They work for the Chinese government, as far as I can tell. Their only risk of jail is if they fail their masters, and that is more likely to lead to a bullet purchase. I wonder if they would hack Obama’s sites.
Wow, that takes a lot of guts to try and shut down the CIA website.
Methinks they might have pissed off the wrong gorilla.
“[Insert name here] former member of the hacker group known as Lulz Security, was killed today when apparently his brakes failed and he plunged down a sharp embankment into Fool Sucka’s Creek. The vehicle exploded upon impact. Authorities aren’t ruling out foul play, but initial investigations blame faulty equipment for the accident...”
If this was 1942 they would be tracked down and shot. In 2011 they probably will get to be Internet Czars in the Obama Administration.
How embarrassing.
That sounds like a typical Rockford Files episode.
Um. But maybe, being a vast bureaucracy, this is about as far separated from the "killer black ops dudes in Afghanistan" as the campus ROTC guys are from Seal Team 6.
I bet there were 100 times more people in meetings creating action items and emails circulating around the government today trying to figure out whose department is in charge of the cia.gov website than there are agents trying to "honeytrap" actual Intel Agents in all of China and Russia, etc, or who would even know someone to call to get a car boobytrapped, much less be able to identify a brake line on a car themselves.
Look at it this way. This is the rare example where the government outsourced a study on their security systems, and it didn't cost millions of dollars or take years of consultants. We got our money's worth for once!
I have a longtime friend who started working with the early computers and the security efforts at that time, which was in 1988 at the age of 19.
He now has a position in Wash DC, working under Government contract in computer security. He recently told me that that were seeing attacks coming out of China that were so sophisticated and unique that he was getting lessons in higher learning in regard to cyber security.
He said nearly ALL of it was coming out of China. Anyone who thinks this is a bunch of hooligans operating in the U.S. are kidding themselves.
I'd say we're being tested. Imagine if they took out the electrical grid, or the banking grid, for any length of time here in the U.S.
4Chan?
“It was unclear if the outage was due to the group’s efforts or to the large number of internet users trying to check the site.”
That *does* deserve the lulz.