just an idea i came up with reading some recent news aobut what the gov is up to on the law front and thought to my self hmm good timing on this "hack attacks" for laws to be pushed throught the house and what not, hell bet the nsa gets more money from all this media to it is an elecetion year after all:) interesting to since clinton didnt go with all the 3 letter agencys with teh whole wire tapping thing.. makes ya wonder huh so take this all with a grain of salt while i get back to schoolwork:) With the recent attacks on such high profile websites as ebay.com, etrade.com, buy.com and several other high profile sites it makes u wonder is the web really secure? Or is something behind this all that has a greater cause I mean anyone who has half a brain can figure out the answer to the first question HELL NO the net isn't secure, does the society know that as a whole? no most people are ignorant to the net and how it all works, hell just the media coverage of this whole event is comical, I have heard such phrases as a team of super hackers to maybe a 15 year old genius is behind this all.. Get real folks this attack was coordinated and planned out which means that it had to be orchestrated by a TEAM of people.. Another interesting point to this whole situation is the fact that no one has come forward to claim responsibility, now this may not seem odd to most but to me it strikes a very, very bad note in my ear, I mean in this age of hacktivsom and web defacements it seems that "hackers" (note sarcasm) are in it for more of an ego boost of there most manly nerdism.,I mean really if there was a group of hackers out there who were private and had some sort of motive don't u think they would have said by now free Tibet or some bullshit like that? but what do you hear from the underground??? NOT A DMAN THING! everyone is trying to figure out who is behind it all what is their motive? well what I present to you is some what of a I guess u can say a "paranoid", I may not be the most educated person in the world but by sheer correlation some of this stuff IF true is kind of interesting this is by no means a final opinion just a thought I wish to share with the world to further conversation on this topic.. WHAT IF this so called team of hackers was federally sponsored? I mean we all have read about the feds building up cyber terrorism groups for security we all know that there is a HUGE push int the senate and oval office and Langley for more money to be spent on security. Even the larger software companies are lobbying for laws that include such oddities as waving of personal rights of privacy b(by means of remote information gathering and licensing bla bla) wouldn't it be great to get mainstream America on the bandwagon of surveillance on the net. I mean if the mainstream was behind the gov on passing billls that are now very controversial in dealing with personal; info and privacy maybe they could eek by some questionable laws in the name of joe public, hell with the revelation of echelon that just shows that WORLD governments are in on this mindset of the government. I mean think about it if the government WERE to "attack" sites what better attack then DoS attacks? I mean really they cause no harm they don't corrupt data or kill servers all it does is clog the line for a bit yes there is revenue lost but nothing nearly as catastrophic as reformatting a HDD, it is a relatively "safe" attack, but it does garnish media attention image not being able to log on to the worlds largest website for 3 hours!!! OMG the world is going to end what is happening? talk about publicity for those who don't understand the net it must seem like Armageddon I mean relay those super l337 hackers must be skilled, in all reality what better cover I mean in an attack of any sort you don't want to give away your potential to the enemy right? no need to clue them in on your true skill, plus if u use a lame attack u can say its readily available and blame it on any lil "script kiddies" right? so lets go back to the whole gov idea.. if a government was behind this wouldn't u want to attack in a way that would cause little or no damage but garnish as much media hype as possible? and then be able to pin it on Aol like 15 year old script kiddies? I mean what more of a perfect wrap could u develop? and if some how it was traced back to a government in some rare way (very very unlikely cause if a gov was behind it they would be using a private domain) all they had to say was HUH omg this 21 year old sys admin pulled on us bad bad super hacker, when in all actuality an idiot could run a program and click send, I by no means am saying imp an expert here but just merely a person with an opinion and some ideas and a possible view on a problem that has happened.... and hell by me writing and sending this over a wire to the net it will be recorded and sifted thought by some 3 letter agency and possibly flagged for further investigation, u ask how? I respond by saying the governments of the world have allot at stake in this new era of tech and they want more control over the way things function (for sake of national and international security of course) well plse respond to this post with ideas/comments as imp interested in others view points... PacktSwtchd PS (plse take into mind I wrote this up between homework so my thinking process is fried a bit plse email me back if you read this message as i will or can write adn article that diggs deeper into this
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just an idea i came up with reading some recent news aobut what the gov is up to on the law front and thought to my self hmm good timing on this "hack attacks" for laws to be pushed throught the house and what not, hell bet the nsa gets more money from all this media to it is an elecetion year after all :) interesting to since clinton didnt go with all the 3 letter agencys with teh whole wire tapping thing.. makes ya wonder huh so take this all with a grain of salt while i get back to schoolwork :) With the recent attacks on such high profile websites as ebay.com, etrade.com, buy.com and several other high profile sites it makes u wonder is the web really secure? Or is something behind this all that has a greater cause I mean anyone who has half a brain can figure out the answer to the first question HELL NO the net isn't secure, does the society know that as a whole? no most people are ignorant to the net and how it all works, hell just the media coverage of this whole event is comical, I have heard such phrases as a team of super hackers to maybe a 15 year old genius is behind this all.. Get real folks this attack was coordinated and planned out which means that it had to be orchestrated by a TEAM of people.. Another interesting point to this whole situation is the fact that no one has come forward to claim responsibility, now this may not seem odd to most but to me it strikes a very, very bad note in my ear, I mean in this age of hacktivsom and web defacements it seems that "hackers" (note sarcasm) are in it for more of an ego boost of there most manly nerdism. ,I mean really if there was a group of hackers out there who were private and had some sort of motive don't u think they would have said by now free Tibet or some bullshit like that? but what do you hear from the underground??? NOT A DMAN THING! everyone is trying to figure out who is behind it all what is their motive? well what I present to you is some what of a I guess u can say a "paranoid", I may not be the most educated person in the world but by sheer correlation some of this stuff IF true is kind of interesting this is by no means a final opinion just a thought I wish to share with the world to further conversation on this topic.. WHAT IF this so called team of hackers was federally sponsored? I mean we all have read about the feds building up cyber terrorism groups for security we all know that there is a HUGE push int the senate and oval office and Langley for more money to be spent on security. Even the larger software companies are lobbying for laws that include such oddities as waving of personal rights of privacy b(by means of remote information gathering and licensing bla bla) wouldn't it be great to get mainstream America on the bandwagon of surveillance on the net. I mean if the mainstream was behind the gov on passing billls that are now very controversial in dealing with personal; info and privacy maybe they could eek by some questionable laws in the name of joe public, hell with the revelation of echelon that just shows that WORLD governments are in on this mindset of the government. I mean think about it if the government WERE to "attack" sites what better attack then DoS attacks? I mean really they cause no harm they don't corrupt data or kill servers all it does is clog the line for a bit yes there is revenue lost but nothing nearly as catastrophic as reformatting a HDD, it is a relatively "safe" attack, but it does garnish media attention image not being able to log on to the worlds largest website for 3 hours!!! OMG the world is going to end what is happening? talk about publicity for those who don't understand the net it must seem like Armageddon I mean relay those super l337 hackers must be skilled, in all reality what better cover I mean in an attack of any sort you don't want to give away your potential to the enemy right? no need to clue them in on your true skill, plus if u use a lame attack u can say its readily available and blame it on any lil "script kiddies" right? so lets go back to the whole gov idea.. if a government was behind this wouldn't u want to attack in a way that would cause little or no damage but garnish as much media hype as possible? and then be able to pin it on Aol like 15 year old script kiddies? I mean what more of a perfect wrap could u develop? and if some how it was traced back to a government in some rare way (very very unlikely cause if a gov was behind it they would be using a private domain) all they had to say was HUH omg this 21 year old sys admin pulled on us bad bad super hacker, when in all actuality an idiot could run a program and click send, I by no means am saying imp an expert here but just merely a person with an opinion and some ideas and a possible view on a problem that has happened.... and hell by me writing and sending this over a wire to the net it will be recorded and sifted thought by some 3 letter agency and possibly flagged for further investigation, u ask how? I respond by saying the governments of the world have allot at stake in this new era of tech and they want more control over the way things function (for sake of national and international security of course) well plse respond to this post with ideas/comments as imp interested in others view points... PacktSwtchd PS (plse take into mind I wrote this up between homework so my thinking process is fried a bit plse email me back if you read this message as i will or can write adn article that diggs deeper into this