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Google coder behind Street View data breach named

Graham Cluley — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:57:10 +0000

The New York Times claims to have uncovered the identity of the Google software engineer who wrote the code used by Street View cars when they controversially scooped up private Wi-Fi data including emails, text messages, browsing histories and passwords.

FBI Used Children to Force LulzSec’s Leader to Turn On His Own

Charles — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:45:11 +0000

In an article posted on FoxNews.com witnesses report that FBI agents used Hector Xavier Monsegur’s children are “leverage”. Forcing the unemployed father of two to turn on his own.

The suspected ringleader of the Anonymous offshoot group LulzSec, Hector Xavier Monsegur and his web minions had just completed a month-long reign of terror, hacking the CIA, Fox, Sony and several financial institutions, causing, according to some estimates, billions of dollars in damage around the world.

“It was because of his kids,” one of the two agents recalled. “He’d do anything for his kids. He didn’t want to go away to prison and leave them. That’s how we got him.”

FBI Says Companies Aren’t Taking Hacktavist Gropus Like Anonymous Seriously Enough.

Charles — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:55:27 +0000

Businesses are not taking Anonymous and hacktivism seriously enough, according to an FBI special agent.

The youth of alleged Anonymous hackers, who are often teenagers or in their early twenties, has lead a number of businesses to dismiss the hacking group without taking into account the ramifications of a successful hack, FBI cyber-investigator Eric Strom told the RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco on Wednesday.

The Hacker Group Anonymous Declares War on the U.S Government.

Charles — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:38:37 +0000

In a YouTube post on Sunday, The hacker group Anonymous calls for a new American Revolution in what it has named ”Project V”. The group’s long standing and public opposition to Govermoment acts such as SOPA and the upcoming “Cyber Security Act” have placed many of its members in a position to speak directly to unhappy and uneasy Americans. Whlie a new American revolution may seem far fetched, many other governments around the world, including the U.S., have been placed in similar situations only to be replaced in fierce uproar.

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” – Abraham Lincoln

Millions Of Stolen Emails Released From Geopolitical Intelligence Firm Stratfor

Charles — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:47:18 +0000

Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has gone public with emails stolen from a US-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA.

FaceBook Caught Accessing More Than Just Your Status Update

Charles — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:43:42 +0000

LONDON – Internet giant Facebook is accessing smartphone users’ personal text messages, an investigation revealed Sunday.

Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging to smartphone users who downloaded the social-networking app and said that it was accessing the data as part of a trial to launch its own messaging service, The (London) Sunday Times reported.

Android Smartphones Users are Losing Control

Charles — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:30:23 +0000

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a flaw in a component of the operating system of Google Inc‘s (GOOG.O) widely used Android smartphone that they say hackers can exploit to gain control of the devices.

Hacking is a State of Mind

Charles — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:27:28 +0000

Josh Klein is an “ethical hacker,” whose greatest joy is derived from combining the unexpected and coming up with better and even more unexpected results.

The Hacker Manifesto

Charles — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:09:41 +0000

Originally Published in Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10
January 8, 1986

Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager
Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”…
Damn kids. They’re all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950’s technobrain,
ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what
made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world…
Mine is a world that begins with school… I’m smarter than most of
the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me…
Damn underachiever. They’re all alike.

I’m in junior high or high school. I’ve listened to teachers explain
for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. “No, Ms.
Smith, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head…”
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is
cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it’s because I
screwed it up. Not because it doesn’t like me…
Or feels threatened by me…
Or thinks I’m a smart ass…
Or doesn’t like teaching and shouldn’t be here…
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike.

And then it happened… a door opened to a world… rushing through
the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic pulse is
sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought… a board is
found.
“This is it… this is where I belong…”
I know everyone here… even if I’ve never met them, never talked to
them, may never hear from them again… I know you all…
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They’re all alike…

You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at
school when we hungered for steak… the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We’ve been dominated by sadists, or
ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,
but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.

+++The Mentor+++