Comments on: Lulzsec scalps CIA

By: rtresco

rtresco — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“They’ve definitely got the internet paying attention.”

The internets are as vast and varied as the real world. I wouldn’t call a bunch of hacking armchair quarterbacks “the internet”.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eventually, the CIA even found Osama bin Laden

You just made me spit out my drink and laugh. Thank you for this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

try the so-called ‘fed’eral ‘reserve’ next time – not that cia.gov wasn’t worth the time, but…just sayin’

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

…and it’s down.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And I remember thinking Tor was safe, LOL. But then again – it was called “phreaking” when I started. Sorry, no 1337 speak, it just never took with me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

THis will not end well.

By: MrJM

MrJM — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Q: Why were our civil liberties on the internet restricted in a dramatic overreaction?

A: For the lulz.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Quadrapodacone has been attacking them on twitter. This is most likely a response to this exchange:

@LulzSec:
Everyone please keep looking at @Quadrapodacone for he, being high and mighty, can no doubt take down any website in existence. Waiting.

@Quadrapodacone:
@LulzSec I have no want or need…Here’s a challange… fbi.gov or cia.gov try changing some text or something :P

The challenge was to change the site, not to take it down.

By: voiceinthedistance

voiceinthedistance — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Those kids are starting to really take it up a notch or two, now that high school is out for the summer and they have more time on their hands.

By: Jackasimov

Jackasimov — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I can’t verify. Having a heck of a time connecting.

By: Urthen

Urthen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not responding as of this comment. That gives me an idea, though… If a target is too big, but has inadequate infrastructure, just announce an attack has been made… everyone hammering it to see will take the site down itself!

By: grimc

grimc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Too true.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think this kind of highlights the difference between people who see THE INTERNET, OUR MAGICAL COMPUTER SAVIOUR FROM WHICH ALL CREATIVITY SPRINGS AND WHICH IS AS IMPORTANT AS OUR VERY BLOOD OH HOW WE SHALL REVEL IN THESE GLORIOUS LULZ and people it as just another tool (most of the world) who are mostly just going to get pissed when you stop them getting to Amazon or whatever.

Just for fun, let’s turn this into a conversation about sheeple

By: ultranaut

ultranaut — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Some people get their lulz being asphyxiated too…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Script Kiddie’s ATTACK!!!!

By: triscuit

triscuit — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yep- too much traffic. Idiot that I am, I went to check it out. I got on the site, but it was slow, and seemed that the graphics were missing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not an exploit, just a [D?]DOS, but amusing nonetheless.

By: Diodeus

Diodeus — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

OMG! They’re still using TABLES! Only the brightest and the best.

By: Pip_R_Lagenta

Pip_R_Lagenta — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It is also important to understand that the CIA [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] or for any American who wants to live in a free country, at least.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Iâ€™m starting to think this was all a social engineering ploy to get the entire world to slam the CIAâ€™s website.

Why hack when you can just say, â€œGo here!â€ and create a human invoked DDoS condition.

By: Tuff Luke

Tuff Luke — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

if that were the case, then, in a roundabout way, they kinda DID take it down…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Talk about a misnomer

http://1.usa.gov/62hgHR

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s up, as of ten minutes ago, with no sign of disturbance.

By: Enormo

Enormo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I tried to follow the link but the site was down. What gives?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Millions of others were just prompted to do the same thing, in order to crash the site. Mission accomplished…Sigh.

By: Modern Jess

Modern Jess — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You know, tables get a bad rap. One can spend days tweaking css to get a nice liquid layout. Or they can just use a table and move on with their life. I’m not anti-CSS, either. I just believe in using the right tool for the job, instead of knee-jerk snootiness.

By: Wickedashtray

Wickedashtray — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The lulzboat strikes again.

Sorry but I find it hilarious that a bunch of smart-assed teens can play with high level, government run shit like a cat with a yarn ball.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Which civil liberties would those be?

By: MrJM

MrJM — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

shit like a cat with a yarn ball

And thus was a new defecation idiom born.

By: MrJM

MrJM — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Silly Bubba — Any specifics regarding the restriction of your civil liberties is strictly classified.