Hackers : Engage Brain before Keyboard!

I just got done looking over some raw data dumps from Anonynmous's #Opisrael campaign. Not all, but enough now to get a sense that they are FAR beyond just meddling with websites and public facade areas to look cool. They are apparently into some of the more sensitive but lower level systems over there. Data and specifics on some of it most definitely didn't come from the layers of a public website.

Now, I'd wonder here. Have these people considered something? A number of nations in the world aren't as kind and generous as the United States is about chasing down enemies of the State. The U.S. Arrests them and looks like the Keystone Cops, chasing them all over the world to get handcuffs on them. Julian Assange is an example and he still sits, albeit miserable in his own immediate conditions, a comparatively free man. (He'd know the difference beyond any whisper of doubt....if introduced to Bradley Manning's world of daily life)

That's the American way. It breeds a level of arrogance and detached thinking from reality that isn't helpful. It could start wars.

One area Anonymous is claiming ..and some data already released suggests it MAY very well not be a bluff.. is precise targeting data for locations to jamming and electronic warfare systems used to insure incoming missiles with guidance systems can't hit the broad side of an entire city with the scrambled eggs for electronic brains they're left with by impact time. THAT kind of hit COULD encourage an attack that otherwise wouldn't have happened. (and...whatever success? Would be followed by a MAJOR loss of life on the Palestinian side during the retaliations.......Mission success would lead to Mission Nightmare...Way to go Anony! ).


There are TWO MAJOR THINGS I'd want the people using the Anony banner on this to consider though.

#1. The United States, prior to 2011, had a very hodge podge and poorly trained law enforcement community for reacting to and handling organized street protest and citizen unrest short of violence. After Occupy, damn them all sometimes, the U.S. has among the BEST equipped, trained and able forces in the world for suppression of citizen protest and dissent. LIVE PRACTICE for the better part of a year on willing "training dummies" allowed them to perfect method and equipment alike.

^^^^ The *BEST* of intentions? Led to the worst of outcomes for us all. It couldn't have been foreseen in September of 2011...but it sure can NOW. KNOCK IT OFF ANONYMOUS.

#2. For every attack which hackers make that does not go for VERY MEANINGFUL end results and passes over substance for symbolism ? The forces responding get just a bit better, a bit more experienced and a bit more effective at countering, hunting down and suppressing electronic dissent.

^^^^^ YOU ARE DESTROYING YOUR OWN CAUSE FOR THE 15 MINUTES OF FAME! STOP! ! !


One last parting thought for the hackers who seem to be far more about fame than function. Israel doesn't arrest it's National Threat problems like the US does in most cases. (Yeah...the American Jihadi's make BIG exceptions..but it's not the rule yet). Israel KILLS it's enemies. From Black September to Khaled Meshal (Google if the name doesn't ring a bell......There but for the notice of the Israelis goes Anonymous right now), Israel assassinates those who piss them off badly enough ....and this hacking is getting there quick, I'd say.

Israel isn't the ONLY nation, by any means, to do it either. Sitting in the United States or United Kingdom ALSO won't do anything or make any difference to the outcome...if Israel or other nations with similar response histories deem some "hacktivist" to have finally gone far enough to invest and spend time on responding to.

In the mean time and after the successful ones get their .22 caliber reward at the base of the skull (a rather well known and near signature method by..some agencies), those left behind face an ever growing monster of a world authority bearing down in response to the hacking ...across every aspect of electronic life. What is being accomplished??? Some kids and hackers get bragging rights and "Cool Points" while those who may NEED THAT MEDIUM to REALLY FIGHT down the road? Won't have it anymore.

Thanks out to all those who are the problem, not the solution. You do far more to hurt the cause than help it.

You raise some good points about hacker persecution. It is true that not every country treats those who break its laws with as much restraint as the US but at the same time, a lot of those countries may not have the ethical restraint to simply "terminate" a hacker, and may try to convert that hacker as a state asset.

China springs to mind (see citizenlab.org...) as the state itself has become tied to hacking attempts traced to its population. Perhaps this is a double-edged sword in the sense that if a hacker is going down, he or she through state-affiliation becomes part of the system they tried to subvert.

"It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them!" - Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode III.

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I agree with your rant. I don't know if maybe it's the whole "instant gratification" mindset that's fueling most of their actions or what, but these hacker groups don't seem to stop and consider the long term implications of anything that they do. They claim to be working for the common good but in their rush to do something they don't consider how much they can be harming the very people they claim to serve, nor the possible dangers they pose to themselves or others.

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Do you really consider anything useful coming out of the group called" Anonymous"?

I have seen maybe one thing that Anon did that might get an applaud.The Steubenville Rape Case. Other then that, I see no real benefit to Hacking. There are other ways to get your point across.