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| Telstra Intimidated by 5 ?Teenage Hackers |
| Friday, 24 June 2011 12:20 |
 Telstra is backing off from a plan to block suspected child porn sites "because of fears of reprisals from the internet vigilantes behind a spate of recent cyber attacks. It is understood the unstructured collective of hackers that identifies itself as Lulz Security, which has an agenda to wreak havoc on corporate and government cyber assets, claiming this is to expose security flaws, is one of Telstra main concerns." Andrew Colley, The Australian, a Rupert Murdoch paper. http://bit.ly/k6ZrXAUpdate 6/28 Perhaps because of the embarrassment of the news reports, Telstra has changed their minds and agreed to block Interpol's list of sites.
Ryan Gallagher and Charles Arthur in the Guardian report LulzSec had only six to eight members, two of whom apparently left as the FBI and MI-5 dedicate dozens of agents. http://bit.ly/juEICl.The Guardian has four days of logs of a LulzSec chat room from inside. http://bit.ly/k6ZrXA. Their report and others suggest that the LuluSez folks are not all teenagers, although a 19 year old friend of the group was arrested in Britain.
Phiber Optik, an old friend, discovered going to jail for hacking is very unpleasent. Some of the best hackers in the world work for the government and it's much tougher than people realize to elude them all. Be very careful.
Pros know that the Internet is much more fragile than most people realize. Jennie's editing some interviews with Columbia University experts who believe the only reason the Internet is not regularly crashed is that the people who know how to crash it choose not to. In particular, the professional malware folks make their (very large) living over the net and have strong incentive not to destroy it.
Ten years ago, a famous Internet pioneer said of course he and many others could bring the whole thing down. Fortunately, they don't want to.
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| Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 June 2011 14:37 |