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Leaked Docs Reveal List of 30 Countries Hacked On Orders of FBI Informant Sabu
blottsie writes A Federal Bureau of Investigation informant targeted more than two dozen countries in a series of high-profile cyberattacks in 2012. The names of many of those countries have remained secret, under seal by a court order—until now. A cache of leaked IRC chat logs and other documents obtained by the Daily Dot reveals the 30 countries—including U.S. partners, such as the United Kingdom and Australia—tied to cyberattacks carried out under the direction of Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as Sabu, who served as an FBI informant at the time of the attacks.
Repeat after me, hacking someone in another country is different than hacking that country.
They can spin this any way they want, but the only explanation that makes sense is that they were hoping that this operation would at some point lead them to Assange (who had prior contacts with Sabu). Shame on them.
lucm, indeed.
Sabutage? Was the title of this Slashdot post hacked by the FBI as well? :-/
Considering that Israel spies on the United States more than any other ally, I'm surprised they are not on the list.
TFS deliberately misinterprets this as attacking the countries governments. The FBI was not directing those targets. There's a difference between an agent and an informant.
Follow the press and PR. The US was finding and stopping computer issues around the world in public.
The US was finding out about computer networks around the world.
Information was flowing back to the US using consumer grade networks and tools found in the wild using the pubic as cover.
Recall Operation CHAOS (or Operation MHCHAOS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just like now domestic groups where needed with liaison services.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
You mean to tell me that the US doesn't even trust the other Five Eyes nations' spy agencies to be able to do this?*
*Yes, I know, to get round legal restrictions, it was very normal for the US to spy on the citizens of the other four and to exchange that data for information collected on US citizens by other members of Five Eyes. However, we now know all the agencies DO spy on their own citizens, routinely. So the US can ask GCHQ to wiretap British citizens in Britain, it doesn't need to spy on Britain itself. This behaviour suggests wheels within wheels.
You mean to tell me that the US isn't all caught up in the US-UK "Special Relationship" stuff?**
**Most Americans were unaware there even was one and get horribly confused when the British talk about it.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
RE 'US doesn't even trust the other Five Eyes nations' spy agencies to be able to do this?*"
Some data is kept private for 5 Eye political leaders and policy formation over decades or longer.
Some information needs to be laundered in public in the short term to ensure good public relations spin, good news for sock puppets on social media or new public funding for gov/mil.
The press finds a new story.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
In the first place, "FBI informant" != "the FBI". It's not really all that surprising that a law-enforcement agency has "informants" who, by their very nature, are likely to be involved in activities that the agency itself would not condone. In other news, "police informants" regularly deal in contraband and stolen goods, and "CIA informants" actually work for foreign governments. Hold the front page!
In the second place, WTF is "targetting a country"? Unless he came up with a way to overload the physical cables connecting those countries' internets to their neighbours, the worst he could be accused of is maybe DOSsing a few government websites. Which might irritate a few people for a few hours, but it's hardly an act of war.
Well at least my mom doesn't love it and beg for more
All the MSM are in warp-drive about a CDC contract employee who is a three-time felon, and who was in a certain elevator with Obama as Obama visited the CDC in Atlanta.
Fact 1: Yes the contract employee is a 3-time felon
Fact 2: Nothing happened (when he was in the elevator with Obama)!
So after the resignation of the SS Chief, DHS anoints a former employee to be Obama's, Great White Savior!
Obama, and Michelle (formerly Michael) his "wife", will likely see this as insult on injury.
Tough Tittie Big O.
Grovel you worthless peasants. The King does what you are not allowed to do! We call that freedom. Seems like government for and by the people is total bullshit.
and I seriously doubt that they sought permission from congress or even the president to go into war with UK...
so is hacking an act of war or not? obviously not.
and now, why would any of those countries arrest anyone and ship them to USA for hacking when USA claims that they're criminals?
(actually this whole thing is result of the fucked fucked fucked up way that is the american criminal "investigation" which basically in many cases is creating crime so that they can then catch the criminals for crimes the authorities arranged to happen)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
a foreign govt agency attacks any citizen of my nation its technically a state of war that gets declared after all its your govt attacking ....
and i bet you thought this would bring us real hackers down low....and yet you not only failed , you bring us more power....you keep it up we'll start running for office and people will trust us and vote for us....then we'll shut you the hell down. FOR GOOD
@lucm: "the only explanation that makes sense is that they were hoping that this operation would at some point lead them to Assange (who had prior contacts with Sabu)"
The only other explanation being yet another attempt to discredit Assange by linking him to alleged attempts to 'hack' the Icelandic Ministry of Finance.
The secret is that the hackers caught the authorities covering up hidden information about an Imperial King sucking a 16 year olds dick.
Oh, my aching sides! Are you here all week?