The headline itself made this worth sharing

  • glibg10b
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    192 years ago

    the group says it’s gotten into the government web portal for the South African OR Tambo district

    As a South African, that’s not much of an accomplishment

  • @[email protected]
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    472 years ago

    That SHOULD be a shocking headline but… have any awareness of the various hacker orgs out there and this doesn’t even move the needle.

    That said: I always have mixed thoughts when it comes to hacks like this. Because governments and the like do a lot of REALLY heinous shit and getting awareness of the particularly fucked up stuff is important.

    But hacker orgs tend to not work with journalists who understand how to vet and redact things. So you might get something “juicy” and then a LOT of information that the general public will never read but OTHER organizations will and will use to endanger people who actually aren’t being monsters (or are possibly being coerced into supporting occupation forces).

    • @[email protected]
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      142 years ago

      Hacker color schemes these days:

      ⬛🟥

      ⬛🟩

      ⬛🩷🟪

      ⬛🟥🟨🟩🟦🟪🩷

      • @[email protected]
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        I personally blame that more on wikileaks and “The Media”

        Wikileaks was very much put forward as paragons of journalism and so forth. And ignoring the editorialized headlines for a lot of their “leaks” (and I think a few were determined to be outright intentionally mislabeling footage?), they very much were not “journalists”, They basically just put anything and everything they were given online. Whether it is footage of US soldiers committing war crimes or the secret handshake of a sorority (seriously…). They did a lot of good and a LOT of bad.

        She… probably should have done a better job of pre-filtering what she provided. But she also, likely, thought she was giving a CNN journalist the information rather than the equivalent of a kid on reddit.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Hey I’m curious what the bad things they did were? I just know them to have revealed evidence of heinous war crimes committed by the USA.

    • theodewere
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      22 years ago

      it’s almost certainly a spoof cover of the Chinese or someone

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          Oh the motive is probably because NATO is an organisation that overthrows governments like Libya. They probably wanted to see what NATO was planning on doing in Niger or another country they want to exploit.

      • Flying Squid
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        232 years ago

        Slow your roll there, Vlad. You have a whole other country to finish invading first.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Pretty sure it’s mainly non-furry non-gay hackers that take down the majority of websites.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 years ago

      Tons of infosec folks are furries, gay etc… I’m presuming, because having to hide your personality is quite the motivation to learn about potential attacks and defenses.

      So, no matter whether you think of this particular stunt as good or bad, it’s really not indicative of gay furry hackers a whole. Most of them are holding our IT infrastructure together, without doing big name hacks in their freetime.

      • theodewere
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        12 years ago

        the call from the gay furry hackers is coming from inside the house

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        It looks like you’re attempting English. Could you put just a bit more effort into it? I’d love to understand what it is you’re saying.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          aight

          i believe homosexuality is of lower morals, as such, i do request you to increase the positive vote count of my comment by one if you happened to weep upon reading the initial post.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            Why would you believe that about homosexuality? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. Try and open your mind some. You might find yourself happier as a result.

            • glibg10b
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              You’re being trolled because you missed the sarcasm in their original comment

              A troll’s goal is to make you angry. If you can learn to identify trolls and choose to ignore them, they won’t get what they’re looking for

              https://www.wikihow.com/Identify-a-Troll

              Welcome to the internet. I hope you enjoy your stay

            • @[email protected]
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              32 years ago

              ??? i do believe to have misinterpreted your original comment, i don’t have anything against queer folks (i kinda sorta am one), i would like to apologize for any inconvenience i have caused

              • @[email protected]
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                12 years ago

                Yeah. You misinterpreted. My original point was that it’s dumb that we’ve gotten to this point. Nothing at all to do with being gay. I’m totally open to that stuff. An ally if you will.

                • @[email protected]
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                  As a The Gay™, I won’t, please.

                  We want nothing to do with folks who miss obvious jokes.

  • Zimmy
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    282 years ago

    Can the gay furries get the alien files next?

  • theodewere
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    so a group of furry hackers is a cabal, not like a pack or a litter or something

    “FBI Bags Litter of Hacker Furries”