Two LulzSec Members Plead Guilty To DDOS Attacks
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80Maxwell08 said:
I'm totally with them if they want to do that. You can't invite them to do something then hide behind "Aspergers" when it suits. Do the crime, do the time, etc.
Ok Ill elaborate this one.LastGreatBlasphemer said:
Yes it costs money to keep a website up and running, but a company like sony runs their own independent servers, so they are not going to charge themselves more to run their own servers just because of failing to meet traffic spikes. Sonys servers cost them the same to own/operate if they are up and running at 100% capacity or completely offline. So being overran by LOIC zombies has no actual bearing financially.
Beyond that... Despite how people think, the internet is not a physical place. Trying to apply logic of the physical world does not always work in the digital. The issue is far more complex than protesters and picket lines, or stay off my lawn. Thats why you cant simply apply physical world charges to the realm of the digital because it is not the same thing.
If we need anything, what we need is something to put a stop to the shenanigans that prompted the formation of lulzsec. Lulzsec didnt just form literally just for the lulz. It formed as a direct consequence of Sony's actions. You treat the cause, not the effect and most of what prompted lulzsec to do what they did all circles back to what Sony tried to pull with the PS3 jailbreak and their detailed chorus line of sphincterocity that followed. Had Sony not been allowed to continue litigation and laughed out of court like the should have been given the already recently concluded jailbreaking precedent, you would have never seen lulzsec at all.
On the rest of the dissection, youve stated your opinion, ive stated mine, it would be repetitive to continue to speak on it.
And the lesson of the day is "Don't dare someone to kick you in the ass while you're shitting on their lawn", kids. Of all the sad and groan-worthy things announced as news on this site (just like the real world!), egging the police on to arrest you while you're being accused of doing something illegal is one of the most Darwin Award-worthy of late.
At least the smartass got what he asked for, so there's some good to be had here.
At least the smartass got what he asked for, so there's some good to be had here.
A DDOS is a distributed denial of service. Basically it's like visiting the escapist on some wednesdays - there are a lot more computers requesting to download zero punctuation than the server can handle, so it can only fulfill some of those requests, meaning not everyone can access the site. When a hacker group DDOSes, they generally rent a botnet of computers with malware on them, and access the same page several thousands times every second. The idea is to flood the server with requests so fast that it can't tell which ones are genuine.Eveonline100 said:
Compared to something like an XSS vulnerability or an vulnerable version of apache (server software), where you would probably have to write your own code and take a lot of things into consideration before hacking a site, a DDOS is the equivalent of pressing a big red button and then going to twitter to shout about how 1337 you are. It doesn't have any long-term effects but loses revenue for sites & is annoying as hell for the people in charge of the computers.
Hang on. One or more of these LulzSec brats are Aspies?
Suddenly this all makes so much more sense now! *has Aspergers too*
Suddenly this all makes so much more sense now! *has Aspergers too*
As someone with PDD-NOS, I don't approve of this phrasing. No one with Autism, Asperger's, or PDD-NOS suffers from it. There are problems that arise, but they can all be worked around to an extent. Any suffering only comes from frustrations that derive from not having found a way to work around the disability, not the disability itself.Grey Carter said:
Besides, mentioning that he has Asperger's added nothing to the article. It seems more like an attempt to keep the readers interested by mentioning a strange! and bizarre! disability. It makes me think of the same mentality that led to the saying, "If it bleeds, it leads."
I think this is the single most gratifying thing I have read on the internet in YEARS!Grey Carter said:
Under UK employment law and contract law, you cannot be fired for refusing to carry out illegal actions and they cant make you sign a contract that breaks the law, and if it does (this bit I'm not sure about so bear with me) those parts that are illegal you aren't obliged to carry out.Dags90 said:
I'm presuming the US has similar laws
Ethical hacking is a completely legitimate way of hardening a system against attack. I used it at my last position to harden our systems as we were increasingly seeing anomalous contacts from China.GiglameshSoulEater said:
As for credit card details being stolen, blame the folks holding those details originally - they're the ones with a responsibility to secure those details. That means NOT storing them unencrypted.