FBI-related site Hacked

[das]

If their intent was actually to help the companies - fine. But I think it's pretty clear from the quotes that they're doing it for stupid "look at what we can do and get away with" reasons. It doesn't seem like they're trying to help anyone. They just want to show off and piss people off.

 

 

It's a double edge sword. While I feel it's unfair to the home users of Sonypictures who got leaked, Sony has now been publicly shown the errors of it's ways to where it cannot hide from the public. Doing this forces change whereas private would possibly cause feet dragon.

 

Messing with the government is domestic terrorism though and i feel is a dishonor to your country to publicly expose them like they have done

[Alg]

What's with all the negative responses on this thread? When did [bleep]ing with the government become something to be shunned? [bleep] the pigs :thumbsup:

Until they decide to strike back and get rid of anonymity and internet freedoms for everyone. See: The Post-9/11 world.

[Rien]

What's with all the negative responses on this thread? When did [bleep]ing with the government become something to be shunned? [bleep] the pigs :thumbsup:

Because it ultimately threatens net neutrality. Hacking into government-affiliated sites for [cabbage]s and giggles gives politicians more of a reason to consider cracking down and implementing stricter Internet regulations.

 

 

EDIT: Beat to it by Mask, heh.

Edited June 5, 2011 by Rien

[TrueBeaver]

I'd like to see them locked up. They clearly weren't doing it for any beneficial purpose, they were doing it to prove a point.

 

My views have been said many times throughout this thread.

[marcustullius]

So I guess Sony hasn't learned yet? Got hacked for the 13th time:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/04/sony-europe-hacked-by-lebanese-hacker-again/

 

1. Anonymous/DDoS

2. PSN(77 Mil)

3. SOE (25 Mil)

4. SOE 12,700 "old database from 2007"

5. PSN password reset hacks/flaws

6. Sony Music Indonesia

7. 2500 Sweepstakes records from 2001

8. SO-Net

9. Sony Music Greece

10. Sony Music Japan

11. Sony Ericsson Canada

12. Sony Pictures

13. Sony Europe

[Nomrombom]

Well, I don't think they should execute it exactly as they do, but they seem to want to help raise awareness a little bit. I bet you if I had enough time/energy to attempt to get into every account on Tip it using the password "password" I could get over 50 accounts.

 

People need to realize that it's a real threat. Having your password guessed in a matter of seconds is pathetic. I use 12+ characters for everyday passwords and I have a password 30 characters long for a more secure area. http://www.passwordmeter.com/ is a fairly good site for checking password strength. Anything less than good is not secure and should not be expected to stand up to a brute force attack.

[Boris5000]

For anyone who cares: http://www.vg247.com/2011/06/21/lulzsec-suspect-arrested-by-scotland-yard/

[aspeeder]

Messing with the government is domestic terrorism though and i feel is a dishonor to your country to publicly expose them like they have done

To me calling something like this domestic terrorism is just the government putting a spin in current events. How does this inspire fear in the populous? The only way I'd see it doing that is showing how vulnerable some of our cyber systems are, which they already were to begin with, and now the government might actually improve the security/personnel from all the negative press.

[The Observer]

Sure encouraging them to improve their security is fine, but outright hacking and doing it because they can get away with it is just crying to governments to remove anonymity completely from the Internet.

[Nomrombom]

Sure encouraging them to improve their security is fine, but outright hacking and doing it because they can get away with it is just crying to governments to remove anonymity completely from the Internet.

 

How will that work? You can just use sites under other countries jurisdictions. Or mirrors.

[The Observer]

Sure encouraging them to improve their security is fine, but outright hacking and doing it because they can get away with it is just crying to governments to remove anonymity completely from the Internet.

 

How will that work? You can just use sites under other countries jurisdictions. Or mirrors.

 

Still shouldn't be encouraging them to do so.

[aspeeder]

Sure encouraging them to improve their security is fine, but outright hacking and doing it because they can get away with it is just crying to governments to remove anonymity completely from the Internet.

 

How will that work? You can just use sites under other countries jurisdictions. Or mirrors.

Exactly, the legislation would have little effect on those who'd actually be able to hack them and only inconvenience those who aren't as technologically capable.

[Nomrombom]

Brings to mind the case where the US government tried to take down Demonoid, and Demonoid just said [bleep] off because it's Swedish or Swiss or something. Was lulzy.

[The Observer]

If you look at things like Tor it's slow as hell due to the amount of people using them.