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UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: British police have made a third arrest in connection with a cyber attack this month on telecoms company TalkTalk, in which the company said bank details of more than 20,000 customers were hacked. We mentioned the first of the three arrests on Monday; a second arrest took place Thursday, as related by Ars Technica, of a 16-year-old from west London. The latest arrest is of a 20-year-old from Staffordshire.
And that is why I find it difficult to believe all the claims of "Chinese hackers" who are "attacking" sites.
Teenagers can crack a telecom. It isn't because the kids are that good. It's because so many organizations are that bad at basic security.
British Internet and mobile phone company.
Quite a large one. Lots of customers. We'd really expect a company this size to be able to resist some teenage script kiddies. The nature of the breech means that a lot of customer details have been compromised.
Outlawing guns only keeps them from lawful people. Criminals still get them anyway.
Guns are extremely rarely used in crime in the UK. Criminals know that if they appear anywhere with a gun, all the police over a very wide radius will descend on them like a ton of bricks; it isn't worth it.
I would have no idea how to get a gun if I decided to commit a crime with one, and most criminals, who are petty criminals anyway, would have no idea either. Even if such a small criminal, a house burglar say, happened to know a serious criminal gang who could possible provide him with one, they would be extremely unlikely to provide it to him at any price, not wanting to be linked to him. Their attitude would be "WTF do you need a gun for, just to burgle a house?". Because if the police found anyone with a gun, they would get the provider's name out of him.