Archive for January, 2008
Amateurs at work
The amateurs have come out to play and are making a general mess of things. No worries, just more background noise for the professionals to hide their tracks in…
Anti-Scientology agitators have repeatedly harassed and threatened violence against a 59-year-old PG&E worker and his wife, who they mistakenly flagged as pro-Scientology hackers.
John Lawson, who lives [...]
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29Jan2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Have an account on MySpace? Get accused of linking to porn!
I feel sorry for this poor sap, but even sorry for the retards that are running that school. I challenge anyone to create a MySpace account and link to 100 friends and then NOT be indirectly link to some sort of porn site. This story borders on absurd.
In the goofiest waste of law enforcement [...]
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26Jan2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Another massive attack, another teen culprit
There was a lot of press coverage relating to alleged Russian attacks against Estonia and there were even accusations that the Russians had hired black market botnets to engage in the attack. Wrong again it looks like! The only thing this story is missing is an elaborate code name to describe it….maybe SOLAR SUNSET?
A 20-year-old [...]
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25Jan2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Hackers versus Tom Cruise
Cue the Mission Impossible theme one more time…
“A loose confederation of online troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous have declared war on the Church of Scientology by flooding its servers with fake data requests, describing the attacks as punishment for the Church’s alleged abuse of copyright laws and alleged brainwashing of its members.
Anonymous congregates on the [...]
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23Jan2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Your data is giving you radiation poisoning
Cory Doctorow is usually one to decry the use of fear, uncertainty, and doubt in articles is spinning plenty of it when it serves to support one of his pet issues. The privacy of personal data is certainly going to be an issue that defines our generation over the coming years, however, to [...]
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21Jan2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Beware of the Bear!
This is a moderately interesting article that discusses a big issue. It is almost impossible today to engage in commerce without revealing some sort of personal information and corporations are setting an early expectation with young children that giving out personal information is okay. Even something as seemingly harmless as building [...]
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21Jan2008 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Its sad when a business that has the potential to be admired thru out the world as being there for ...