anti-sec: yup, they're pricks
Saturday, 11. July 2009, 04:10:56
So, I decided to poke around and find out a little bit about these anti-sec fellows and their intentions, and I found this:
http://romeo.copyandpaste.info/
Now, I thought that maybe I was wrong and they wanted to keep the exploits private so they could disclose them to the developers. Maybe I was wrong about this petulant "movement", maybe it was just misunderstood and misguided. Nope.
Yup, they're a bunch of pricks, just as I had suspected. Never has the hacker cliché been so throughly reinforced. What this tells me is that they want to participate in defacement en masse of any website they can get their grubby hands on, a trait common in the script-kiddie community that they so thoroughly despise.
Further on down the page is their little mantra, it's pretty generic self-entitled bullshit, but two lines caught my eye:
Take back the "scene"? "Never sell out, never surrender"? Wait, do you think you are some indie band, taking back the "scene"? I mean, I guess I could understand "selling out" by getting a job or something, but how the hell do you surrender on the internet? You're not fighting a war; new servers can be bought, new IPs can be found, no one's going to kill you via your computer. I mean, unless your toaster is connected to the internet:
Don't fuck with Schneier.
Then I got to their little collection of text documents, I'm going to have fun reading those, maybe I'll do a series or something on them.
Finally, I got to their "Rules of Engagement", back to the whole war thing, I guess it makes them feel more "epic" or some bullshit like that. One of their rules made me chuckle:
I love irony.
http://romeo.copyandpaste.info/
Now, I thought that maybe I was wrong and they wanted to keep the exploits private so they could disclose them to the developers. Maybe I was wrong about this petulant "movement", maybe it was just misunderstood and misguided. Nope.
~ Fuck full-disclosure
~ Fuck the security industry
~ Keep 0days private
~ Hack everyone you can and then hack some more
Yup, they're a bunch of pricks, just as I had suspected. Never has the hacker cliché been so throughly reinforced. What this tells me is that they want to participate in defacement en masse of any website they can get their grubby hands on, a trait common in the script-kiddie community that they so thoroughly despise.
Further on down the page is their little mantra, it's pretty generic self-entitled bullshit, but two lines caught my eye:
Take back the scene.
Never sell out, never surrender.
Take back the "scene"? "Never sell out, never surrender"? Wait, do you think you are some indie band, taking back the "scene"? I mean, I guess I could understand "selling out" by getting a job or something, but how the hell do you surrender on the internet? You're not fighting a war; new servers can be bought, new IPs can be found, no one's going to kill you via your computer. I mean, unless your toaster is connected to the internet:
Don't fuck with Schneier.
Then I got to their little collection of text documents, I'm going to have fun reading those, maybe I'll do a series or something on them.
Finally, I got to their "Rules of Engagement", back to the whole war thing, I guess it makes them feel more "epic" or some bullshit like that. One of their rules made me chuckle:
Don't get too cocky.
I love irony.
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