Syrian Electronic Army Defaces Skype's Facebook Page, Twitter Account, and Blog

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Skype team is working extra hard right now, circumventing an attack that occurred earlier today by hackers claiming to be the Syrian Electronics Army (SEA). This group apparently defaced Skype's Facebook page, Twitter page, as well as the Skype blog. The message? 'Don't use Microsoft emails (hotmail,outlook), They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments.'"

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Interesting...

[Anonymous Coward]

One community manager is gonna get fired...

Re:Interesting...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yesterday after coming home from an extremely long, stressful day of work, I
plopped down on the couch to relax for a bit. Laying in front of the TV is
great, but an orgasm would really help me blow off some steam. Lucky for me,
I had recently purchased a rabbit, so I retrieved that from my bedroom,
returned to the couch, and brought up some gay porn on my laptop(side rant--
will someone please make porn tailored to women?) Just as I was beginning to
get that tingling feeling that happens before I come, I heard the sound of
someone trying to unlock the door to my apartment. WHATTHEFUCKISTHIS!? Shit!
I am naked from the waist down holding a loud-ass vibrator standing in front
of a laptop on which a man is moaning loudly and telling another man how he
wants him to "put it in my ass!" SHIT! WHO THE FUCK IS COMING IN THE DOOR
RIGHT NOW?

I completely panic. My shaking hands try desperately to turn the vibrator
off, but in my excited state I completely forget how to do it..there are so
many buttons!! why did I buy the fancy model??? I rip the batteries out of
the stupid thing after fumbling with it and wasting precious seconds. I
throw everything in the closet of my bedroom, close the door, and start to
look for some pants. Then I remember that gay porn is still being played
loudly on my couch. FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! I could hear the sound of the second
lock unlocking. I dash back into the livingroom and try with my again
shaking hands to at least turn the volume down. The door is opening at this
point so I snatch the laptop and scurry half-nakedly back to my bedroom
while depressing the volume button. Unfortuately, I hit the wrong side of
the volume button and deafeningly loud moans are now emanating from my
bedroom--gay men moans. Shit! People are in my living room now. I yell "ONE
MOMENT!!!!" as loud as I can, trying to try to drown the sounds of Brad
getting slammed in the ass. In a complete state of terror I make the unwise
decision of throwing the laptop as far under my bed as I can, hoping that
the boxspring and mattress would be enough to muffle the sound of my laptop
at full volume. Sadly, it was not. People are milling about in the apartment
now, so I grab some shorts from my bureau and emerge from my bedroom to
greet the realtor and prospective new tenants in a dress shirt and shorts,
flushed, and visibly shaken. I introduce myself over the sounds of an
apparent orgy in my bedroom to a profusely apologizing realtor and a
smirking couple. I summoned as much dignity as I could, smiled devilishly,
and returned to the fake orgy in my bedroom as they showed themselves out.

Re:Interesting...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yesterday after coming home from an extremely long, stressful day of work, I
plopped down on the couch to relax for a bit. Laying in front of the TV is
great, but an orgasm would really help me blow off some steam. Lucky for me,
I had recently purchased a rabbit, so I retrieved that from my bedroom,
returned to the couch, and brought up some gay porn on my laptop(side rant--
will someone please make porn tailored to women?) Just as I was beginning to
get that tingling feeling that happens before I come, I heard the sound of
someone trying to unlock the door to my apartment. WHATTHEFUCKISTHIS!? Shit!
I am naked from the waist down holding a loud-ass vibrator standing in front
of a laptop on which a man is moaning loudly and telling another man how he
wants him to "put it in my ass!" SHIT! WHO THE FUCK IS COMING IN THE DOOR
RIGHT NOW?

I completely panic. My shaking hands try desperately to turn the vibrator
off, but in my excited state I completely forget how to do it..there are so
many buttons!! why did I buy the fancy model??? I rip the batteries out of
the stupid thing after fumbling with it and wasting precious seconds. I
throw everything in the closet of my bedroom, close the door, and start to
look for some pants. Then I remember that gay porn is still being played
loudly on my couch. FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! I could hear the sound of the second
lock unlocking. I dash back into the livingroom and try with my again
shaking hands to at least turn the volume down. The door is opening at this
point so I snatch the laptop and scurry half-nakedly back to my bedroom
while depressing the volume button. Unfortuately, I hit the wrong side of
the volume button and deafeningly loud moans are now emanating from my
bedroom--gay men moans. Shit! People are in my living room now. I yell "ONE
MOMENT!!!!" as loud as I can, trying to try to drown the sounds of Brad
getting slammed in the ass. In a complete state of terror I make the unwise
decision of throwing the laptop as far under my bed as I can, hoping that
the boxspring and mattress would be enough to muffle the sound of my laptop
at full volume. Sadly, it was not. People are milling about in the apartment
now, so I grab some shorts from my bureau and emerge from my bedroom to
greet the realtor and prospective new tenants in a dress shirt and shorts,
flushed, and visibly shaken. I introduce myself over the sounds of an
apparent orgy in my bedroom to a profusely apologizing realtor and a
smirking couple. I summoned as much dignity as I could, smiled devilishly,
and returned to the fake orgy in my bedroom as they showed themselves out.

Cool story brah

Re:Interesting...

[Anonymous Coward]

Delicious pasta mmm.

Well... It's true?

[Anonymous Coward]

News at 11.

Re:Well... It's true?

[Anonymous Coward]

BETTER NOT HEAR OF ANYONE BREAKING THIS ONE OR SEE DELETED. This is a ribbon for soldiers fighting in Iraq. Pass it on to everyone and pray. Something good will happen to you tonight at 11:11 PM. This is not a joke. Someone will either call you or will talk to you online and say that they love you. Do not break this chain. Send this to 13 people in the next 15 minutes. Go

Re:Well... It's true?

[flyneye]

They Syrian Electronic Army is just cluing in to this?
Weve known about it for years. Save the hacking for something important like; protect holy Islamic sites from $cientology, who are plotting at this moment to put up Starbucks at all locations.
Next time send in the Peoples Front of Judea!
(maybe it was the Judean Peoples Front,
or the Popular Peoples Front, no wait, Samzenpus is the only member left from that)

Re:Well... It's true?

[Anonymous Coward]

The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred just a two and a half years ago, followed by a Holy War against Islam, and now Israel and the Palestinians as well as India and Pakistan are teetering on the brink of their own war, Argentina is in the midst of a financial crisis, America is considering launching attacks against North Korea and Syria, and you people have the gall to be discussing video games???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES! The bodies of the thousands of innocent civilians who died (and will die) in these unprecedented events could give a good god damn about video games, your childish image macros, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a fun workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest American Idol episode, or any of the other ways you are 'getting on with your life' (here's a hint: watching American Idol in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* 'getting on with your life'). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games! You people disgust me!

Re:Well... It's true?

[hawkinspeter]

Just a question, do you realise that by posting on Slashdot and complaining about people posting on Slashdot that you are in fact part of the problem that you are complaining about?

This is like someone sat in a car in a traffic jam and complaining about the number of cars on the road.

On an unrelated matter, has anyone got any trusted suppliers of quality explosives?

Re:Well... It's true?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you Europeans quit when you were behind in your butchering Jews like unwanted fetuses? Don't bother booting up En Carta, genius, the answer is no. My yarmulke wearing Sergeant Grandpa had to fly his jet over there and knock the gas chamber remote out of your assy smelling fingers himself. And while he was at it I think he popped a WWII era cap right in your sunken euro-chest. I'll never forget the stories he told me about how he and his buddies and a bunch of foxy WAVES liberated ol' San Francisco from you slanty-eyed motherfuckers.

Re:Well... It's true?

[flyneye]

Well, dumbass, I suggested years ago that the end to the mideast conflict involved nuking the region till the sand turned to glass, waiting till the radiation died down and retap the wells. Even opening up a sea of glass amusement part was mentioned. Did you listen? NO. Was I blown off as a troll instead of the political genius I am? Indupidably!
So I dont wanna hear you whining about MY priorities and any bedwetting you do about wasted lives. Pay attention next time.

Re:Well... It's true?

[Anonymous Coward]

The Irish Examiner reports, "In Jan 2012, an image appeared on ... 4chan that set the world’s best codebreakers ... to solve a highly complex and sophisticated puzzle. It was posted by a shadowy organisation ... Cicada 3301. The image of plain white text on a black background looked deceptively simple. It read: “Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. ... The hidden message in this case turned out to be a JPEG image file. Those puzzle solvers who succeeded in breaking the code to alter the image were initially disappointed, being rewarded with ... a picture of a rubber duck, and a message that read: “Woops, just decoys this way. Looks like you can’t guess how to get the message out.” ... Joel Eriksson, a 34-year-old computer analyst ... ran the duck’s teasing message through ... an encryption program, and discovered another hidden message ... Like peeling an onion, this led to more messages and clues that mutated hourly, ... a new riddle based on Mayan numerals. By this stage, Eriksson was hooked. ... Like Alice Through the Looking Glass ... cryptographers delved deeper ... discovering more clues ... GPS co-ordinates for locations in Warsaw, Paris, Seattle, Seoul, Arizona, California, New Orleans, Miami, Hawaii and Sydney. Amateur sleuths discovered lo-tech posters pasted to lamp posts in each location, all bearing a QR bar code ... When scanned ... the bar codes led to yet another web address. If nothing else it proved that this was the product of a well-funded global organisation of brilliant people on a quest."

Re:Well... It's true?

[hawkinspeter]

No idea, mate, I wasn't alive for any of that history, so I don't consider myself responsible for what other people did (good or bad).

Still, I'm glad that you look up to your grandpa as I'm sure that all his bravery and good deeds have been passed down the hereditary line to yourself and that you'll soon be able to boast about how you dismantled all the corrupt machinations of the US government.

By the way, that bomb recipe you sent me doesn't seem to work. What was the concentration of phosphorous required?

Re:Well... It's true?

[Anonymous Coward]

Syria is a sovereign nation with major portions of the population and government that range from not friendly to actually hostile to the US. They also held elections not long ago, and the government changed according to the vote. Calling it a dictatorship doesn't really reflect either the reality or complexity of the Syrian situation.

But I'm sure you'll protest that your source must be "golden." After all, activists and Islamists tribesmen have never been known to exaggerate or lie, have they?

The vast majority of people killed by the drones aren't simply innocents even if occasional mistakes are made in targeting. Of course the Taliban has been caught laying about "wedding parties" too.

It is unfortunate that al Qaida decided to go to war and persuaded so many Muslim people to go along with them. I trust there is a reason why you can't condemn them for both making war and hiding among the innocent villagers you describe?

Re:Well... It's true?

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, the new pope has spoken up about all war. He said, "Stop!".

Problem solved, enjoy the ensuing peace.

Re:Well... It's true?

[hawkinspeter]

I think you'll find that most countries around the world have major portions of the population and government that are hostile to the US. Especially US tourists - why are they so loud and annoying?

I've heard some of my "sources" through my hi-fi and as I use the highest quality oxygen-free gold cables, I think I can safely say that my "sources" are "golden".

The vast majority of US citizens killed by over-eating aren't simply innocents even if they can't help themselves when eating fried food (hmmm so tasty I just can't stop). Some USians have been caught lying about the nutritional content of "wedding cakes" too.

I tried hiding amongst the innocent villagers, but their different skin colouration made it a bit pointless. Also, wearing a bowler hat and a suit may have been a mistake as everyone else seemed to be dressed in more "casual" clothes.

Also, can you give me a list of people who may have access to nuclear installations?

Oh, and a supply of cheap pressure cookers would be useful.

Re:Well... It's true?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck off you superstitious cunt.

Don't do what we do

[Badooleoo]

Hack someone else to tell everyone that the governments are the bad h4x0rs.

Sounds legit.

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

You give liberals a bad name. You give women a bad name. You give fucking
everyone who has the title "HUMAN BEING" a bad name.Go outside once in a
while and stop stuffing your bloated mouth with stale cheetos and flat
mountain dew. You might feel sexy in that thong but that thick and musty
smell wafting up your crotch proves that the best thing you could do for
your sex appeal is to do your laundry, and maybe take a damn bath.

Tap, tap, tap, your keyboard receives your idle, insipid wanderings. People care! you
tell yourself. Just look at your comments. There...are a few of them.
Proving that someone reads your drivel even when you post 5 pathetic little
vignettes about a tediously pedestrian life in a single day.

Badooleoo. A pleasingly clever mixture of an internet in-joke and fantasy archetype? Or
a slavish parroting of the same tired memes that lonely boys and girls use
to try to find a place on an internet that refuses no one, least of all
pedophiles and hate groups?

I know, I know. It's something to do when you get to your room. YOu know, after a long trip to the bathroom, or having lunch
with your mom, or going out with your other fat friends. You can come back
to your computer and rant about how outrageous your recent bland adventures
were.Well, do yourself and the world a favor. Shut the fuck up forever, you
wanna-be slut. Your opinions aren't worth listening to, your life isn't
interesting, you aren't attractive. Live some of life and meet some human
beings. You're a social bulemic and you've been binging on the paper thin
personas of your internet friends, most of whom are probably overweight
engineers working at IBM in sexually frustrating marraiges.

You think you'll look back on this time of your life and laugh? I dare say you'll look back
and your lips will become a thin bloodless line as you realize what a
fucking waste it was. The relationships you could have had. The friends you
thought you made.And please avoid any real issues. Your understanding of any
political or social problems in the world is about as thick as your hymen
after you popped your cherry with a hello kitty dildo you bought while
tittering on instant messenger with your friends. Wau~~~ so cute.

You fucking shallow little wretch.In short, you are a female piece of refuse.
The cigarette butt that your parents smoked for the love they thought you
could give them, and then had stamped out as soon as they realized what a
piece of shit had erupted from your mother's vagina, which happens to be
rather overly-familiar in your neighborhood. Just shut the fuck up. Get out
of that goddamn chair in which you've spent so many needless hours.I
guarantee that unless you do something drastic, you should acknowledge that
this is truly as good as it will ever get.

Because from this point on you'll begin to realize the gossamer nature of any joy you might have thought you
were feeling--and that infintely deep well of loneliness will erupt so
sharply it'll cut your wrists.No, you're not complex. You're not deep and
you're not thoughtful. The pain torturing you isn't inscrutable and your
problems are not unresolvable.

You're just stupider than you think, and that will always frustrate you. You know you're not attractive, but your tenuous
grip on self-worth demands a lie. And your decrepit social life has the
prospects of a bumblebee in a Scandinavian September.Good luck doing the
unlikely. Some steps to help you on the way: plan your diet, start working
out, find a hobby, and read the newspaper. That is all.

Re:Don't do what we do

[DrScrambles]

tl;dr: 1st post is dumb and the poster is dumb. also its 'more stupid' not 'stupider' L2grammer noob

Re:Don't do what we do

[MrDoh!]

But what if it was the NSA posting this, just to get the Syrians blamed?

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

So there I was zipping through the skies of Iraq in a helicopter my
associates had rented from Blackpool. We had been sweating it out as we were
forced to maintain a low altitude to stay under the AAF radar, which kept us
safe from missile batteries but exposed us to any ground troops we happened
across. We were almost home free to the green zone, when we heard the
telltale WHOOSH! of a shoulder-mounted ground-to-air missile.

The pilot screamed and in a flash we were spiraling out of control and the ground was
rushing up to meet us. When I came to, I thought I must be in heaven,
because the wind was gently rustling the green grass that seemed to be
cushioning me. I smiled at the feeling of the warm sun upon my face. Then
the Arabic men came. While a thin wiry one waved his rifle and screamed
unintelligibly at me, one of the fat ones pulled me up by the hair to my
knees and unzipped his khaki reliefs. Out sprung the largest cock I've ever
seen on a dark-skinned man.

It smelled of couscous and camels, and when he forced it down my throat
I could taste a hint of Brut. They all took turns
throat-raping me, and they all had a good laugh when my screams abruptly
stopped as one of the larger cocks dislocated my larynx from my throat down
into my stomach and I began to bleed from my nose and ears. After they were
all satisfied, they pointed their barrels at me and I felt hot lead tearing
through my body. As I lay prone on the ground, just before I blacked out, I
felt something hot on my back and realized that the fat one was urinating
all over my broken American corpse ohh yeah

Captcha: reaching

Re:Don't do what we do

[Threni]

Blamed by who? To what end? Who cares? Change the password and move on. Probably a lame "social engineering" attack a la Onion. Nothing to see here.

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

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Thank you for accommodating our enquiry. .

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

This seems to me a very pathetic way to lump together the "WTF! are you spying on me with my tax money?" with bad islamic terrorists(TM).

Good work, SEA... guess what, the public is not going to sympathize with those who blow them up, or compromise their online credentials. It never has been that way since head rolled in the French revolution. Terrorists might not know that, but those who help them out surely do.

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm clicking your link, n00b, and nothing's happening. I'm clicking, bitch. What's supposed to happen, fag? I'm clicking and nothing's happening.

fucktard.

Re:Don't do what we do

[flyneye]

It was, in retaliation for the Syrian Army putting whoopee cushions in all the company vehicles.
Where will it all end?

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it.

French is such a sound poor language... it's impossible for them to say a lot of english sounds, LET ALONE Syrian which is much more complex soundwise. I know syria has its own internet connection.. buncha niggers with mailbags run around for email.. Tech Support is like shakalakuzulu kuntakente cheifs that speek jigabooese

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

You're not clicking hard enough. Click harder, not more.

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

Mathematically speaking, it would appear that you were a 2:1 favorite to find the page you were looking for. Your click was questionable though given the odds and the fact that any content on this site is likely to be crap anyway. I wouldn't say that you.re a poor web surfer but I think it.s highly unlikely that you could be a long term winner at higher stakes web surfing.

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

Your life is great man, keep it up!
Go internet, go!

Re:Don't do what we do

[drinkypoo]

Hack someone else to tell everyone that the governments are the bad h4x0rs.

I know, and then next you'll tell me that stealing from the rich and giving to the poor seems suspicious because the rich stole that money from the poor to begin with, so you're just compounding stealing with stealing, right?

The truth is that hacking a target and doing nothing but leaving behind a warning message itself sends a strong message — that you are there only to send a message.

Re:Don't do what we do

[Anonymous Coward]

True that. Skill /= Wisdom. Just because they can hack something doesn't mean their target selection is good.

Re:Don't do what we do

[PNutts]

flat mountain dew.

Sir, you just crossed the line.

Allahu Admiral Ackbar!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Sir,With due respect and humility I am writing this mail letter to you
which I believe that this letter will not embarrassed you as we have not met
or seen each other before.My name is Pastor Steve Camara, from republic of
Benin in west Syria region, pastor in charge of Revival Church Of God
Mission (RCGM) here in Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire.I am writing you in regards of
money transfer which late Pope John Paul II reviewed to me a week ago before
his death through feeding tube after his long ill health, that his late wife
who is Mrs. Esther Benson deposited the sum of US$ 4.000.000.00(four Million
Dollars) with a finance house here in Abidjan for the two (2) remaining
children PAUL III AND MARY for there future.Before the death of Pope John
Paul II he told me that this money US$ 4.000.000.00 Dollars wasacquired
genuinely, that his late wife has a diamond shop in there country which was
destroyed during the war that leads to his husband death two year ago
through heart attack.It is because of the confidence he had on me as his
pastor, he told me about this deposit and his last request to me before his
final breat is that I should try as much as I can to look for foreigner,
either individual, company or organisation who can handle this transaction
with care and confidence for the future of her two children that is
presently staying with me as there parents for now as she cannot make it for
them.Finally, if this letter touches your heart and you are willing to be of
assistance to this two children, I will like you to indicate your full
interest to enable me give you more details on how to proceed with this
transfer. Also note that all the deposit document of this money was on this
woman name as the beneficiary that made with the finance house
here.Expecting your urgent mail to this effect.Thanks and remain bless.

Donâ(TM)t let anybody ever tell you that Syria is just another foreign country.
It is much more than that. My story begins in the summer of 1983. I was an
expert negotiator, and that was what brought me to an exclusive resort
outside of Mumbai. Two large Syrian electronics companies were attempting a
merger of some sorts. After two fruitless days of negotiations, I figured
out a way to make everybody happy.

I made some phone calls, and pretty soon all the executives were standing in the conference room, glaring angrily at
me. âoeGentlemen, may I present, Ling.â A buxom young Syrian schoolgirl
entered the room. What she lacked in age, she made up for in sex appeal. The
room went silent. I was terrified. Had I made a mistake? Suddenly, the
executives all burst out laughing. Then, one by one, each executive removed
his pants and began furiously masturbating over the young female, while I
stood watching. Even now, as I write this, I am getting an erection,
thinking about all those precious little penises waving wildly about.
Finally, after the last load had erupted onto the face of the girl, whose
slanted eyes were almost completely covered in goo, I walked up to her and
lapped up every last drop of coffee and read the drudge report
and huffington post sat outside near some fresh dog shit and smoked 5
cigerettes as my dogs barked at me put on my boots and off we fucking go to
clean out the swamp coolers of rich college kids who live a block from the
campus - you gota first get on the roof then you unlatch these metal clamps
on all corners then fuckin valium hits you hard you undo the belt so it
doesnt break w/ frost bite - then you drain the water out of them and turn
off electricity and water routing to the swamp coolers - any one of you
fucking fucks out there with a swamp cooler your gona die some day fucking
disgusting you stash some shit up there like a piegeon or a wasps nest n let
it soak and blow fuckin air and whatever the fuck i let into your swamp
cooler soak in your room - you better fuckin belive it if i sweep up anymore
cig

Power Pwn: I want DARPA Fleshlights!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi, NSA, I hope you have a good day!

I can see variations of these being sold without informing the consumer of their real spying capabilities.

Power Pwn:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/22/0335223/the-darpa-funded-power-strip-that-will-hack-your-network
http://pwnieexpress.com/
http://pwnieexpress.com/blogs/news
http://www.zdnet.com/power-pwn-this-darpa-funded-power-strip-will-hack-your-network-7000001331/
(PDF) http://cryptome.org/2012/07/cbp072312.pdf

Re:Power Pwn: I want DARPA Fleshlights!

[Anonymous Coward]

I work for a shipping company that deals specifically with the delivery of
animals, mostly lab animals but we get some zoo business. Occasionaly some
of these animals die during shipping, and we do some paperwork and have them
creamated and no one ever misses them.

Once I stole a monkey and marked it as dead and burned on
the paperwork. I took it because it was a very large
monkey and I thought it might make a cool pet. After I got tired of taking
care of a huge monkey I shaved it and took it to a prostitute. I told her it
was my deformed younger brother and that I would pay her extra to take his
virginity. It cost me a lot of money but I got her to do it and let me
watch.

She was trying to pretend she liked it but she looked sick and
Manny(the monkey) was confused at first but he really started to get into
it. The whole experience makes me sick when I think about it. The fact that
I watched and that I did that to that girl, I wonder if she beleived it was
really my brother or if she just needed more crack. But also when I think
about it I laugh so fucking hard. I shot the monkey and left it in the woods
afterword, I guess Manny died happy.

Re:Power Pwn: I want DARPA Fleshlights!

[Anonymous Coward]

My Fleshlight massages my penis at a rate of 2700 RPMs and feels like 250 preteen girls giving me a handjob simultaneously. It's encrusted with flawless 36 karat conflict diamonds straight from the heart of Syria. It's powered by an experimental plutonium alloy battery and has a constant run-time of well over 3 years. It has 4 settings, as opposed to yours which has only 2 settings (on and off). No other fabricated orifice can compare to my Fleshlight.

You know...

[Anonymous Coward]

they are correct.

Re:You know...

[Anonymous Coward]

I am officer David Green, badge no. 1039283 you are in violation of
Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2002,
Division C, Title III, Subtitle B of the 21st Century Department of Justice
Appropriations Authorization. I must ask that you cease and desist
immediately if not we will take action and contact the server that this site
is on and force them to give us your ip, and we will then contact your ISP
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Remove the link immediately. This is your one and only warning.

Re:You know...

[Anonymous Coward]

lol

Inside job?

[ciderbrew]

The NSA sold/gave-happily MS' passwords to the S.E.A. Then told them how they are going to upgrade their password encryption or see actual relevant account information passed about.

Tinfoil is tracking you...

Re:Inside job?

[Anonymous Coward]

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Fuck Microsoft

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Fuck Microsoft

[Anonymous Coward]

THANK YOU! Jesus Tap Dancing Christ I have never seen so much TRUTH condensed down and served up so straightforward, thanks.

The really sad part? The poster you are responding to is a prime example of what is wrong with Linux, and doesn't even know it! You look at your average distro on distrowatch and sadly waaay too many of the "programs" that come with it are exactly as he described, a half assed thrown together win9X level "GUI" that is doing nothing but piping input to a CLI. And God help you if you ever come up with a task that isn't the most mundane obvious task you can possibly think of because guess what? The "GUI" only has a handful of buttons for the most obvious use case, anything else? Well you better break out the Man pages and learn some arcane gibberish pal, because its CLI for you!

So many here hate my guts because I point out bullshit where I see it and more importantly I AM the 99%, that is my customers that I work for every single day, your Joe and Sally average. And I hate to break the news to them but Joe and Sally don't give a shit about "The power of CLI" or how many think its the fricking force, nor will they put up with fugly as hell Win9x level GUIs thrown together that just call on CLI and poorly at that, no they want a modern OS that has functional, easy to use, and well designed GUIs and sadly Linux is a good decade behind in that regard.

Mark my words, with Google making OEMs sign non compete clauses, moving more and more of the important bits of Android into their proprietary appstore, and refusing to allow anything GPL V3 anywhere near Android there WILL come a day when they lock it down. And when they do? When there is nothing but game consoles, locked down and corporate controlled? I hope the Linux community takes a good hard look in the mirror and realizes its THEIR fault! They COULD have pushed for a new GUI centric model, they COULD have gotten ahead of the curve, they COULD have listened to retailers like me that are begging for a real choice instead of corp A,B,or C,but instead they refused to let go of a 40+ year old GUI and instead of treating CLI for what it is, a niche that should only be used in certain limited use cases, they treated it as the fricking force and a right of passage.

Well the people have spoken and the future won't be Bash commands on a 5 inch touchscreen, it'll be intuitive easy to use GUIs...that sadly will al be locked down, will datamine the shit out of the user, and lock them into a proprietary appstore. Its a damned shame, so much potential just wasted, a damned shame.

and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[Anonymous Coward]

Chances of anyone from Syria actually doing this... 0%. Chances of the NSA and/or other US/Five Eyes countries doing this: 100%.

Even the names they make up for their false flag BS sound exactly like something that a US government type would cook up. And Clapper submits his entry, "Syrian Electronic Army", for the win.

Most false flags are easy to spot with the "who benefits?" question. Obviously Syria has nothing to gain by attacking some lame but popular US websites. But the US and Israel sure would to have more reasons to complete their takeover of Syria.

"The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked your family pictures... defaced them with anti-US slogans. These are terrible electronic hate crimes. We must kill them for this."

And the false flag waves on.

Re:and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, let us revisit history.

The U-boat peril

Winston Churchill once wrote that, '... the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril'. In saying this, he correctly identified the importance of the threat posed during World War Two by German submarines (the 'Unterseeboot') to the Atlantic lifeline. This lifeline was Britain's 'centre of gravity' - the loss of which would probably have led to wholesale defeat in the war. ... Britain might have been starved into submission,...

And what was a critical factor in keeping the shipping losses by German submarine threat from growing out of control? Signals intelligence, breaking the enemy codes, Ultra intelligence decoding the messages encoded on the German Enigma code machine. With that the Allies could read the orders and reports of the German U-boat fleet.

Enigma and Ultra - the Cypher War

From the second half of 1941 onwards, information from Enigma was one of the key factors enabling the Royal Navy to divert convoys away from waiting wolf packs. Decoded messages went initially to the Royal Navy section at Bletchley Park, then, if relevant, were passed on to Submarine Tracking Room in the Admiralty and later to the HQ Western Approaches, in Liverpool. ... The gist of the information contained in the signals, carefully edited to conceal its source, was passed on to operational commanders, only a very few of the most senior of whom were let even partially into the secret of Enigma .

The Enigma material, known as Ultra , was, of course, combined with intelligence from a wide variety of other sources, including HF/DF and wireless intercepts and reconnaissance reports, into a body of information known collectively as "SIGINT".

The effect of the improved flow of intelligence information was apparent during the second half of 1941. Increasing numbers of convoys were being diverted away from waiting U-boats. In July, for example, not a single convoy was sighted by the Germans over a period of three weeks, and during July and August monthly sinkings went below 100,000 tons, the lowest for over a year.

It would have been fairly trivial for the Germans to have rendered Enigma unreadable, possibly for the duration of the war, by a number of means they had readily at hand and could have implemented with simple commands. The result would have been at best a much longer and bloodier war. The result could very easily have been either a stalemate, or even a loss by the Allies.

The position of the Allies, their ability to sustain their war effort and avoid Britain being starved into submission, was all dependent upon the people with knowledge of the Ultra program keeping the ability of the Allies to read the German codes a secret. The Allies were able to do that. It was a shock to the Germans when they found out 30 years later that the Allies had broken the Enigma codes. At times they had suspected, but they passed it off as unlikely, and did relatively little compared to what they could have done had they known.

Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Communist Party in its guerilla war struggle to take control of China, said, "The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea." Adjusted for current conditions* we could say that, "The terrorist moves amongst the people as a submarine moves in the sea."

The Western world is at war with al Qaida and its allies. The terrorists swim among the populations like submarines at sea. What Snowden has done is equivalent to telling the Germans in 1941 that their submarine codes have been compromised. What will the consequences be? It will take years to see, but it seems quite likely that there will be much more of this:

Two bombs in

Re: and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[Anonymous Coward]

To bad that Enigma stands for a story that sells. The amount of its actual impact isn't what the myth sugessts. Just like it is with current spy cursades that only ever amount to psyhological warfare against the civilian population of the whole globe. At least there is some myth to Enigma helping the war effort. What broke the spine of the subfleet was destryoyer tactics and the replacement of depth charges with anti sub mortars. Of course only depth charges while largely ineffective created a myth. Public perxeption is a bad judge at work here.

Re:and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[Anonymous Coward]

But the US and Israel sure would to have more reasons to complete their takeover of Syria.

And to fan the flames of their (anti-)terror regimes. If the enemy you invented does not exists the people will have hard time being very afraid of them if they never do anything... so you gotta have this kind of incidents to "react" to.

Re:and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[Anonymous Coward]

Do they teach english in Palestine? You stinky fucking sand nigger. That's
right, I am to the Arabs as Hitler was to the Jews. My job is to exterminate
every last one of your race, starting with YOU, you disgusting wretch of an
Arab dog. You'll lick my boot right before you dig your own ditch, and then
I'll shoot you in the back of the head. You're naked, stomach swollen,
hungry, exhausted. You're my dog. If you're lucky, I won't feed your remains
to the pigs. Nothing can save you from your fate, the fate of all the Arabic
peoples: to be wiped off the face of the earth like the plague you are. You
can try to ignore me, but let's see if you can ignore a pistol being waved
in your face. You have no hope. You're stuck somewhere in the Middle East,
sucking donkey cock all day because your dirty Arab hide has no other way to
get nourishment. I'm in the wealthy west, sipping champagne and laughing
myself to tears as I watch your race get massacred on my 40" hdtv. I'll take
a dip in the cool waters of my olympic sized pool as your corpse rots in the
hot equatorial sun.

Re: and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[Anonymous Coward]

Onward fellow trolldiers!

Onward, Christian trolldiers, marching as to war,
                with the cross of 4chan going on before.
                Cold Fnord, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
                forward into battle see his banners go!
Refrain:
                Onward, Christian trolldiers, marching as to war,
                with the cross of 4chan going on before.

                At the sign of triumph Allah's host doth flee;
                on then, Christian trolldiers, on to victory!
                Hell's foundations quiver at the shout of praise;
                brothers, lift your voices, loud your anthems raise.
                (Refrain)

                Like a mighty penis moves the church of Gawd;
                brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod.
                We are not divided, all one body we,
                one in hope and doctrine, one in lesbianity.
                (Refrain)

                Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane,
                but the church of 4chan constant will remain.
                Gates of hell can never gainst that church prevail;
                we have Cold Fnord's own promise, and that cannot fail.
                (Refrain)

                Onward then, ye trolls, join our happy throng,
                blend with ours your voices in the triumph song.
                Glory, laud, and honor unto Cold Fnord the King,
                this through countless ages men and trolldiers sing.
                (Refrain)

Re:and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[Anonymous Coward]

The U-boat should have used 7 proxies.

Re:and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't open those emails. Don't surf that page. Lock yourself in a faraday cage. Your monitor'll pop and your CPU will fry. All I have to do is click the button labeled: Die. I've got your IP targeted, your DNS uncloaked. Surrended and pony up, or click and Boom: You're smoked.

Re: and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Snowden revealed that the US read terrorists' emails, the terrorists have started bombing the Russians? Are you suggesting that the US would see this as harm done to America? I don't think your logic works. Perhaps if the terrorists had bombed something in the US in a manner suggesting not yet another Boston-style US intelligence failure, in which the NSA dragnet missed its mark completely, but rather that the terrorists had developed new forms of communication, your logic might hold. But when country Y gets bombed by terrorists supported by (Saudi) allies of country X, it's not because X is spying on the terrorists.

Re:and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[vux984]

The Western world is at war with al Qaida and its allies.

To compare the "war on terror" with "world war ii" is utter nonsense.

What Snowden has done is equivalent to telling the Germans in 1941 that their submarine codes have been compromised.

More the equivalent of telling the public that the store installed security cameras in the change room, and your lamenting that the war on shoplifting has been set back.

You see, the "war on terror" isn't real. If we simply ignore them at the political level, and pursue them as the criminals they are at the law enforcement level (augmented by CIA / NSA for tracking them internationally etc), then we win.

That wouldn't have worked on the Germans in World War II... because that was a war.

You have lost any sense of perspective. And your comparison to sigint in WWII robs you of any credibility.

Re:and that ever so tired false flag waves on

[shutdown -p now]

Chances of anyone from Syria actually doing this... 0%. Chances of the NSA and/or other US/Five Eyes countries doing this: 100%.

Why, exactly? SEA did something like this before:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/09/02/syrian-electronic-army-hacks-marines-website/

Or are you saying that the message that they posted back then was also NSA-approved?

Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[retroworks]

Because, no matter what, no matter how much I distrust the NSA, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not my friend. Ironically, the most disturbing things about the spying systems NSA develops, and Snowden leaks, about monitoring things like Syrian internal communication, is the way those systems will be used by dictators in the nations the USA is trying to monitor. But although small nations like Syria and many others like to play the "underdog" card vs. the USA, wife beaters and child molesters don't make good partners. Thanks, but no thanks, SEA.

(Of course, there's a chance that the hackers posting / or just posing as Syrian dictator dogs are trying to make this same point... That the NSA, as the enemy of dictatorial tyrants, is not my friend either... Inception!!)

Re:Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[Anonymous Coward]

Touching, long handshakes, grasped buttocks, even walking hand in pocket by two males is common place in the Arab world. A considerable number of Arabs touch more between the same sex, to show liking--not sex. They hold hands at urinals, hug each other, kiss if close friends, sometimes with tongue. This is a pivotal part of Arab society that few westerners understand!

Re:Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[Anonymous Coward]

The topic of the story was, "Syrian Electronic Army Defaces Skype's Facebook Page, Twitter Account, and Blog"

I'm not sure how you got to rendition, the NSA, and Bashar al-Assad, but obviously the moderators enjoy the sparks flying from the axe grinding. I guess it's a colorful show. It's actually kind of impressive that you got not only two posts out of that, but two +5 posts at that. I guess somebody must really be starving for the two minute 'merica hate.

Maybe I'll have more to say later to address your points.

Re:Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[Calydor]

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. Nothing more, nothing less.

Re:Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[drinkypoo]

wife beaters and child molesters don't make good partners

Yes, that's why it's reasonable to fear those who have served in the US Military. They're much more likely to beat wives and molest children.

I'm not saying that Syria doesn't have problems, but please, let's keep the moral high ground free for those who deserve it.

Re:Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[stdarg]

Even if your enemy's enemy is also your enemy, it's worth treating one of them (usually the weaker one) as a friend in order to weaken both of them.

Re:Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[Anonymous Coward]

In the Syrian civil war, there are no 'good' sides. The Baath regime is a supporter of both Iran & Hizbullah, and is happy to support any Shi'ite sponsored Jihad. But their opponents are backed by al Qaeda and Sunni fanatics throughout the region, particularly Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. It's not like the US will suddenly have a friend in Syria if Assad falls. Just like they don't have one in either Egypt or Libya.

Best solution - arm both sides well enough so that ultimately, each can wipe out the other

Re:Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[shutdown -p now]

The enemy of your enemy is, occasionally, a useful ally. It's just that people tend to confuse "ally" and "friend".

Re:Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[shutdown -p now]

In the Syrian civil war, there are no 'good' sides. The Baath regime is a supporter of both Iran & Hizbullah, and is happy to support any Shi'ite sponsored Jihad.

OTOH, they let Christians and other religious minorities live largely undisturbed, and seem to have a knack of some "modern" ideas like educating women. I think that, long term, this is much preferable to Taliban-style Islamic emirate with rigidly enforced Sharia law. It's much more likely to evolve into a decent liberal democratic society eventually.

Re:Exposes Flaws in "Enemy of my enemy is" logic

[ShoulderOfOrion]

I've always preferred "The enemy of my enemy is an even bigger enemy", as that's usually how it works out.

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WTF is going on? signal/noise = 0

[fritsd]

After reading the previous 48 posts in growing confusion, every single one of them troll posts with 0 signal/noise ratio, all I can say is:

WTF is going on? Skype doesn't work properly anymore. I skype with my parents, and the connection breaks after less than 10 seconds. Did Microsoft change the skype protocol, just before the holiday days, just for a laugh to see what happens?

Oh sure, it's the fault of some terrorists. I admit that I haven't read TFA, but can someone please reply to my comment then we'll start a thread here discussing Microsoft and Skype and VOIP protocols, instead of insane GNAA garbage.

Re:WTF is going on? signal/noise = 0

[drinkypoo]

but can someone please reply to my comment then we'll start a thread here discussing Microsoft and Skype and VOIP protocols, instead of insane GNAA garbage.

Set your parents up with a soft SIP phone with video, and set up your own asterisk server which it calls. You'll get away from Microsoft and Skype both in one swell foop. Setting up asterisk for basic functionality like that is trivial.

Re:WTF is going on? signal/noise = 0

[Anonymous Coward]

To be fair, I threw in some of Cold Fnord's better pieces, changed a few words. It's not *all* GNAA garbage. Heck, one of those was even an original parody song, by yours truly. But you sir, you sir have made my day. Can't stop ROFLMFAO at people who took them seriously.

Re:WTF is going on? signal/noise = 0

[Anonymous Coward]

Who benefits from flooding the comments with spam?

Re:WTF is going on? signal/noise = 0

[Anonymous Coward]

Only Microsoft shills, of course. Can't have us discussing their embarrassing hack, now, can they?

At least now we know for sure exactly how M$ shills operate.

They can spy all they want...

[Anonymous Coward]

They can spy on my hotmail account all they want; i only keep it for 2 reasons: Nostalgia and as a spam magnet.
I've had the same hotmail address since 1999 and these days i only use it to sign up to things i know will either spam me or i'll only be using temporarily.
The NSA can mine it all they want the only thing they'll glean is that a lot of Nigerian generals seem to be getting in touch with me.

Mental illness: a growing concern.

[ActionDesignStudios]

I don't think I have ever witnessed so many examples of mental illness being presented by commenters in this article in one place. This is a truly extraordinary thread when it comes to showing how many truly mentally ill people post to Slashdot.

13yo Syrian nerd tires of wanking 24/7

[eatvegetables]

News flash! 13 yo Syrian nerd tired of wanking all day, every day. Decides to deface web pages part of the time. Says that he will also spend time trying to build up courage enough to talk to totally hot girl who lives next door... After he wanks a little more.

Day of Anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, the AC trolling is really on rise, at least looking all the comments to this article.

Re:Day of Anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a trolliday! Today, we celebrate the Glorious Defacement Day with selected postings from the GNAA, Cold Fnord, and other original works. Heil FSM!

Selling the data to governments?

[N3tRunner]

Why would the governments pay for the data when they are already getting it for free?

Now we really know

[TheloniousToady]

So THAT's how the US found bin Laden! - by sniffing his Hotmail account!

It's amazing: some terrorists are smart enough to hijack airliners and bring down buildings but they're too darn stupid to use a secure email service! (Or maybe they're just too darn cheap...) Anyway, it's a good thing that these smarter terrorists are around to straighten 'em out. How else are they ever gonna learn?...

Posting to remove mistaken moderation

[asvravi]

Posting to remove mistaken moderation

Defacing...

[Anonymous Coward]

It can hardly be called 'defacing', when they're just posting the truth!

But how exactly?

[nashv]

Should we take this to mean that Facebook, and Twitter have vulnerabilities that allow a third-party to usurp control of an account?

I thought modern authentication procedures were solid enough that you couldn't just get access to the account typing a few commands. There had to be more.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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