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Stratfor Hacked, Anonymous Denies Guilt

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Stratfor Hacked, Anonymous Denies Guilt

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Stratfor is an open code US based security think tank. It evaluates present and future threats from open Internet sources. M.I.6/CIA/DIA this info isn’t.

"The Stratfor hack is not the work of Anonymous. Stratfor is an open source intelligence agency, publishing daily reports on data collected from the open Internet. Hackers claiming to be Anonymous have distorted this truth in order to further their hidden agenda, and some Anons have taken the bait," the group claimed in an online communiqué.

- Trent Nouveau, http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/60413-anonymous-denies-stratfor-hack

Well, no surprise that LulzSec/Anonymous or some other group of sociopaths has hacked yet another site.

For Stratfor, it’s embarrassing and, for its subscribers, worse. Names, addresses, and credit card info was stolen. Names were posted on the net.

The immature hackers (whoever they are: ho hum) have only shown that some company doesn’t know how to keep its customers’ info properly encrypted and guarded. Big news item, that.

In fact, it was probably so easy that Anonymous was ashamed to be guilty of it.

Stratfor confirmed the attack and theft of identities and credit information and that they were only subscribers to a newsletter.

Please, someone: Buy these kids some finger paints. To the kiddies with the expensive toys more properly used as computers should be: Get a life.

And would someone please teach these companies how to secure data the best possible way (by NOT storing it)!

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Sinperium, reply 25
My point is simply that "wishing away the US" is not going to usher in "the age of peace"
End of Sinperium's quote

If you insist on using phrases in quotation marks it'd probably be clever to actually use the Forum tool for such so that you're NOT yet again giving the appearance of attributing statements to someone who said no such thing.

Have a lend of the truth...have a lend of reality...but don't include others in the fantasy.

Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top

It's to emphasize the absurdity.

My point in regards to the original OP was simply that vulnerabilities and  instabilities in the areas of cyber security can really have serious consequences--and I used my own country as an example.  My intent was not to begin to argue neo-politics over "How evil is America?" and to question grammar usage.

Stable large nation with lots of cash and firepower and at least some restraint + a world of other nations with firepower and many of them with much less restraint = "Good".  Remove said influence and see who grabs at the opportunity="Not so good".

Whether it's America or not doesn't really matter.  If Finland was stabilizing the world, I would have said the same thing in the same sort of circumstances.

I'm just hoping now that Finland hasn't done something to make the internet mad.

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Sinperium, reply 27
It's to emphasize the absurdity.
End of Sinperium's quote

Quotation marks mean quotation, not emphasis.

Underline, italics, enlarged font...caps...take your pick...

THIS IS EMPHASIS

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

Forum Laws now?

Writers use scare quotes for a variety of reasons. When the enclosed text is a quotation from another source, scare quotes may indicate that the writer does not accept the usage of the phrase (or the phrase itself),[3] that the writer feels its use is potentially ironic, or that the writer feels it is a misnomer. This meaning may serve to distance the writer from the quoted content.

If scare quotes are enclosing a word or phrase that does not represent a quotation from another source they may simply serve to alert the reader that the word or phrase is used in an unusual, special, or "non-standard" way or should be understood to include caveats to the conventional meaning.


 

Example 2:

 

  • Kazakhstan's famous "130-year-old"—Headline on BBC News web site[6]

 

The quotation marks around 130-year-old indicate that the news source is reporting but not endorsing the claim.

 

Other cases

 

Examples:

 

  • creation "science" or Creation "Museum"
  • "normal" people


 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting myfist0, reply 29

scare quotes may indicate that the writer does not accept the usage of the phrase (or the phrase itself)...that the writer feels its use is potentially ironic
End of myfist0's quote

The above would be it and THIS is SPARTA!  (As in, "too much dramatic emphasis".)*






*Please note the ironic usage of the preceding quotations in the indicated sentence.

 

Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top

ya but THIS is SPARTA! is a quote. So where'e the quotes? Oh crap, do I quote that?

X(

and that scared me when he said that so scare quotes around regular quotes?  :P

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Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top

I'm really going to have to start using quotes much more often. :andrew:

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Sinperium, reply 32
I'm really going to have to start using quotes much more often.
End of Sinperium's quote

Yes, that you are....;p

and myfist0 ....the issue was with erroneous mis-representation of something I specifically said [and NOT an issue of "scare quote"], and it's not a good survival trait to misquote an Admin....;)

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 18
let Jafo interpret his verbal shorthand... 
End of DrJBHL's quote

Forgot to add, 'and pay close attention to what he explains.', explicitly.

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sorry, Doc....kinda 'hacked' your thread a tad ....;)