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Sun newspaper being hacked

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  • #62
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Someone hired by an organisation to test their security ?

    Personally wouldn't even use the word hacker for that.

    Well, it's just as well your definitions don't count.


  • #63
    rebel girl 15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,248 ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »
    Yeah sun reporter phone numbers there for all to see.:pac:

    Very bad thing to do, what if someone decides to hack their mobiles, oh wait....... :pac:


  • #64
    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    wait a minute

    i was driving home from work at 10 o clock and the news came on claiming your man was dead and gardai refused to comment and so on


    well done lulzsec .. that happened fast there !

    just as a ref i was listening to nova news !


  • #65
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Infact, it's pointless listing people out. Because you've demonstrated that you don't understand the word 'hacker'. What you view as a hacker, is infact a cracker. A hacker is purely someone who has the will and curiosity to solve problems in the field of IT.

    If you bothered to read my original post you'd know that I differentiated between the colloquial (incorrect use) and the actual use.

    So less of the patronising put-downs, please. You're wrong.

    The thread isn't about "Sun newspaper being problem-solved by someone with the will and curiosity to solve problems".

    I would have used "cracker" had the news reports from the past week and the thread title been phrased accurately.


  • #66
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    I thought Lulzsec had disbanded after a 'targeted five week plan' of mischief?


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  • #67
    Seifer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭Seifer


    dlofnep wrote: »
    A big claim my whole. Affordable person computers were designed by the likes of Steve Wozniak and a few others - all self-proclaimed hackers.

    Tim Berners-Lee designed the web as we know it today, another hacker.

    J. Licklider worked on the Arpanet, another hacker.

    Infact, it's pointless listing people out. Because you've demonstrated that you don't understand the word 'hacker'. What you view as a hacker, is infact a cracker. A hacker is purely someone who has the will and curiosity to solve problems in the field of IT.

    How can you make this distinction and not realise it completely refutes any point you were trying to make?
    By your own definition Lulz Sec are crackers and not hackers so they are not doing any of the good stuff true hackers ever contributed.


  • #68
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    The Times site is down as well.

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk


  • #69
    rebel girl 15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,248 ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    Latest tweet from Lulz
    Arrest us. We dare you. We are the unstoppable hacking generation and you are a wasted old sack of ****, Murdoch. ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER


  • #70
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Who is this individual to decide who's next ? What if they arbitrarily decide that Pace2008 is a valid target based on their warped criteria of right and wrong ?
    Tha'd be ****. Dicks fuxk pussies too, or so I've heard.

    Looking at attacks they've carried out in the past, it doesn't seem their targets are picked in an entirely arbitrary manner, though nor do their actions seem wholly based on altruism.

    In any case, I just can't bring myself to shed a tear in this instance.


  • #71
    sollar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    http://twitpic.com/5sa8il

    front page before taken down


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  • #72
    ahyeahok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭ahyeahok


    Cionád wrote: »
    LOL @ this screenshot

    Look at the smaller stories

    edit: smaller stories are real.. woops


  • #73
    refusetolose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭refusetolose


    news international site is down too

    http://www.newsinternational.co.uk/


  • #74
    rebel girl 15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,248 ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    The Times website is also down

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/


  • #75
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    neither sky news or bbc websites saying anything about it yet

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/murdoch-death-hackers-target-sun-513264.html

    breaking news has a story though


  • #76
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Seifer wrote: »
    How can you make this distinction and not realise it completely refutes any point you were trying to make?
    By your own definition Lulz Sec are crackers and not hackers so they are not doing any of the good stuff true hackers ever contributed.

    My point exactly.


  • #77
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Jebus H, a targeted media site attack. Hats off to them.


  • #78
    brian ireland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭brian ireland


    sollar wrote: »
    http://twitpic.com/5sa8il

    front page before taken down

    did you see the article on the right hand side "english mascot stabbed to death"
    Twisted humor :D


  • #79
    _whiskers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭_whiskers


    brian ireland wrote: »
    did you see the article on the right hand side "english mascot stabbed to death"
    Twisted humor :D
    that isnt a fake article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/stabbed-british-teenager-suspects-mother-offers-sympathy


  • #80
    ~Rebel~
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,768 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    brian ireland wrote: »
    sollar wrote: »
    http://twitpic.com/5sa8il

    front page before taken down

    did you see the article on the right hand side "english mascot stabbed to death"
    Twisted humor :D
    ...yeah that's not a joke, that's a genuine story...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/stabbed-british-teenager-suspects-mother-offers-sympathy?cat=world&type=article

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  • #81
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Agreed. But the Sun & their ilk should get their comeuppance due to the proper legal process (and, indeed, through the public having more cop on than to buy the rubbish) rather than some internet vandal taking the law into their own hands in order to make the news.

    Who is this individual to decide who's next ? What if they arbitrarily decide that Pace2008 is a valid target based on their warped criteria of right and wrong ?

    This is the UK legal process yes? With Murdoch having owned the last half dozen or more Prime Ministers? Yeah, can't see anything wrong with that.


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  • #82
    Superbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Superbus


    Guardian article.

    I dunno about this. Could do more harm than good - suddenly, however deservedly, they are the victims.


  • #83
    brian ireland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭brian ireland


    _whiskers wrote: »
    that isnt a fake article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/stabbed-british-teenager-suspects-mother-offers-sympathy
    ~Rebel~ wrote: »
    ...yeah that's not a joke, that's a genuine story...
    http://guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/stabbed-british-teenager-suspects-mother-offers-sympathy?cat=world&type=article

    Oops RED FACE :o:o:o:o:o:o


  • #84
    Emiko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 449 ✭✭Emiko


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Yes.

    Next question.

    Why is it morally wrong to hack the Sun's website?


  • #85
    ahyeahok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭ahyeahok


    brian ireland wrote: »
    Oops RED FACE :o:o:o:o:o:o

    me too so then.... its bad when you dont know the difference between a sun news story and a sick joke....


  • #86
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    Emiko wrote: »
    Why is it morally wrong to hack the Sun's website?

    It's the lowest of the low to print ordinary worker's personal details


  • #87
    skelliser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    Ally Dick wrote: »
    It's the lowest of the low to print ordinary worker's personal details

    as opposed to listening to the voicemails of a murdered teenagers mobile phone!!
    lol!


  • #88
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,746 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Ally Dick wrote: »
    It's the lowest of the low to print ordinary worker's personal details

    There's lower stuff than that!


  • #89
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    does this mean no more diddys?


  • #90
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Two wrongs doesn't make a right.


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  • #91
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Min wrote: »
    Two wrongs doesn't make a right.
    If it does, its bad spelling! :P


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