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DarkD on 10 June 2011
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I thought I would resurrect this thread of mine now that some more people have voiced similar opinions to mine.

http://newschoolsecurity.com/2011/06/are-lulz-our-best-practice/

Sure it sucks when they take down something like PSN, but now these security problems are getting some public exposure. Security analysts scream our heads off at managers every day saying "Our security is terrible give us money to fix it" the managers nod along and say go to hell.... We whip out a contract and say "Sign here saying that we warned you about these security problems and that you knowingly refused to implement fixes for them. "

Sure its great if a white hat comes out and just points goes around mailing to companies about security flaws, but often all the companies do is say "ok lets add a rule to the firewall blocking just that one command and leave everything else". Well guess what.... YOU DIDN'T FOOL ANYONE!!!!

Do I have to scream it in your ears, THIS WAS SONY'S FAULT!!!! They still haven't fixed anything by the sounds of it. GET ANGRY!!!!

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/06/08/harper-hacked-by-hash-brown/

LulzSec (or whoever) has done Harper and Canada a favour by pointing out a dangerous security vulnerability in a pretty innocuous, harmless and lulzy way. The Conservatives are justly embarrassed, and you can bet they’re tightening up their web security right now, and hopefully making sure that a pair of human eyes sees each tweet before it hits their feed.

Can you imagine what would have happened if they wanted to really screw things up? These hackers are capable of sinking an economy if they have access to sites like this.

They also hit PBS as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPe1Rckcjw

listen about 11 minutes in, This guy talks about how dangerous the PBS hack could have been. They could have posted a rumor about Apple and sunk their stocks. Or started a riot by posting on a hot button topic like japan's nuclear crisis.

You get angry at me but you have no clue what your talking about. I don't want them to go around and destroy the world, but if that's what it takes to get things fixed then maybe it's worth it....