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2008-10-20 Home Front: WoT

Al-Qaida Still Offline for 'Technical Reasons'

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Posted by Bobby 2008-10-20 06:07|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Allah does not seem willing to fix this problem quickly. Does this mean that AQ is a little out of favor with Allah and He is showing his displeasure?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-10-20 07:45|| 2008-10-20 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 not only the Chinese can do cyber atacks. Remeber we have the guy who invented the internet on our side (most of the time ) al gore

Posted by chris 2008-10-20 08:06|| 2008-10-20 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Usually this is the work of independents, as most of the professional agencies would rather observe and troll. On the other hand, agency mentality too often allows activity to continue beyond that useful purpose and ignores the need to act.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-20 08:29|| 2008-10-20 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder if a "rogue" JDAM was involved?

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-20 11:20|| 2008-10-20 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 A devious person would bring up a honeypot server as bait for all those jihadis desperate for infidel-hating goodness.

Posted by SteveS 2008-10-20 11:36|| 2008-10-20 11:36|| Front Page Top

#6 A Hellfire through the main server would qualify as a technical problem.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-10-20 14:22|| 2008-10-20 14:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Of course, none of the guys at Fort Meade had anything to do with the servers going down, no, no, no...

If there had been a plan in place to do something drastic on the 7th anniversary of 9/11, and smashing the servers used by AlQaida would either delay or abort the attack, then it's a GOOD thing they crashed. And yes, Haliburton Server Solutions Division MAY have had a hand in it, if that's the "solution" agreed upon.

Off-topic, a friend of mine was recruited by ITT a couple of years ago to conduct cyber-attacks against a wide variety of different types of servers, in a laboratory environment. The idea was to discover how servers were vulnerable, and to take corrective action to end or reduce the vulnerability. He's still working for them, so he must be doing something that works.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-10-20 15:13|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-20 15:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe they're using a different communications medium now, like phlogiston.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-10-20 15:31|| 2008-10-20 15:31|| Front Page Top

#9 We've got the server rooms; they've got the mud huts.

Posted by Darrell 2008-10-20 16:42|| 2008-10-20 16:42|| Front Page Top

#10 33yo twins, from their Mom's basement, with a blade salvaged from a Wachovia dumpster, trying to be patriotic under the slacker radar. "Shit, piss, motherfucker! It worked brother! Pass me that last slice."

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-10-20 19:21|| 2008-10-20 19:21|| Front Page Top

#11 I'll bet someone's redirected their DNS ownership records.

I wonder is it now a round robin to the NSA, MI6 honeypot etc.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-10-20 19:55|| 2008-10-20 19:55|| Front Page Top

#12 IT outsourced to Geek Squad...

Posted by Capsu 78 2008-10-20 23:17|| 2008-10-20 23:17|| Front Page Top

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