Ramblings of an old Doc
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.


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on Aug 08, 2011

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

 

I seriously doubt that. If they were true Idealists, then they would not be hacking computer systems in the first place as it is an illegal activity, and illegal activities should go against their "ideals".  It makes them no better than anyone else that performs an illegal action.

on Aug 08, 2011

LightStar
If they were true Idealists, then they would not be hacking computer systems in the first place as it is an illegal activity, and illegal activities should go against their "ideals". It makes them no better than anyone else that performs an illegal action.

Ah... but the "true believer" can rationalize anything he or she does since "The end justifies the means."

This has been the core of so many acts of savagery that it boggles the mind. The incredible ego which truly believes "I can win!" yet never does.

on Aug 08, 2011

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

These hackers are far from violent but are just illegal. In their minds it is a revolt or revolution.

on Aug 08, 2011

myfist0
These hackers are far from violent but are just illegal. In their minds it is a revolt or revolution.

The little dweebs are pathetic criminals....

A Glasgow kiss would improve them.

on Aug 08, 2011

myfist0
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

These hackers are far from violent but are just illegal. In their minds it is a revolt or revolution.

What are you? Psychic? I was just going to post that same quote! JFK talking about to much government intrusion.

 

"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
~ Mark Twain ~

Not suggesting these guys are patriots...but then again...they could be if they went about things differently.

on Aug 08, 2011

WebGizmos
Not suggesting these guys are patriots...but then again...they could be if they went about things differently.

They could even be worthwhile human beings....if they were composted.

on Aug 08, 2011

 

..... sorry, Giz. But that was too damned funny. 

Now finish the modules, slacker! 

on Aug 08, 2011

LightStar

Quoting Cruxador, reply 28That's not really how they operate. Idealists, remember? It gets released, full and unaltered.

 

I seriously doubt that. If they were true Idealists, then they would not be hacking computer systems in the first place as it is an illegal activity, and illegal activities should go against their "ideals".  It makes them no better than anyone else that performs an illegal action.
That doesn't go against their ideals. It goes against your ideals, because your ideals don't align with theirs. They're populists, and they don't believe that moral right is defined by law.

on Aug 08, 2011

Cruxador
and they don't believe that moral right is defined by law.

 

Then "they" are wrong.

on Aug 08, 2011

LightStar
Then "they" are wrong.
No, they're actually right. Laws can most definitely be wrong. Does that give us a right to break them willy-nilly? No. But legal authority is far from omniscient.

on Aug 08, 2011

Video taping police is becoming illegal in parts of the US and UK. So what happens when it is illegal to tape a cop beating a guy to death? Would that tape be inadmissible in court? Is that a moral law or just a law meant to protect well dressed thugs?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/12/photographers-anti-terror-laws

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/1644048/jail-photographing-police

 

Cops Beat Man For Taking Out A Camera After Witnessing Bogus Traffic Stop

 

 

on Aug 08, 2011

myfist0
Video taping police is becoming illegal in parts of the US and UK. So what happens when it is illegal to tape a cop beating a guy to death? Would that tape be inadmissible in court? Is that a moral law or just a law meant to protect well dressed thugs?

 

myfist0
just a law meant to protect well dressed thugs?

 

on Aug 08, 2011

I can see why they would want to do this: it protects police from being identified specifically by friends of perps so that they don't have to worry about retribution. Doesn't mean it's a good law, though. The problem of court inadmissibility is huge. Would it not be simpler to buy cops some kind of cool-looking, face-concealing visor?

on Aug 08, 2011

Scoutdog
Would it not be simpler to buy cops some kind of cool-looking, face-concealing visor?

Hehe, I have a suggestion.

on Aug 10, 2011

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

Sorry Doc, yes it  can.  As long as the law can show that the perpetrators were not in the employ or under the influence of any government agency, it can be used to nail crooks.  That is why blackmail is so successful.

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