On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Ken Chase <math@sizone.org> wrote:
http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/01/obams-war-on-hackers.html
Therefore, immediate end of this thread? Are all subscribers to this list now to be inconvenienced at airports? (Sorry, my bad.)
Do we all need a CCNP Security-multipass to log into IRC now? Which channels are now a good idea to avoid? #linux? #bitcoin? #nanog? #obamasucks? #blacklivesmatter? (in Canada #idlenomore is similar and equally targetted by Palantir/Tempests as the latter was).
What constitutes racketeering in 'communication'? Membership on a mailing list or just reading a webpage?
[ This week I was investigating a colleague's website, so I ran dig(1) in a bash terminal in putty - she saw a text terminal, and exclaimed "Wait, stop, are you hacking my website?!" I blame Sandra Bullock and to a lesser extent Carrie Ann Moss (and the nmap crew, esp. for using actually-plausible toolsets/techniques). ]
This is an age old game, but the ante has just been upped. Our industry should respond to this.
One has to wonder how any of this applies to the 'countries that hack' accusations that the FBI/CIA/NSA have always laid claim to. -Jim P.