Imageshack hacked by "anti-sec movement"

[Revy]

http://i30.tinypic.com/214w0pg.jpg

:confused:

[Dervish]

Yeah right, they're real freedom fighters...

Look here-
http://romeo.copyandpaste.info/
If you want to follow that stupid movement

[Revy]

I uploaded an image to ImageShack and suddenly it had turned into that. I'm not supporting it because I honestly have no idea what it is.

[9]

I belong in the 1920's, I don't understand the internets..

[Dervish]

This piece from the link I pasted should tell you something about them-

"
Blend in.
Get trusted.
Trust no one.
Own everyone.
Disclose nothing.
Destroy everything.
Take back the scene.
Never sell out, never surrender.
Get in as anonymous, Leave with no trace."

Although, they certainly are capable hackers.

[Manzil]

Pretend I have absolutely no idea what the 'anti-sec movement' is and feel even more clueless having perused that website. What is this all about?

[Dervish]

Pretend I have absolutely no idea what the 'anti-sec movement' is and feel even more clueless having perused that website. What is this all about?

Just a bunch of bored, hacktivists-without-a-cause

[Dust Bunnies]

I'm confused... but they seem like a potent force on the Internet. Though it is only a matter of time until they piss off the wrong Capitalist (if they haven't already) and get arrested.

[Rusty Shackleford]

ok by full-disclosure do they mean that companies are willfully providing program failures in order to allow people to develop ways of hacking them, thus creating a need for a firewall?

kind of like goodyear making tires that only last so long so the customer MUST buy more?

and what they want to do is destroy that information that they make avaliable?

i hope i understood what they meant.

[Dervish]

ok by full-disclosure do they mean that companies are willfully providing program failures in order to allow people to develop ways of hacking them, thus creating a need for a firewall?

kind of like goodyear making tires that only last so long so the customer MUST buy more?

and what they want to do is destroy that information that they make avaliable?

i hope i understood what they meant.

They refer to the full disclosure of the details of security problems.
Sometimes when security researchers find a vulnerability, they disclose the details of that vulnerability online, thus allowing malicious computer users to use that information and to exploit that vulnerability in places that it wasn't yet fixed. Sometimes researchers even release a proof-of-concept exploit - a ready made hacking program that exploits the vulnerability that they've found. When they release that proof-of-concept exploit online, usually script-kiddies, a term for wanna-be hackers without any real knowledge of computer security use these ready made tools to hack computers who are vulnerable.

[Revy]

why does this remind me of Fight Club? :D

[Dervish]

What they claim is that the computer security industry itself creates the need of firewalls and anti-viruses, because, besides their scare-tactics, they actually provide script kiddies with extremely easy to use hacking tools.

[9]

What they claim is that the computer security industry itself creates the need of firewalls and anti-viruses

They should look at pharmaceutical companies creating psychiatric conditions so they can market the supposed "treatment". In fact, I suspect this is the case with many industries, which create nonexistent problems so they can make a profit "solving" them (whereas the real problems are almost never even addressed, let alone solved). I'm probably dreaming, or maybe a confused luddite, but I'm immediately thinking of ways to utilize this sort of technological expertise. And what a silly cause they seem to have.. particularly when there are so many worthy causes!

[JazzRemington]

This seems like a rip-off of those 80s hacker groups that were really just a single person churning out crappy text files.

[Sarah Palin]

I fervently support the hijacking of the internetz by leftists but I have no idea what the hell they are talking about.

[gorillafuck]

Can someone explain their goals to me in the language of someone who doesn't know shit about the internet?