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hackers attack improved network security -> network security improves more
infinite irony
Amazon's distributed Data Centers work pretty well.
4Chan tried to take them down, and failed miserably.
lol really, how does it work then?
sony can't change the firmware any time they want? oh wait yes they can, it's the first thing you agree to when you TURN IT ON.
yeah it's too bad they had to remove otherOS - blame the hackers and crackers. sony had no choice, or do you think they should just let their entire system go to shit from rampant cheating in online games? if that happened people would be DEMANDING they update the firmware and fix it... lol
all you have to do is not update the firmware if you really want to use otherOS.
for all of the .002% of the user base that wants to legitimately.
you can bet your ass those "caught" in turkey are, at best, script kiddies tangentially involved by googling anonymous once, and at worst dissidents/ in any other way detested by the regime, now rotting in prison
Anonymous, I think, is not a group of close knit individuals, but an idea, and as such pretty much any dickhole or saint can call himself that- And it's a perfect fucking scapegoat to throw a few unwanted people in jail and control the internet, and people are already buying in on it as we all see.
Having (probably) western-sourced stuxnet trying to sabotage nuclear facilities in iran? Lol shit happens!
Having someone hack my favourite video game?!? SHIT take my freedom away in this 9/11 of video games
There are some tricks to flexible load balancing that can reduce the impact of a DDoS without requiring a ton of redundant backend hardware. And general internet topography is slowly changing in a way that will help mitigate this shit too.
You either do not understand the system or are a complete shill for the industry.
e: although, they claim he wasn't officially part of their group
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/21/alleged-lulzsec-suspect-arrested-in-uk/
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Probably not many, considering that the vast majority of these assholes are snot-nosed script kiddies with very little in the way of actual technical knowledge.
Well they are at least one step ahead of the people currently employed to keep these servers up and running...
Do they get membership cards? Or is there a database somewhere with a big list of officially sanctioned LulzSec operatives
Definitely true of the DDoS kids, but the term script kiddie is pretty out of date at this point. Even as the prefab tools have gotten more elegant, the overall processes have gotten far more complicated. Where you used to download a tool, click a button to poison an ARP cache, and that was step 1 of 3, now you might be able to autopilot into some Facebook accounts on public wifi, but to steal user info databases whole, even with a dozen pre-written tools, would take a pretty decent understanding of the systems in question. It's pretty far from the fire-and-forget heyday of script kiddies from like 1995 to 2002 or so.
Still, you're right to think very likely none of these people will get jobs out of this. There are plenty of people going into IT security through legitimate channels that are just as smart or smarter. It's not worth the baggage of trying to convert an established troublemaker for most institutions. It's really unlikely that there's a savant capable of consistently generating new penetration methods among the group. Way more likely that you're looking at people taking advantage of a current round of exploits while the gettin' is good and willing to go for more high profile targets than usual.
It looks like a more profound issue than usual, because you have a loosely organized group that is doing it as a social cause and publicity stunt. And their own publicity on it forces the targets to discuss the attacks publicly as well. Under other conditions, a new round of exploits would mean your bank gets hit for 50,000 accounts, info gets dumped on a Russian black market, and your bank might mail you a polite letter about how they're sorting it out for you. The organization or cause or whatever probably isn't generating an abnormal additional number of attacks in the time period, just more public awareness of them.
Also hiring these miscreants would only encourage more like them and Frank Abagnale wasn't recruited into security. He served two prison sentences in Europe and 4 of a 12-year prison sentence in the US before being granted early release for helping the FBI catch other frauds. His success in legal fraud detection was after he completed his work with the feds and started his own business.
Companies just don't go a hire someone with federal charges against them.
This is a staggeringly stupid thing to say.
I think maybe what you mean is anyone who doesn't realize the prison system in America has serious problems is well on their way to being willfully ignorant.
This kid ain't the next Steve Jobs.
More like Steve Handjobs if you get what I'm sayin...
Unless they're the Dallas Cowboys.
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I guess all that time spent in a dark room with a dirt floor and a bucket to shit in didn't test well with the "Catch Me If You Can" audiences.
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Actually, it was common enough through the 90s to turn fairly high profile illicit activities around into cushy private sector careers or be consulted as advisers in congressional committee hearings.
That's racist.
That link doesn't mention anyone being hired as a consultant after being brought up on federal charges.
The fact that professional athletes are prone to amoral decisions and questionable legality has less to do with race/economics and more to do with the nature in which their wealth is thrust upon them. Having a criminal record is as common in professional golf as it is in football.
edit: This was meant for Butters' post. Enc, that was a joke on my part.
Butters, the text to which I applied the link doesn't assert anything you seem to be countering.
Cite plz. Pretty sure the NFL leads all other US sports organizations for jail time by a pretty wide margin.
NBA = 450
NHL = 690
MLB = 750
NFL = 1696
oh if only there were some magical way we could mathematically compare the rate at which NFL players offend..
As president of the SE++ Scientician Club...
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I learned that from Happy Gilmore.
http://gizmodo.com/5814117/is-this-the-lulzsecanon-warriors-handbook
http://pastehtml.com/view/1dzvxhl.html
none of this is really advanced at all :?