Hackers claim to breach NATO security
July 21, 2011 By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD , Associated Press
A group of computer hackers on Thursday claimed to have breached NATO security and accessed hoards of restricted material.
The group called Anonymous said it would be "irresponsible" to publish most of the material it stole from NATO but that it is sitting on about 1 gigabyte of data.
Anonymous posted a PDF file on its Twitter page showing what appeared to be a document headed "NATO Restricted" and dated Aug. 27, 2007.
"Hi NATO," the group teased on Twitter. "Yes, we haz more of your delicious data," hinting that more would be released in the next few days.
A NATO official, who could not be named under standing rules, said the organization was aware that a hacker group had released what it claimed to be classified NATO documents on the Internet.
"NATO security experts are investigating these claims," the official said. "We strongly condemn any leak of classified documents, which can potentially endanger the security of NATO allies, armed forces and citizens."
Anonymous is a loosely organized group of hackers sympathetic to WikiLeaks. It has claimed responsibility for attacks against corporate and government websites worldwide.
The group also claims credit for disrupting the websites of Visa and MasterCard in December when the credit card companies stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
On Tuesday U.S. authorities announced 14 arrests in connection with December attacks on Internet payment service PayPal that were claimed by Anonymous. Two other Americans, four Dutch nationals and one Briton were arrested on suspicion of participating in other attacks against companies and organizations, U.S. authorities said.
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The NATO endangers - not just potentially - the lives and the security of innocent civilians everywhere on this planet. They disparage their innocent victims as "collateral damages". They help antidemocratic dictators (Bahrain; German tanks for Saudis) and help antidemocratic criminals (the "rebels" in Libya).
They permanently break the golden rule.
So what?
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On anoter note, maybe someday NATO and other governmental bodies will start prosecuting the Johnnies that recommend M$ Windoze to be used as the operating system of choice. Chinese have the source code for this and an army of hackers who know how to use it and its secret back doors to crack systems.....using 'front organizations' as fig leaves to cover their tracks. Knowing this, all use of windows by governments is really treasons against those governments.
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Scene 1: Setting - an American high school somewhere.
Outside, a group of boys are laughingly kicking around a hornet's nest. Inside, a group of boys are laughingly inviting reprisals from both publically and privately funded "black bag" hit teams.
Scene 2: Action Sequence
Nobody in the audience is surprised by the events in the action sequence, and are saved from boredom only due to the scene's brevity (resulting in favorable critiques contrasting it with the Matrix sequels).
Scene 3: Setting - the same American high school.
Outside, a slightly smaller and more cautious group of boys are laughingly kicking around a hornet's nest, but with longer run-ups and with those observing keeping a greater distance. Some wear band-aids. Occasionally a wisp of smoke drifts in from off-camera.
See? No drama. Too predictable.
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Will such restrictions come to pass? Legislatively, probably not. Bureaucratically? Probably incrementally yes, moreso with each passing day. I wish I could write off that feeling as just "base conspiratorialism" lurking around the corner, but sadly I think history implies that they'll at least try. Don't let a good crisis go to waste!
Hopefully "incompetence" will triumph over "evil intent", and life will continue on as normal!
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Iran Air Flight 655 was a civilian jet airliner shot down by the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 66 children.
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