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Anonymous and LulzSec, "Hello thar FBI," NATO servers breached

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  1. Rick TechSpot Staff Posts: 6,284   +41

    Amidst a flurry of recent press, self-proclaimed hacktivist group, "Anonymous," claims to have acquired 1GB of data after compromising NATO servers via a "simple injection" technique. 

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  2. rajmond Newcomer, in training Posts: 45

    I like them.
  3. Trillionsin TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 895   +11

    Keep it up and everyone join in. woot
  4. TeamworkGuy2 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 195

    I don't know, I still don't understand what their ultimate goal is.
    Are they trying to take over the internet? be the next socialist society? get news coverage and look cool?
    I honestly don't know, and until I do, I probably won't side with them.
    What do you think?
  5. TomSEA TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 1,995   +162

    I think they're a bunch of pin-headed, socially dysfunctional script kiddies whose Mama didn't them the attention they thought they deserved.
  6. gwailo247 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 2,105   +18

    Words of wisdom from times of yore:

    "I fought the law and the law won."
     
  7. ragreeen2646 Newcomer, in training

    We have to be concerned about this, we can already start to see the hand of government getting involved.
    This hacking will force governments and big businesses to increase measures that will ultimately decrease our privacy and freedom on the Internet.
    When freedom becomes license to do what ever suits your fancy, repression will follow.
  8. Butch TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 110

    Anyone who likes or support these guys is about as sharp as a bag of wet hair...
  9. Xothos Newcomer, in training

    What most of you sheeple do not understand is that the government and corporations have already taken most of your freedoms away. How many more bylaws and amendments to the constitutions and charters out there made by *****s in parliment or the senate do you want??? I hope these guys bring the arrogant governments and corporations to their knees, because it's YOUR money they are spending to take away your rights and freedoms. Have fun being imprisioned within your own life. Go Anonymous, and Go Lulzsec, because if someone doesn't stop these ppl soon we'll all be in a martial law-type life.

    X
  10. gwailo247 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 2,105   +18

    You're 100% correct. Their actions WILL bring about more restrictions and more internet laws. To the point that some people believe that Anon and LS are false flags by the US Gov't to bring about that very thing.

    The fact that these groups are doing NOTHING USEFUL to end this corruption that you speak of makes our inevitable loss of freedoms due to their actions even more irritating. If they at least did something more useful than stealing e-mail addresses and DDoS'ing useless web pages then at least it might be worth it.

    If they at least brought some politician or corporation down, then I would see their actions as having some use. All they are doing is proving to a lot of people that when you combine stupid children along with unrestricted internet access, that regular citizens private information is at risk. These aren't hackers, these are vandals with a modicum of "skillz". If they were real hackers, they would actually get valuable data. You know, the secret hidden **** that brings down governments, not usernames on Sony.
  11. edison5do Newcomer, in training Posts: 239

    I like them, but they will be dead if they keep doing these stuff... LAW rules and you can take up all by your self
  12. w3b0n Newcomer, in training Posts: 38

    what if its done in purpose to justify new coming sensation: iBig Brother
  13. yRaz TechSpot Booster Posts: 728   +29

    That is a very good point, I just stopped being a supporter. I use to think what they were doing was cool but when you put it like that it puts in perspective how silly and useless what they're doing really is.
  14. Xothos Newcomer, in training

    I see it as the start of an avalanche...right now it's just a snowball, but I'm hoping Anon and Lulz give it a big push.
  15. Xothos Newcomer, in training

    Maybe they should team up with WikiLeaks?
  16. Richy2k9 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 513

    hello ...

    "oh la la ... "

    It's too late now, am-i bad if i feel pity for them !?

    expect:

    - new laws
    - new sanctions
    - new crisis

    & more work for me :S

    cheers!
  17. Vrmithrax TechSpot Paladin Posts: 1,085   +99

    I find it amazingly ironic that these 2 groups of bored (and obviously gifted) hackers are taking aim at governments and corporations as their enemies... Yet they are using methods and tools that would not even exist if not for governments and corporations.

    They are obstinately vague in the definition of their targets and motives. Now, calling out your targets specifically is usually not a good idea when engaged in subterfuge, so I can forgive that one. But, seriously, try giving us a real reason, not just the paranoia-filled "they are the enemy" shtick we hear time after time. And, since when did Lulzsec go from being a group bored doing it for fun to hacktivists issuing agendas and statements?

    Ah, but they do have one positive - every time they hack a system, they force their targets to work harder on security. I just hope ragreeen2646 isn't right, and their efforts don't end up causing a series of knee-jerk reactions that make the government and corporations clamp down even harder on the general public freedoms.
  18. Eddo22 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 108

    I agree with them, however 2 wrongs don't make a right.
  19. Benny26 TechSpot Paladin Posts: 1,528   +37

    They're wasting their time...They won't achieve anything except upgrade NATO's security system, and who ever else's system they decide to target.

    Just jack it and get out more.
  20. Wendig0 TechSpot Paladin Posts: 1,006   +51

    Couldn't have said it better myself.