70 Law Enforcement Sites Hacked

Published on August 6, 2011 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

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.

Comments (Page 2)

Scoutdog

on Aug 07, 2011

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".

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.

seanw3

on Aug 07, 2011

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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Disturbedcomputer

on Aug 07, 2011

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?

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

Jafo

on Aug 07, 2011

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.

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.

DrJBHL

on Aug 07, 2011

Luckmann

reply 10

Woho, that's awesome.

Quoting LightStar, reply 9Nothing justifies illegally hacking into another computer systemNothing?

Correct. Nothing.

Scoutdog

on Aug 07, 2011

Jafo

reply 19

So they say.

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.

DrJBHL

on Aug 07, 2011

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.

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

Scoutdog

on Aug 07, 2011

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...

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!

DrJBHL

on Aug 07, 2011

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

Jafo

on Aug 07, 2011

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.

Who says I'm sentient?

I'll have his balls....

DrJBHL

on Aug 07, 2011

Scoutdog

reply 23

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... 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!

Rene Descartes went into his favorite bar and the bar tender asked, "Would you like your usual drink, Monsieur Descartes?"

Descartes replied, "I think not" and promptly disappeared.

Jafo

on Aug 07, 2011

LOL

Cruxador

on Aug 08, 2011

Just anti-establishment idealists, exercising their assumed right to bear virtual arms.

DrJBHL

reply 11

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."

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.

These hackers will not be sitting on the prosecution for the people in question. The actual prosecution will be obtaining data that is freely available. Note that data from cablegate was considered admissible in court.

LightStar

reply 9

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".

That's not really how they operate. Idealists, remember? It gets released, full and unaltered.

Sinperium

on Aug 08, 2011

They will NEVER hack Area 51--the Illuminati will never allow it!

Disturbedcomputer

on Aug 08, 2011

Sinperium

reply 29

They will NEVER hack Area 51--the Illuminati will never allow it!

ok so, they need to hack Illuminati then area 51 style

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