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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Don't do what we do

[Badooleoo]

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

Sounds legit.

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

[Calydor]

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