Security Firm CEO Quits Due to Anonymous Attack

[shadowmagus]

It should be no secret right now that Anonymous is bringing it's own brand of justice to the world, and I would not want to be the guy who tried. Regardless of what you think, Wikileaks has one very potent watch dog, as this man has learned.

BTW Mr. Barr, there is no "upper echelon", next time know your opponent before running your mouth.

 

[Aptspire]

Why do these nonInternets NEVER get it? if you try to strike at Anonymus, they'll get you right back

 

[LCP]

Yeah anonymous is going to ruin internet anonymity for everyone. Bunch of good for nothings, this guy didn't deserve it. They are sticking their noses too far into big shit. Wikileaks is not a good thing, if you don't realize that then you've got bigger problems.

 

[LCP]

Yeah anonymous is going to ruin internet anonymity for everyone. Bunch of good for nothings, this guy didn't deserve it. They are sticking their noses too far into big shit. Wikileaks is not a good thing, if you don't realize that then you've got bigger problems.

You explain why Wikileaks is not a good thing, because noone so far who took up your position could, and then we'll try figuring out who's got the problem here.

Clarity in a government is a good thing, People believing everything on a random site that one man who is quoted saying that he wants to hurt the U.S is not. He could end up with the power to make up things just to ruin someone's reputation. Releasing Sensitive information to the mass media is NOT a good thing, people have the right to know everything important, but not the right to know everything, specially when it concerns diplomatic conversations. I find most supporters unhappy self-entitled people, and if they hate their country so much, should move out. More space for immigrants, like me.

 

[Croaker42]

"I need to focus on taking care of my family and rebuilding my reputation,"

Did the Colbert Report also show an email that Anonymous uncovered where his wife threatened to file for divorce?

This man is waging war on all fronts...

Some men just want to watch the world burn?

OT:
Its not surprising he "resigned" what was done to that security firm was embarasing.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Hold it. "upper echelon of Anonymous' management"? They don't have management, upper echelons or anything that even resembles organization to the best of my knowledge. I mean... isn't that the whole GD point?

Yes it is the whole point and I love that Anon is now so relevant even the Colbert Report talks about them. We are in the age of Anon.

No, we're in the age of cyber terrorism. A while back on the news here in the UK there was a report by some official, might have been a military type guy, saying how cyber terrorism is the next big thing we all need to watch out for, because there's not much you can do to stop it. Anonymous might be an idealistic group of 'radicals', but just wait until the real radicals and terrorists start using cyberspace for major operations and sabotage. Anonymous is just a sign of the times; you don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

And when that time comes, which side will Anon fight on? Terrorism or freedom? I'd like to think that Anon would be trolling the terrorists, in the name of ... justice ... and freedom ... and 'for the lulz'.

 

[ReiverCorrupter]

Hold it. "upper echelon of Anonymous' management"? They don't have management, upper echelons or anything that even resembles organization to the best of my knowledge. I mean... isn't that the whole GD point?

Yes it is the whole point and I love that Anon is now so relevant even the Colbert Report talks about them. We are in the age of Anon.

No, we're in the age of cyber terrorism. A while back on the news here in the UK there was a report by some official, might have been a military type guy, saying how cyber terrorism is the next big thing we all need to watch out for, because there's not much you can do to stop it. Anonymous might be an idealistic group of 'radicals', but just wait until the real radicals and terrorists start using cyberspace for major operations and sabotage. Anonymous is just a sign of the times; you don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Dude, do you really think this is somehow a new issue? We deal with cyber-terrorist attacks every hour of every day. It's one of the main things the NSA deals with. The thing is that we don't hear about it because the terrorists aren't from the middle east, they're from Russia and China, and it would spoil our relations with them. Not to say that we don't do it too. There's basically still a cold war, it's just on the internet.

But as far as Islamic cyber-terrorists go, don't worry. They're completely incompetent, plus you can't do that much over the internet; only gather information. Information that is usually useless to Islamic extremists because they don't have the industrial complex to do anything about our technology, and if they release sensitive information, everyone will just say that they made it up.

 

[LCP]

Haakong there's no way the released emails were fabricated. They were released immediately. It would take a team of 50 two months to analyze 10,000 emails and plausibly inject false messages into the record.

LCP You are arguing against yourself. Unless it is your contention that the govenrments and corporations that are trying so hard to vilify wikileaks never lie the leaking of "sensitive" information becomes an essential service. It is not wiki's job to pick and choose what information to post, merely to provide a venue for whistle blowers. They do not have either the resources nor the competancy to edit what they publish. I agree that the diplomatic messages that initially earned wikileaks ire should never have been released, but wikileaks didn't do anything wrong. These documents were released by a traitor in the US military. If wikileaks wasn't there they could have been released on filestube, scribd, fileknow, or any of a hundred other file sharing sites. Blaming wikileaks for the release of "sensitive" documents is just stupid. It's like blaming a rooster for the sun coming up.

Are you saying that somehow wikilieaks hasn't made the problem of leaked documents worse? call me stubborn but i refuse to believe everything that is posted on the internet.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

I wonder if he is just being thrown under the bus for this to save face for the company. Easier to blame everything on one guy, but I would be highly surprised if the whole list of shenanigans this guy did didn't involve other people at the company.

It didn't. They all thought he was an insane idiot. His coder refused half of the things he told him to do. Plus, according to anon, 5 people were all that were involved with taking their site down. The one that used social engineering on the admin to get everything done? A 16 year old girl.

Ah thanks for clearing it up. Then he is just an idiot.

 

[ChristovR]

He was trying to bring down wikileaks and anonymous I consider that pretty damn moral.

Agreed.
Anonymous runs itself as a faceless organization, with absolutely no accountability to anyone for any of it's actions.

 

[Branches]

You know that sound a dynamite plunger makes in all those old TV and Cartoon Shows?

This is what happens in the milliseconds later.

 

[Logic 0]

The biggest mistake this guy made was messing with one of the strongest organizations on earth.

 

[teknoarcanist]

There's no 'anonymous management'. There's just those who initiate specific actions.

 

[Dastardly]

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Man, some of you people amaze me.

Yeah, it appears as though this company was doing things that weren't quite "on the level." Not illegal, but likely not ethical.

But this guy? He's a real person with a face and a family. And a bunch of online fucks messed up his life, while the rest of you cheer. He's not some video game boss downed with cunning raid strategy. He's a real person, and they really fucked up his very real shit.

All for what? So they can keep hiding their real faces so that they don't have to face the consequences of the actually illegal and unethical shit they've pulled?

Oh, he wears a suit. Oh, his paycheck is bigger than ours. So that means it's okay to hate him--he's the big bad enemy.

READ CAREFULLY: I'm not all that upset about them revealing the company e-mails that implicate the company in shady dealings. I still despise the methods Anonymous uses and the cowardice they embody, but at least in this sense they were attacking a company and discrediting the information that company spreads. Hell, even Barr was only going to professionally discredit his target, allegedly.

But then they went after a man's personal life. Not his professional one. And yet people cheer like this is some kind of idealistic victory for the "little guy?" Seriously, some of you need to get over your "Internet Batman Fanfiction" erection.