Two LulzSec Members Plead Guilty To DDOS Attacks

[Dags90]

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.

I'm presuming the US has similar laws

I'm not sure what that's referring to. I was specifically referring to the fact that, under U.S. law, a lawyer is obligated to put forth the best defense possible. I'm assuming the UK has similar protections.

 

[BlueMage]

Well, at least America haven't actually nicked these (like that innocent guy a while back), and let us handle them.

Why do all the hackers I read about end up being British? Does this country have some sort of hacker-child training programme or what?

Well, I have seen a university course for 'ethical' hacking. No joke.

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.

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.

 

[BlueMage]

I can't get rid of the ADD (and I don't want to). I'm not going to get better, I can modify my behavior to make someone else more comfortable, but it's not some segmented separate part of my personality.

Nor should we - it's part of what makes us excellent multi-taskers and lateral problem-solvers - we operate on multiple levels simultaneously.

 

[BlueMage]

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.

And remember, if a thief smashes your car window and rips out your radio, it's your fault for not having stronger windows.

Especially if I'm stupid enough to also leave the car unlocked or not have other anti-theft measures in place.

 

[Gilhelmi]

The real story is that governments and major corporations somehow managed to get embarrassed by these kids. No, FBI, the fact that your people used the same passwords for their .gov accounts and their favorite porn sites doesn't make the people who exploited this "skilled hackers."

Reminds me a bit of this (http://xkcd.com/932/) xkcd strip.

As for the common passwords thing, I don't understand why that's embarrassing for them. I could've told you that a bunch of them are computer inept enough to do that well before it was comfirmed. It just goes without saying really.

I mean, it wont be until today's twenty somethings get into the higher echelons of the FBI. Then the passwords will be "better". Lets face it though, How many of us are guilty of using the same password for everything and then putting sticky notes up for the ones that force us to use sophisticated passwords.

Humans will always be the weakest link in network security.

 

[Antari]

"Cleary is a skilled hacker. He controlled his own botnet, employed sophisticated methods and his broad geographic scope affected a large number of businesses and individuals," an FBI spokesperson told Reuters back in June.

And he'll be working for them within the year. Cyber warfare is the new front lines, having a skilled soldier is more important than an arrest statistic.