and its content? - sigh
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The real question is, why do these hackers think the banks are responsible for this video or have any way to even take it down --from the internet, much less. Yeah, good luck with that --right, reputation.com? And why does everyone call this a 'YouTube video', as if Google had something to do with funding its production? Does YouTube have a DDoS problem from this group, too?
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How about we just eliminate all of the Prophet Mohammed's followers from the face of the earth?
Maybe the banks should tell them if they don't stop the they'll retaliate by bombing Mecca with pigs.
I've really had enough of these shit-heads.
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Because these terrorists are ignoramuses from countries where control of everything is centralized in a dictator or a theocracy, so naturally they can't comprehend of a liberal democracy where this might not be the case.
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So... making ignorant threats against an entire culture is okay when you do it?
My guess is that they feel if they can disrupt the services of banks it will in turn disrupt the functioning of many organisations that rely on those banks for financial services. This would have a negative effect on the economy as a whole (which is already in bad shape) and possibly get the attention of the government to do something to stop it.
Now, I don't feel this is actually going to work like that but that is my best guess at what they were attempting.
Or maybe they figured a lot of banks higher ups are friends with politicians whom they could go crying to to make it stop.
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Sorry bud, they know exactly what they want to destroy. Freedom. Because they don't have it. I still don't understand that tack, but they aren't 'ignoramuses'. How are they suddenly put down when they are 'fighting the power' when they DDoS a Western bank, yet vaulted to glory when they are savvy users of social media to coordinate the Arab Spring --or when they make a homemade tank that's controlled with a Playstation controller? Really, you frighten me with that blanket-statement regarding Arabs' mentality who reside in countries with a dictator or theocratic state. Most of them are still not free. The fact you're modded 4, Insightful makes me wary of the lot who gave you such a score, too. Especially when today's headlines on Slashdot read as such.
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Well, yes. The Islamists are actively trying to kill the Israelis, and more specifically the Jews. That justifies self-defense, does it not? Truth be told, the Palestinians in Israel get better treatment than most Arabs in other countries. They only complain because of the Jews.
so naturally they can't comprehend of a liberal democracy where this might not be the case.
Wrong. They understand what liberal democracy it. It is just they reject it utterly because they believe they are commanded by God to do so (according to their teachings). Similarly, parts of the political classes in the West are starting to utterly reject the notions of the political Islamists, since it seeks to eventually replace all other systems. Please don't confuse each 'side' with not comprehending each other's point of view. Both positions are pretty well understood. It is just that each side rejects the other. Note, however, that liberal democracy can tolerate aspects of the religious myths of Islam (eg. Muslim Israelis are tolerated, even in the IDF, for example). What liberal democracy rejects is the political system of Islam and the tyrrany of some parts of the religion [eg. poor treatment of women, the non-egalitarian concept of dhimmitude, the inability to question the clerics etc]).
Because Islam extremists represent all religious minded folks.
What's that nerds are usually so adamant about? Something about not painting everyone with one brush?
They do represent all fundamentalist religious minded folks.