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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.'"
Hack someone else to tell everyone that the governments are the bad h4x0rs.
Sounds legit.
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!!)
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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?
You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
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.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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.