Texas-based defense contractor hacked by Anonymous
(AP) -- A Texas-based defense and aerospace firm says one of its top officials has had his email account broken into by the hacking group Anonymous.
Vanguard Defense Industries' chief executive Michael Buscher says messages have been stolen from the private Gmail account of Richard T. Garcia, a former FBI agent who now works as the company's senior vice president.
Anonymous says in a statement that it has pilfered 1 gigabyte of private emails and documents from Garcia's account.
But Buscher told The Associated Press Friday that "there isn't anything sensitive" in the released material.
Buscher's Spring, Texas-based company specializes in the design and development of drones, unmanned aerial vehicles for law enforcement and the private sector.
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If you want to be of use, if you really, REALLY want to impress the world...do the following:
1) Hack the World's Maffia families and lay out their cost and accounting for the last 30 years.
2) Break into the Yakuza's stock portfolios and transfer the 'benefits' to Greepeace or doctors-without-walls, salvation army, etc, etc, etc...
3) Find Jimmy Hoffa.
4) Hack the patent office and fix the ancient-as-hell patent application system by writing them a patent app that time stamps your app and has prior art peer review capability.
5) Prove Michelle Bachmann is, IS holding illegal aliens against their will in the basement of one of her houses AND that she is an illegal alien, from another planet, who escaped from solitary confinement.
6) Publish secret documents from the Russian, Chinese, Libyan, Iranian military industrial complex...I mean, you ARE tough enough to do this and live...right? I knw U R!
word-to-ya-muthas!
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You fools should do something useful, like hack the filthy rich "failed" financial companies that got bailed out by congress, and prove they have committed fraud and stole the people's money. This way we could throw all the CEOs and their entire boards, and top employees in prison...forever...
If you want to play "Robin Hood and his merry men," then at least do what Robin Hood did: Steal from the rich and give to the poor, etc, as 210 said.