Lulzsec is encouraging everyone to deface government websites with #AntiSec as well as in physical graffiti.
'Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments'.
Claims to have Anonymous on board.
Does anyone else smell a less free Internet approaching closer?
The less free internet seems inevitable. Laws are often passed and almost never abolished. So it's a slope that you can fall down slowly while almost never climbing back up. Over time it seems very, very, likely that more and more regulation and restrictions will be imposed on a per-country basis. The question seems to be the rate and resistance.
Good article. I had the chance to spend some time with Marcus Ranum back around that era and it was formative to my career focus in security. However, I think there there's a second part of this historical narrative you're laying out. It's that the government will fail to accomplish security of computer systems just like they've failed to accomplish security of physical locations. At that point that government will start looking like a really bad deal.
If this government wants to survive this coming era, it will not do what's feared. If it does do the sort of crackdowns people are fearing, it will not survive. Either it will be broken outright by the hackers and those who still care about freedom or it will fair to accomplish security and be broken by the people that still aren't safe.
The best chance is to actually address the issues by developing better technology in dialogue with the hackers and the security minded. This may make the short term harder but it will set the foundation for a superior nation built on something that can actually be defended.
How exactly do you think the internet would be "less free". Would there be fines/jail time for sql injection? Port scanning? Issuing DDOS attacks? I guess you'd have less freedom to do these things but most of these are against ISP TOS any way. Are you worried about an internet police state enforcing the rules?
Make the punishment stiffer and/or secure your servers (not exactly possibly with DDOS) and these "problems" go away.
In the early/mid 90's there were lots of high speed chases in Los Angeles. The penalties got stiffer, the media stopped reporting it, no one really cared, and i guess the freeways/roads became "less free".
I had a similar thought, but the less free internet has been in the works for years before these guys came around. With or without groups like this, it is inevitable. The powers in place fear what they can't control.
Dear Lulzsek, eye for an eye, and everybody goes blind. If you have something to ask from the government, please write a Petition or a Freedom of Information request, or any other formal request. Hey, with all your power you could event start a site to inform people of their democratic choices and suggest actions that make the world a better place.
Don't act like rude kids, that just denigrates our image as a whole and eventually further spoils our beloved common space known as the Internet.
Lulzsec is encouraging everyone to deface government websites with #AntiSec as well as in physical graffiti.
'Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments'.
Claims to have Anonymous on board.
Does anyone else smell a less free Internet approaching closer?