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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Jetee, either you've missed all the things that Anonymous (which is an organized group) has done in the past 2 years or you've been under a rock. There are "white hat" hackers that expose issues in websites and software so that they can be fixed. They don't exploit the holes, and sometimes they're paid for their services. There are actually businesses that do exactly that - look for security holes. Sometimes they're soliticed, sometimes not.
I think that if you're interested, you need to read what's here at TFP as well as what's readily available in the media. This is no small story.
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No, I get it, and have contributed in these
hacker discussion before, but I've never known they were called as one, the
Anonymous.
I've always thought of "white hatted" hackers as a misnomer/contradiction. I don't beleive they ever really refer to themselves as such in occupation, but that could just be my naive assumption. Scripters, programmers, intel-services, sure, but what respectable company actually goes onto Monster.com searching for "hacker"?
Onto the real issue, I don't quite see the story here. Security Breaches are sure, a cause for concern in any organization, community, government whatever, but this group (is there even a confirmation, whatever that may be: a virtual signature of 'you've been had!', which has been discovered that this Anonymous Clan, alone, perpetrated this? I have yet to find one in the above, or on MSNBC, nor in LATimes sources.) hasn't done too much damage, in my opinion. Gawker.com, if I'm not entirely wrong, is just a (inter-connected,
expansive) blog; a daily-news, sometimes-political, nearly-always just commentative, but all the same, it is just a blog.
Perhaps I've become jaded, as living for a few seasons in the Ukraine, you are actually afraid to go online because of the rampant hacking there; (and it's wild; various Russian polls and articles state, in small variances, that the average age of a hacker is 9-15 years old.) and it's not just small-stuff. No fewer than five former Eastern-bloc countries have gone public that they have had online govermental security breaches, and since late 2007, have begun contracting US-counter intel mercenaries (.. or, as you might like to refer to them, "white hatted hackers).
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Thanks, SMeth. I'll do a little back-history reading on what this online nusiance group has done, and perhaps they also state 'why?'.
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semi-related:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/general...light=password