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New York Times and Twitter Attacked By Syrian Electronic Army
cold fjord writes with news that the NY Times website was disrupted by hackers Tuesday afternoon. "In an interview, Mr. Frons said the attack was carried out by a group known as 'the Syrian Electronic Army, or someone trying very hard to be them.' The group attacked the company’s domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. The Web site first went down after 3 p.m.; once service was restored, the hackers quickly disrupted the site again." The Times wasn't the only site to be attacked: "Earlier today, a Twitter account allegedly belonging to the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Syrian-regime hacker collective, claimed to have taken over The New York Times website, Huffington Post UK's website and Twitter.com, by hacking into each of the site's registry accounts." The group was definitely able to change contact info for Twitter's domain. The Wall Street Journal notes that this is the same group that targeted media organizations a few months back. "When the SEA hacked the Twitter account of the Associated Press earlier this year, it posted a false headline to the account that said the White House had been attacked. The hoax caused U.S. stock markets to briefly lose $200 billion in value."
So, first a story about the army being ready to raid the country, and just now a cyber-attack originating from syria happens... How do we know it's not US electronic warfare machine fabricating a bening attack to foster popular support for the coming war? After all, false flags before wars are the norm and not the exception.
So your thinking is that it won't be the use of chemical weapons on a civilian population killing over a thousand people in violation of international treaties, and in the face of repeated warnings from the international community that have been openly stated that will rile people up? It will be some nuisance grade hacking of twitter and a newspaper? And, it has to be a "false flag" to boot? You need to get out more, that is utter nonsense.
As explanations on Slashdot I find that "false flags" are greatly overused. It often seems to be the preferred "go to" explanation for everything. The problem is, you have a hard time with meaningful discussions if everything is a "false flag."
If you really want to go down the "false flag" route, how do we know you aren't part of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the US?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
I believe you are referring to this. It was fabricated.
Putting your money on a "false flag" for something this cheesy is, quite frankly, a stupid bet.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell