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US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches (justice.gov)
An anonymous reader writes: The Islamic State hacker detained at Bukit Aman in Kuala Lumpur, has been identified as 20-year-old Kosovo student name Ardit Ferizi. The U.S. arrest warrant alleges that the Kosovo hacker executed computer attacks and committed theft violations, stealing the personally identifiable information of members of the U.S. military and federal employees. The Department of Justice warned that the leaked data was intended for the "purpose of encouraging terrorist attacks against those individuals."
or, Is Slashdot's Interpretation Slanted?
It is akin to intellectual property, so property-related words are fine to use in this context, as they always have been.
Perpetrators, of which some you no doubt support, self-describe as "pirates".
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
At its root, "theft" is described as taking something that is not yours. I do believe this qualifies under that definition.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Well just hack off his right hand, and if it wasn't theft, Allah will put it back on.
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Does it mean he has rights granted by the constitution or will he be held in perpetuum as an enemy combatant?
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Really? If you were caught advertently or inadvertently causing a security breach at your company, we could line you up along the wall as well?
ISIS is evil. Full stop. Anyone found guilty of knowingly consorting with them should be executed
They say the exact same about us
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And there are people around the world who believe that the Americans are terrorists for invading countries, torturing people, and doing things like blowing up hospitals. And they are taking your advice and killing the terrorists.
BTW, the Russians aren't targeting ISIS. They are leaving that to the others. The Russians are bombing the rebels who were allied with the US that are going after Assad. The idea is that Russia and Assad can take out Assad's enemies while the rest of the world can work on ISIS. Then when Assad has complete control of Syria again then he can concentrate on ISIS.
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Theft
a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
Taking something that doesn't belong to you where it does not deprive the owner of it is not theft. It could be considered copying; or copyright infringement, perhaps, but not theft per se.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
On paper yes. In reality no. In 2007 planned attack on Fort Dix. 2011 attack on US troops at Frankfurt airport.
Theft:
a: the act of stealing
We don't need to go any further:
From Dictionary.com: Steal:
1) to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force:
2) to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Merriam Webster has similar definitions for steal.
The list wasn't his, and wasn't available to him. Sounds like theft to me.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
theft /THeft/
noun
the action or crime of stealing.
"he was convicted of theft"
synonyms: robbery, stealing, thieving, larceny, thievery, shoplifting, burglary, misappropriation, appropriation, embezzlement;
Sorry, but that doesn't describe, in the slightest, the act of copying information.
Shot?
No....
But I think the FBI and the Atty General should likely bring her up on charges akin to what Gen. Petrayus (sp?) and others that have mishandled classified Federal information.
If you or I had done what "H" has been shown to have done, we'd already be negotiating for guilty plea and hoping for some mercy from the legal system.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Where do think that ISIL's gets all it arms and Toyota trucks?
From ignorant ACs like you. They aren't getting them directly from the US. Many of the weapons and materials were taken from the Iraq military when they pissed their pants and ran.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
It depends on how massively you bomb the area.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Security forces retreated from the Malaab area of Ramadi at 1:30 p.m., abandoning about 60 military vehicles, including military-grade Humvees, said Col. Nasser al-Alwani of the Ramadi police force. About half of the abandoned vehicles were sent by the U.S.-backed government on Saturday to reinforce the neighborhood, he added.
https://news.vice.com/article/...
Police and soldiers stripped out of their uniforms and abandoned their equipment on the road as they fled.
http://www.rferl.org/content/i...
One day before the Iraqi soldier gave his account to RFE/RL on May 25, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter accused Iraqi forces of showing "no will to fight" and having "failed to fight" in Ramadi despite "vastly outnumber[ing]" the enemy, retreating and leaving behind large numbers of U.S.-supplied vehicles, including tanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
After the end of the war, both the CIA and the U.S. State Department were tasked with continuing to identify and collect arms that had flooded the country during the war, particularly shoulder-fired missiles taken from the arsenal of the Gaddafi regime,[32][33] as well as securing Libyan chemical weapons stockpiles, and helping to train Libya's new intelligence service.[29]
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Multiple anonymous sources reported that the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was used by the CIA as a cover to smuggle weapons from Libya to anti-Assad rebels in Syria.[30]:56[34][36][37][38] Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh cites an anonymous former senior Defense Department intelligence official, saying "The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms. It had no real political role." The attack allegedly brought an end to the purported U.S. involvement, but did not stop the smuggling according to Hersh's source.[39] In January 2014, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence cast doubt on this alleged U.S. involvement and reported that "All CIA activities in Benghazi were legal and authorized. On-the-record testimony establishes that the CIA was not sending weapons ... from Libya to Syria, or facilitating other organizations or states that were transferring weapons from Libya to Syria."[40]
Care to try again? The CIA was collecting arms, not distributing, unless you subscribe to the local Tin Foil Anonymous.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
He (allegedly) took something that isn't his. How is that not stealing?
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
http://www.france24.com/en/20141224-west-underestimates-danger-jurgen-todenhofer-embedded-islamic-state-syria-iraq/
German journalist Jurgen Todenhofer, who recently spent 10 days with Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria, tells FRANCE 24 they buy Western weapons from Syrian rebels and envision a future that includes a massive "religious cleansing"
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Todenhofer went on to say that the IS militants are being armed by the West – if only indirectly – as Western moves to arm moderate Syrian rebels have backfired.
“They buy the weapons that we give to the Free Syrian Army, so they get Western weapons – they get French weapons I saw German weapons, I saw American weapons,” he said.
“The best seller of weapons is the Free Syrian Army, which is financed by NATO, financed probably also by France, but at least by the United States.”
Mod parent up!!! The US went out of its way in making an enemy out of Serbia - a country that had never been hostile to the US, and backing Muslims of both Bosnia and Kosovo against Serbia.
Now, one would think that this would make the Muslims friends of the US, and the Serbs the enemies, right? Logically, we should have seen anti-US terror acts originating from Belgrade, right? But guess what? It has been the Muslims from anywhere and everywhere who've plotted against the US. It was a Bosnian who pulled off a shooting in a mall in Salt Lake City, UT some years ago. It was a Kosovar who participated in Fort Hood. In addition to supporting the Mohammedans against the Serbs, the US has also been supportive of Chechen Jihadis against the Russians. Yet, it was 2 Chechens - the Tsarnayev bothers - who pulled off the Boston Marathon bombings. Not non-Muslim Russkies, but Chechens! Note that!
Yet, you have the brown nosers of the Mohammedans - be it Jihad Wahabi Bush or Mubarak Hussein Obama - who bend over backwards to grovel before Mohammedans. Not that any of that brownnosing has won us any friends.
Like I pointed out above, this was not the first Kosovo citizen to have done this. There was another who participated in Fort Hood. A Bosnian did the shootings in Salt Lake City, UT. In addition to supporting Bosnia and Kosovo, the US supported the Chechens and Uzbek Jihadis as well. Yet, the Tsarnayev brothers did the Boston Marathon bombings, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is now a part of ISIS. There are plenty of 'individuals' from all the Muslim groups that the US has supported, which brings up the point of the GP - that supporting Muslim 'freedom struggles' against anybody is a self destructive exercise in futility
While Israel has been somewhat quiet about the Syrian civil war, they had misgivings about all the Sunni parties from the start of the war, due to their links w/ the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Hamas, which had relations w/ the Assad regime, broke that off once the war started at the behest of the Muslim Brotherhood. Israeli officials had privately been on record as saying that the devil they know is better than the ones they don't. While they have their issues w/ the Baath regime due to its links w/ Hizbullah, they are even more apprehensive about all Sunni parties - be it al Nusra, the Free Syrian Army, Khorasan or ISIS. The GP may have been right about the US, but not about Israel.
If the Israelis wanted Assad gone, they'd have supported the FAS, al Nusra and ISIS. They actually have more sense than that then the cretins in Washington, both Democrat & Republican. They know that removing Assad would result in the ISIS in Damascus, which is why they have left them alone. That however doesn't nor shouldn't stop them from bombing supply lines to Hizbullah in Lebanon, where they are more involved in bombing Galilee than fighting ISIS
We aren't great guys either, but Putin is fighting for Assad, who can compete with Isis evil for evil. The US doesn't want ISIS taken out, because ISIS will cost Putin and the Iranians a lot to defeat. US just doesn't want ISIS overrunning Baghdad.
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Theft:
a: the act of stealing
We don't need to go any further:
From Dictionary.com:
Steal:
1) to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force:
2) to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Nope, does not fit.
1) Owner still has the property in question (presumably a physical data storage device with data); property was not taken.
2) He acknowledged his source ("We hacked the military")
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Really? If you were caught advertently or inadvertently causing a security breach at your company, we could line you up along the wall as well?
You misunderstand who I hold responsible. I am not talking about us, the insufficient technical resources who have the impossible job of securing critical infrastructure using commercial products against enemies who wield military technology against us.
We are not at fault. We are doing what we can with the resources that we have available - in other words we are not sleeping at our posts in a time of 'cyber' war.
A soldier on guard duty who falls asleep at his post in a time of war may be punished by death:
“Any sentinel or look-out who is found drunk or sleeping upon his post, or leaves it before he is regularly relieved, shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by death..."
http://usmilitary.about.com/li...
Why should politicians and other decision makers who fail to allocate the necessary resources to secure critical infrastructure not share the same fate?
It isn't like they tried their best and failed. They dicked around, knowing full well that we have been under (for lack of a better term) cyber attack for the last ten years and have done nothing substantial to stop it.
Now how many good people have their balls (metaphorically speaking) on the table because the decision makers fucked up?
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
Really? If you were caught advertently or inadvertently causing a security breach at your company, we could line you up along the wall as well?
YMBNH. OP is a slashdot reader, and therefore incapable of making any sheeple-y computer-related mistake.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it