On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Ken Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/01/obams-war-on-hackers.html > > Therefore, immediate end of this thread? Are all subscribers to this list now > to be inconvenienced at airports? (Sorry, my bad.) > > Do we all need a CCNP Security-multipass to log into IRC now? Which channels > are now a good idea to avoid? #linux? #bitcoin? #nanog? #obamasucks? > #blacklivesmatter? (in Canada #idlenomore is similar and equally targetted by > Palantir/Tempests as the latter was). > > What constitutes racketeering in 'communication'? Membership on a mailing list > or just reading a webpage? > > [ This week I was investigating a colleague's website, so I ran dig(1) in a > bash terminal in putty - she saw a text terminal, and exclaimed "Wait, stop, > are > you hacking my website?!" I blame Sandra Bullock and to a lesser extent Carrie > Ann Moss (and the nmap crew, esp. for using actually-plausible > toolsets/techniques). ] > > This is an age old game, but the ante has just been upped. Our industry should > respond to this.
One has to wonder how any of this applies to the 'countries that hack' accusations that the FBI/CIA/NSA have always laid claim to. -Jim P.
