Lulzsec and Anonymous Hackers leak over 10GB of Law Enforcement Agency Details

http://www.invisblenandu.com/2011/08/lulzsec-and-anonymous-hackers-leak-over.html

by canistr • 15 years ago

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GHFigs• 15 years ago

Why?

burgerbrain5• 15 years ago

Read the article:

"We hope that not only will dropping this info demonstrate the inherently corrupt nature of law enforcement using their own words, as well as result in possibly humiliation, firings, and possible charges against several officers, but that it will also disrupt and sabotage their ability to communicate and terrorize communities.

We are doing this in solidarity with Topiary and the Anonymous PayPal LOIC defendants as well as all other political prisoners who are facing the gun of the crooked court system. We stand in support of all those who struggle against the injustices of the state and capitalism using whatever tactics are most effective, even if that means breaking their laws in order to expose their corruption. You may bust a few of us, but we greatly outnumber you, and you can never stop us from continuing to destroy your systems and leak your data."

aysar• 15 years ago

Shit just got real...

metafour• 15 years ago

???

I saw no mention of the wave function or its complex conjugate...

BasDirks2• 15 years ago

AFAIK shit's been real for quite a while. How is this worse than past publications?

rbanffy3• 15 years ago

I'd finger the snitch list. If those are active in violent crime investigation, they'd better run.

flatline• 15 years ago

Ugh, the personal data and "snitch list" seem particularly bad to release. It does raise the question as to why this stuff is on remotely accessible servers, but still, it seems like this is just a freebie handout to identity thieves and perhaps worse for the snitch list?

lallysingh• 15 years ago

When I saw the snitch list, I assumed it was a message to any would-be snitches that know anything about Lulsec.

burgerbrain5• 15 years ago

From the release:

"We have no sympathy for any of the officers or informants who may be endangered by the release of their personal information. For too long they have been using and abusing our personal information, spying on us, arresting us, beating us, and thinking that they can get away with oppressing us in secrecy. Well it's retribution time: we want them to experience just a taste of the kind of misery and suffering they inflict upon us on an everyday basis. Let this serve as a warning to would-be snitches and pigs that your leaders can no longer protect you: give up and turn on your masters now before it's too late."

You must remember, despite what the police would like you to believe most "snitches" are not little old ladies reporting violent crimes.

Edit: Yeah, just read through about half of these. Most of them are along the vein of "My neighbours keeps to themselves, therefore they do drugs". Fuck these people.

I did get a chuckle out of "jessica bruno - knows who set fire to land excavator equipment" though. The thought of setting a bulldozer on fire absurdly amusing to me for some reason ;)

tptacek• 15 years ago

"Yeah, just read through about half of these. Most of them are along the vein of "My neighbours keeps to themselves, therefore they do drugs". Fuck these people"

If anyone wonders why I flag stories like this, here's a good example.

rhizome3• 15 years ago

Law enforcement officers get passes all the time for life-affecting (and even ruining) behavior, with stepping over the line being just a few bad apples or a problem of perception that is routinely flagged as "followed policy," but once civilians get even close to the line it's a first-order travesty.

If civilians have to endure "you can beat the charge but you can't beat the ride" harassment from LEOs, they can get a little sketched-out once in a while. Populist actions like this are pretty much the only checks remaining on LEO behavior.

maeon3• 15 years ago

Most people are going to says lulzsec is doing something illegal and immoral here. Consider a different example:

A bank robber robs a bank, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars, then proceeds to hand out the money to anyone who wants it. Who are you more mad at? The bank robber who figured out a way to steal the money, or the bank who has no clue how the money was stolen?

eric-hu• 15 years ago

I was with them until the snitch list. These aren't exactly people abusing power (AFAIK). If there was one particular person among the snitch list that was interesting, they should've just cited that one. Releasing the entire list can seriously endanger some innocent people.

Overall I still like that they're trying to wrest power from those who abuse it, but I think it hurts their stance to cause collateral damage like that.

meatsock• 15 years ago

the reason snitches talk is because they ran out of ways to avoid prosecution, so i feel the innocent would be the minority in that group, as the police wouldn't have anything on them to compel cooperation.

canistr• 15 years ago

From your example, most people would be more mad at the bank robber because of the malicious intent.

Unseelie• 15 years ago

You're connecting the two examples too much. While releasing this information may well have malicious intent, robbing a bank to give away money (as this information was hacked -to leak-) isn't exactly malicious. Leaking information that can be a warning or making an example of, now that can be. Intent depends on intent, and the intent of the example bank robbers was to hand out free cash. (and banks are insured...)

gdcbyers• 15 years ago

That is just illogical.

The "banks" mistakes and failures do not justify the crimes committed by the "robbers". If you forgot to lock your car one day, it would be acceptable for me to steal said car if my intent was to teach you to always lock your doors?

Flam• 15 years ago

Also on that site, I just noticed he posted admin and db info for MIT damn

Estragon• 15 years ago

Is there a list somewhere of all these different leaks? It is getting hard to keep track, these days.

aj7002• 15 years ago

Isn't the main problem that technology moves so fast that the only way to have an organisation (that must) be secure is to staff it with teenagers.

You can have incompetent but responsible adults or competent but irresponsible teenagers. Choose one?

scotth• 15 years ago

That's absurd. Why would a teenager know more than an adult about security?

aj7002• 15 years ago

The hackers are kids, the people getting broken into are adults, so apparently they do know more.

hugh3• 15 years ago

Move over, Wikileaks, there's an even bigger group of cunts with even lower ethical standards in town!

This will not end well.

Joakal• 15 years ago

Are all these USA-only?

palish• 15 years ago

Someone who isn't me had this to say:

"Be careful, the mail archive contains dozens of .exe virus files. Verified by SecurityEssentials. If you accidentally run them then you'll infect yourself. (This implies many of the officers are using infected computers, since these exes are in their email.)"

Lulzsec and Anonymous Hackers leak over 10GB of Law Enforcement Agency Details

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