Iranian Cyber Army Moves Into Botnet Renting 63
angry tapir writes "A group of malicious hackers who attacked Twitter and the Chinese search engine Baidu are also apparently running a for-rent botnet, according to new research from Seculert. The so-called Iranian Cyber Army also took credit last month for an attack on TechCrunch's European website. In that incident, the group installed a page on TechCrunch's site that redirected visitors to a server that bombarded their PCs with exploits in an attempt to install malicious software."
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The example of WW2 is totally irrelevant. With current levels of surveillance and sigint, Germany would have been stopped long before they invaded Austria. The "hi-def coverage" of Kristallnacht and other Nazi atrocities would have let everybody know what was going on, before Hitler could re-arm Germany.
Um. Kristallnacht happened months AFTER Austria was under the rule of Germany, so I'm not sure how coverage of it would have stopped the invasion of Austria.
A German Wikileaks would have ensured that did not happen.
If a German Wikileaks were allowed to exist, Germany wouldn't have been a problem in the first place. The thing is, sites like wikileaks are GREAT at stopping liberal democracies, while they tend to be pretty powerless against oppressive dictatorships.
despite their awful Governments, both the Russians and the Vietnamese preferred their awful Governments to the alternative. The American inability to understand that not everybody wants to be American is itself a cause of war.
That is, of course, complete nonsense. In Russia you had a single faction fighting under one government with support from external forces against an invader. In Vietnam you had two opposing sides fighting each other, with one receiving support from the US and the other receiving support from Russia and other communist nations. You'd have to have absolutely no understanding of either conflict in order to claim that there's any significant similarity between them. And you’d have to be a complete moron to suggest that the US actually wanted to turn the Vietnamese into Americans.