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2002-07-30 Home Front

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-07-30 08:37 pm|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I propose the immediate creation of the 1st American Provisional Volunteer Brigade ( Hacker Division)

I too was furious when I heard about this, and I keep asking my tech breatheren " if we know that there are Al-Qaida websites and infrastructure why arent we doing something to shut them down?" why arent we as the tech community doing what we can to harass the enemy - or even the idiots who host their sites. I think Steve Gibson of GRC Research would know a thing to two about how to deny service to the goons.

the 'thugburg' listing is a good start, can we consider listing known or suspected websites for these goons? We cant wait for the FBI to find this stuff out, they are trying to make sure theyve got their pensions locked up and dibs on the best parking space at the hawaii main office. Maybe its time we used Teddy Roosevelts 'Rough Rider' approach and gathered up a bunch of the cyber cowboys and whomped a bit of cyber-ass.

For those of you afraid of letting the cyber war genie out of the bottle, Lets try to remember, these goons are trying to kill us,not people in a far away land, not just people in the uniform, but us. Our kids, husbands, wives and families, in our homes and places of work and in the most gruesome ways possible. If there was ever a justified use of the DOS attack, this would be it.

Posted by Frank Martin 2002-07-31 01:06:04|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2002-07-31 01:06:04|| Front Page Top

#2 I agree with Frank. I don't think the bureaucrats have the first idea about the power of the internet. They talk a lot, but there's damn little action.

The fact that they couldn't find an "expert" in a timely manner is disturbing enough. The fact that they are making up excuses for the lack is truly frightening. These are the guys who are supposed to protect us?!

Posted by Dee Bates 2002-07-31 04:31:26|| 2002-07-31 04:31:26|| Front Page Top

#3 I could have written another six or seven paragraphs on this subject, but I was so mad I said to hell with it and went to bed, expecting to wake up in the morning living in a caliphate. Probably the FBI was the wrong agency to contact, but they should have put the guy in touch with the guys who are the right agency.

Kaus said back in September that the whole 9-11 thing would have blown over by November. He was off by a few months, but he was right. I think the people who take this stuff seriously are in a minority and that by the time the next couple thousand casualties come we'll be regarded as (dangerous) cranks who don't understand that there are other things in life besides terrorist threats. The war on terror has already gone to being in many quarters "the war on terror," and in some "the so-called war on terror."

I'm content to be a crank. I'm now convinced there will be another mass-casualty attack. When they have the predictable congressional hearings in its wake - possibly with a new Congress because the old one will be dead - I'll be agreeing with the statements that the feds didn't take it seriously enough and I'll be disappointed when they don't fire and/or jail the sons of bitches.

I've alluded to my agnostic religious beliefs a time or two. I hereby announce that I've got religion: I'm converting to voudon as soon as I can find an FBI doll and a big enough box of pins.

Posted by Fred 2002-07-31 06:08:13|| 2002-07-31 06:08:13|| Front Page Top

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