Cyber-Attacks by Al Qaeda?
 

You just never know what those fuckers are up to. However, this article in the Washington Post is worth reading.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Jun26.html

Here are a couple exerpts from the article intro:

Late last fall, Detective Chris Hsiung of the Mountain View, Calif., police department began investigating a suspicious pattern of surveillance against Silicon Valley computers. From the Middle East and South Asia, unknown browsers were exploring the digital systems used to manage Bay Area utilities and government offices. Hsiung, a specialist in high-technology crime, alerted the FBI's San Francisco computer intrusion squad.

Working with experts at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the FBI traced trails of a broader reconnaissance. A forensic summary of the investigation, prepared in the Defense Department, said the bureau found "multiple casings of sites" nationwide. Routed through telecommunications switches in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Pakistan, the visitors studied emergency telephone systems, electrical generation and transmission, water storage and distribution, nuclear power plants and gas facilities.

Some of the probes suggested planning for a conventional attack, U.S. officials said. But others homed in on a class of digital devices that allow remote control of services such as fire dispatch and of equipment such as pipelines. More information about those devices -- and how to program them -- turned up on al Qaeda computers seized this year, according to law enforcement and national security official

good thing I have my firewall up. I know they want all my porn.

Hell yeah tell me about it - there isn't a day goes by that i don't get an email from some turd using an aol email with a neme like Mohummed the body of which reads:

"i love you want sex fuxk send me pic you shitting"

Must be coz all their womens' faces are covered up

:1orglaugh

they are too stupid to do cyber attacks

tell that to the world trade center

No, I don't think they are technologically sophisticated enough (right now)

.. how much technology do you need to hack a webserver??

... go to openssh.org, check out the latest exploits, use the power of google to find the exploit ... enjoy your root shell.

NBC reported a littlw while ago that they know for a fact that the idiots (al Quada) have been into the Cali utility systems and grids.

Glad we are 2000 miles -----> this away! :Graucho

i think they are too dirty and smelly to use a computer

anyone who thinks that they are too stupid to make a cyber attack is obviously pretty thick themselves.

Just becuase they are from the middle east doesn't mean they are any less intelligent as human beings !!!!

After all - they WERE smart enough to get past security at the airports on S11

they WERE smart enough to take flying lessons which were PAID FOR by the US goverment

they WERE smart enough to orchestrate the attacks on S11

up until now Bin Laden HAS been smart enough to not get caught

they ARE smart enough to amass nukes and make bombs


what more proof do you need ???/
Should I also add that these peopel are FANATICAL - they are not liek the 18 year old hacker who sits there trying to hack into someone's computer to get their credit card details for a lark ... these guys are 150% dedicated to their cause.

Bruce Lee said "the most powerful weapon is a focused mind"

you don't have to be smart to do anything - you just need dedication

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