You can't clamp down on cyberspace. You can try, but it will fail.
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It's one of those sorts of technologies that, once discovered, cannot be contained. Not without using wide-scale destruction to accomplish the job.
Exhibit A that the U.S. gov't isn't adverse to trying.
...people will just set up ad-hoc networks and recreate the internet in an inefficient but nonetheless effective manner.
Effectiveness is relative. It would suck.
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...people will just set up ad-hoc networks and recreate the internet in an inefficient but nonetheless effective manner.
Effectiveness is relative. It would suck.
At first, sure, but pretty quickly technology would adjust from being geared towards big fat centralized pipes to a completely distributed network, and it would get better.
I think this is eventually where we need to go, anyway, so I say to them bring it on. It'll just push us towards the future. IMO.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
I'd rather be pushed when there aren't razorblades on my slip-and-slide.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
In the comments they talk about how a 19 year old, that the article claims is the guy in charge of Lulz Security, was arrested, but I can't find that in the articles I'm seeing on the subject.
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That would be Ryan Cleary they are talking about. He runs an IRC server that LulzSec used for their IRC chat room. Along with lots of other IRC chat rooms.
So of course, according to police, that makes him the ringleader of LulzSec. Which seems a little desperate to pin it all on someone fast, to me.
Honestly, so far the authorities look more like the keystone kops on this one. Hell the FBI doesn't even know the difference between a single server and a server rack. That sort of thing doesn't make them look very competent.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
TPRJones wrote:Honestly, so far the authorities look more like the keystone kops on this one. Hell the FBI doesn't even know the difference between a single server and a server rack. That sort of thing doesn't make them look very competent.
I've met data recovery/computer forensics specialists from the public, private, and academic sectors.
The ones that worked in the private sector were usually stand-up cats, and more than a few were frighteningly knowledgeable about how to swipe goddamn near every bit of info off your machine.
The academic ones were either too socially inept to hack it in the real world, suffered from Aquaman syndrome, or were just lazy.
The ones in the public sector, the gov't ones, were the least impressive. They didn't strike me as IT specialists. It's like they found some cops who had a computer science hobby and trained them in very narrow ways. And they all came off like authoritarian pricks with Napoleon complexes, like the nerds that nerds pick on.
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Lulzsec’s end comes a week after the arrest of Ryan Cleary, who was suspected of being involved with the group. Earlier this week Lulzsec themselves were hacked by a group calling themselves The A-Team, who released Lulzsec members’ personal information and chat logs onto the Internet.
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