When [Otellini] joined the company in 1974, most people didn't even know what a PC was - From the Wall St Journal 11-11-2004
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NSA warns of Anonymous attacks on utilities
THE HEAD of the US National Security Agency (NSA) has warned that hacktivist group Anonymous might turn its attention away from organisations and towards utilities like power.
Director of the NSA General Keith Alexander voiced the warning at closed meetings at the White House, according to a report at the Wall Street Journal.
Alexander has not gone public with the warning, and the WSJ quotes sources for its story. These sources are undisclosed, and Anonymous is calling the report disinformation.
"Anonymous attracted the attention of the National Security Agency. In private meetings at the White House, NSA director General Keith Alexander warned that in a year or two the group could attack the energy grid and shut off power for millions," says a post on an Anonymous-linked blog.
"Ridiculous! Why should Anonymous shut off power grid? Makes no sense! They just want to make you feel afraid."
The hackers have always distanced themselves from attacks that hurt individuals directly, and have denied reports about attacks on Facebook in the past, and recently, the internet. µ
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Every Anon member who is caught will likely do jail or prison time for their hacking. They try to pretend they are Robin Hood but no one with a clue is buying that tripe.
Yes but that's not yet accepted by the population at large nor by a few in politics and law that managed to keep a hold on their sanity somewhat, and that's why they have programmes to change that 'problem' through propaganda and such.
Police state, space aliens, drug lords, Muslims???????
See Mommy and get your meds.
NSA is just looking for excuses to help bring in total police state. Good job.
First it was Negros, then it was pot, then in was comunist, then it was drug lords, then it was muslim religion, now it's activist. Next all religion maybe? oh no, the white guys would get mad, maybe blame invisable mind controlling aliens and say they are inhabiting bodies of people that you can kill for fun.
Chances are that utilites use a closed circuit system, which probably means that you have to be physically on the premesis to actually hack into it. And as well as that, they probably use a personal bespoke system which would make hacking into it even harder.
This would be much harder than the bog standard anonymous attack of breaking into a public facing web server.
When you attck the FBI, CIA and other law enforcement websites you are by definition a domestic terrorist, so expect to be treaty as such when caught, prosecuted and sent to prison.
I'm surprised the NSA can't get their Intuitive Communicators (ICs) to home in on Anonymous and seek them out...oh hang, maybe some of Anonymous are ICs themselves, and that's why they stay one step ahead of the authorities? Or... Anonymous are a covert team of DIA/CIA/NSA operatives?
Anon hasn't said anything about attacking utilities. They use open forums so this is easy to check. Stop this fear-mongering and do actual research instead of relying on press-releases.
NSA has poor credibility anyways.
First step of making them out as 'terrorists' so they can kidnap them and put them in prison indefinitely, and possibly tortured, or as the US would say, expose them to 'enduring freedom'.
And it's already established that age doesn't matter either.