70 Law Enforcement Sites Hacked

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Well, they’re still at it…

“The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it has hacked into some 70 law enforcement websites across the southern and central United States in retaliation for arrests of its sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain.

The hacking group also claimed to have stolen 10 gigabytes of data, including emails, credit card details, and other information from local law enforcement bodies.

"We are releasing a massive amount of confidential information that is sure to (embarrass), discredit and incriminate police officers across the US," the group said in a statement, adding that it hoped the leak would "demonstrate the inherently corrupt nature of law enforcement using their own words" and "disrupt and sabotage their ability to communicate and terrorize communities."

Anonymous' claims couldn't all be immediately verified, but a review of the sites it claims to have targeted — mainly sheriffs' offices in places such as Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Mississippi — showed that most were unavailable or had been wiped clean of content.” (AP)- MSNBC

Apparently it’s not so easy to catch these birds.

I wonder… apart from childish, angry behavior and showing an ability to compromise some penny ante sites, do they think the pursuit of the hacker group is going to stop?

I believe it’s delusional to believe that pouring gasoline on fires extinguishes them.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

The purpose of anonymous is not to make anyone back off, but to rally more to their cause.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Just goes to show what I said about "catching them" (hackers etc.) originally is holding true.  The "catching them" attitude is doing exactly that as well......fueling the fire.  The only way to not make onself a target in the first place is to not piss someone (the wrong someone) off.  Once you've made yourself a target.......well then there just isn't anything to do but try to change the things the "bad guys" used (rightly or wrongly) to justify their actions and wait it out.

Sad really.

Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's a shame these guys don't put their skills to better use...maybe something for the good of the country. Like maybe hack the payroll for these greedy corrupt politicians and give them a decrease in pay and take away all their perks.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Now, what I wonder is if they are just doing this for the laughs or is this some kind of Anarchy movement using modern technology?

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting TorinReborn, reply 4
Now, what I wonder is if they are just doing this for the laughs or is this some kind of Anarchy movement using modern technology?
End of TorinReborn's quote

They do it because they are sick in the head and are total worthless scum who did not even deserve the sperm it took to create them. >:(

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

they need to hack area 51 and let the world know we have alien technology

 

Quoting WebGizmos, reply 3
It's a shame these guys don't put their skills to better use...maybe something for the good of the country. Like maybe hack the payroll for these greedy corrupt politicians and give them a decrease in pay and take away all their perks.
End of WebGizmos's quote

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DisturbedComputer, reply 6
they need to hack area 51 and let the world know we have alien technology
End of DisturbedComputer's quote

You mean.....

do something actually interesting/worthwhile?

 

Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Sometimes they do. We've gotten stories of civilian killings that never would have seen the light of day otherwise from these groups, and they are also no friends of Syria, N. Korea, and other big repressive countries.

 

This particular attack seems to be more aimed at self-preservation than advancing any larger agenda. If Anonymous is justified in their other activities, then they're justified here as well. If not, then no.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 8
If Anonymous is justified in their other activities, then they're justified here as well. If not, then no.
End of Scoutdog's quote

 

Nothing justifies illegally hacking into another computer system, and as far as their statement of:

 

"We are releasing a massive amount of confidential information that is sure to (embarrass), discredit and incriminate police officers across the US," the group said in a statement, adding that it hoped the leak would "demonstrate the inherently corrupt nature of law enforcement using their own words" and "disrupt and sabotage their ability to communicate and terrorize communities."

 

There are corrupt people everywhere, they call them politicians, lawyers, stock speculators (oil prices), etc.  Human greed runs deep ... not one single human being on this planet is perfect.  If they do release this information, I am sure they will alter it to fit their agenda or not release "the whole story".

 

Like I said before, they are scum.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Woho, that's awesome. :D

Quoting LightStar, reply 9
Nothing justifies illegally hacking into another computer system
End of LightStar's quote
Nothing?

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting LightStar, reply 9
"We are releasing a massive amount of confidential information that is sure to (embarrass), discredit and incriminate police officers across the US," the group said in a statement, adding that it hoped the leak would "demonstrate the inherently corrupt nature of law enforcement using their own words" and "disrupt and sabotage their ability to communicate and terrorize communities."
End of LightStar's quote

If that's their aim, then they're idiots - Illegally obtained evidence is a 4th Amendment violation and cannot be used to incriminate anyone.

The fools never even learned that much about one of the greatest, poorly understood and misused documents ever written.

Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting LightStar, reply 9
If they do release this information, I am sure they will alter it to fit their agenda or not release "the whole story".
End of LightStar's quote
If these organizations are guilty of anything regarding the information they release, it's that they don't process it. At all. They often reveal informants and witnesses, making bystanders vulnerable to retribution. The information is not processed in any way, just taken from whoever has it and dumped on the web. There's little or usually no editing or removal of content.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

As I have said in other threads of this nature, the tools of today that folks use to commit crimes are new, the crimes are not, they have been going on for a very long time.  :S

The means and the mind set have been there and more than likely will never go away, that is unless we just one day go ahead and start killing folks for their illegal activities.  :O

I tell you one thing, the over population problem would be taken care of.  :-"

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

I continue to wonder if Anonymous is secretly working for the government itself.

 

Most of us know all sorts of politicians (among other very powerful people) are trying to drastically limit the freedom of the internet as of late.  Acts like these are EXACTLY what the US government needs right now to tighten-up security, to the point all of us are going to see the effects.  Any large-scale cyber attacks are only going to be the perfect reason/excuse to do this.

 

If Anonymous was truly anti-government/corporate establishment etc, I would like to think they'd use their abilities with far higher goals in mind, or at least use their heads little bit (they're so damn talented at hacking afterall).  Either way, none of this is going to help anybody... including those they supposedly did all this "for".

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Victor5, reply 14
Most of us know many politicians (among other powerful people) are trying to drastically limit the freedom of the internet. 
End of Victor5's quote

I know there's movement to decrease crime on the net... If you hold that freedom means getting away with crime, then, yeah. Most of us favor a crime free internet or as close to that as we can get.

This gives you an idea of the cost of crime on the net:

http:/www.infopackets.com/news/security/2011/20110804_cyber_crime_costs_take_big_jump_in_2011_report.htm

Also... how much anti crime software we wouldn't need to waste money on.

Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Victor5, reply 14
I continue to wonder if Anonymous is secretly working for the government itself.



Most of us know all sorts of politicians (among other very powerful people) are trying to drastically limit the freedom of the internet as of late. Acts like these are EXACTLY what the US government needs right now to tighten-up security, to the point all of us are going to see the effects. Any large-scale cyber attacks are only going to be the perfect reason/excuse to do this.



If Anonymous was truly anti-government/corporate establishment etc, I would like to think they'd use their abilities with far higher goals in mind, or at least use their heads little bit (they're so damn talented at hacking afterall). Either way, none of this is going to help anybody... including those they supposedly did all this "for".
End of Victor5's quote
The problem with that is it would require smart people to come up with. We've had real live conspiracies before: Watergate and Yellowcake and more legislation for sale than I can name. Universally, they blow up due to shoddy planning, talkative underlings, or the conspirators' own colossal egoes.

Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

Let me begin by saying that as a privileged American citizen, I am satisfied but bored with the status quo. Racism has become mostly invisible, corporations are closing their grasp on our governmental bodies, and Mountain Dew comes in as many flavors as 90's coke. That is not to say that I don't thoroughly enjoy a little chaos.

What those hackers really need is a clear, evil, target to go after. They need a leader, a symbol, to get behind and an other to struggle against. I personally respect the police force in America. It is less corrupt and slightly less revolting than the majority of other countries I have visited. I have no beef with them. So, when I hear of 70 of their precious information sites being hacked I want you to understand that I really enjoy it. Chaos is necessary. It makes us stronger, more able to handle the future. Corporations and their subjugated governments need to learn how to secure their information. If it takes a few amateur cyber attacks to get the ball rolling, so be it. And if we lose our basic freedoms, more chaos will rise.

I am guessing that in the next 20 years, cyber crimes will become a primary source of crime. It will be corporations vying for information as well as the chaotic criminals and their robinhoodesque attacks on our wonderful society. Task forces and restricting laws will be put into place. It will be seen as an evil and some may even find it a just cause for rebellion.

Lets be honest, none of these attacks does anything to me, except force me to deal with the repercussions. I want the government to restrict our freedoms so that some others can fight to get it back. I want them to be eventually the fathers of antigovernment freedom fighters. I want to watch it all on CNN and Fox.

The problem with our postmodern society is that we have so much to content us that no one is willing to muck it up by fighting back. All the heroes and villains are busy watching Glee. So am I.

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Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 7
they need to hack area 51 and let the world know we have alien technology

You mean.....

do something actually interesting/worthwhile?

End of Jafo's quote

sure if that's what you mean ... something on that line..   unless you was just being sarcastic it's hard to tell with you at times

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 12
If these organizations are guilty of anything regarding the information they release, it's that they don't process it. At all. They often reveal informants and witnesses, making bystanders vulnerable to retribution. The information is not processed in any way, just taken from whoever has it and dumped on the web. There's little or usually no editing or removal of content.
End of Scoutdog's quote

So they say.

You know, the reason Site Members here are prohibited from posting contents of Private Messages publicly on the Forums is because the content CAN BE ALTERED and no-one in the Community will know.  So the "truth" can be manipulated.

In this microcosm you'll get a warning...and eventually an exiling.

These little children deserve the equivalent..... certainly nothing better.

 

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Luckmann, reply 10
Woho, that's awesome.


Quoting LightStar, reply 9Nothing justifies illegally hacking into another computer systemNothing?
End of Luckmann's quote

Correct. Nothing.

 

Reply #21 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 19
So they say.
End of Jafo's quote
We could all just be living in the Matrix. Did you think of that? In fact, I only have your word that you're a Stardock employee and not a sentient computer system impersonating a Stardock employee. 

If they altered stuff, seems to me they would slip up and occasionally get caught either when someone tried to act on their information or when it was checked by others along the chain of publication. Now, not all of it can be checked or acted upon, but everything outside of pure mathematics has an alpha level, and hacker vetting isn't any different.

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 21
We could all just be living in the Matrix. Did you think of that? In fact, I only have your word that you're a Stardock employee and not a sentient computer system impersonating a Stardock employee. 
End of Scoutdog's quote

Well, like George Bishop Berkeley (whose Empiricist philosophy you are paraphrasing) you could always find out empirically with a matrix of [-1]... lol...  

Reply #23 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 22


Well, like George Bishop Berkeley (whose Empiricist philosophy you are paraphrasing) you could always find out empirically with a matrix of [-1]... lol...
End of DrJBHL's quote
I was actually thinking more along the lines of Descartes and the question of how a true skeptic can be sure he exists (the genesis of "cogito ergo sum"). I've never heard of this Berkeley fellow before, but he sounds interesting. To Wikipedia!

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Why do we have to think of that? George Bishop Berkeley did that long before The Matrix (or Necromancer) did.

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 21
In fact, I only have your word that you're a Stardock employee and not a sentient computer system impersonating a Stardock employee.
End of Scoutdog's quote

Who says I'm sentient?

I'll have his balls....