[liberationtech] The People vs. Professional Hackers

[liberationtech at lewman.us]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:17:25PM -0800, dderiso at ucsd.edu wrote 2.9K bytes in 79 lines about:
: I wanted to know what you think about the whole HBGary thing? Calling their
: work “proactive tactics,” this company will do everything from stalk your
: children to coding viruses and planting them on your computer. Are we
: equipped to deal with this legally? Should they be allowed to get business
: licenses?
: 
: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/the-ridiculous-plan-to-attack-wikileaks.ars

I think this is a better side of the story,
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars

Powerpoint is easy, security is hard.  "Stalking" people who share
everything on Facebook and Twitter is just comical.

-- 
Andrew
pgp key: 0x74ED336B