US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches (justice.gov) 83
An anonymous reader writes: The Islamic State hacker detained at Bukit Aman in Kuala Lumpur, has been identified as 20-year-old Kosovo student name Ardit Ferizi. The U.S. arrest warrant alleges that the Kosovo hacker executed computer attacks and committed theft violations, stealing the personally identifiable information of members of the U.S. military and federal employees. The Department of Justice warned that the leaked data was intended for the "purpose of encouraging terrorist attacks against those individuals."
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It is akin to intellectual property, so property-related words are fine to use in this context, as they always have been.
Perpetrators, of which some you no doubt support, self-describe as "pirates".
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theft /THeft/
noun
the action or crime of stealing.
"he was convicted of theft"
synonyms: robbery, stealing, thieving, larceny, thievery, shoplifting, burglary, misappropriation, appropriation, embezzlement;
Sorry, but that doesn't describe, in the slightest, the act of copying information.
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Re:Theft violations? (Score:4, Insightful)
Theft
a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
Taking something that doesn't belong to you where it does not deprive the owner of it is not theft. It could be considered copying; or copyright infringement, perhaps, but not theft per se.
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Theft:
a: the act of stealing
We don't need to go any further:
From Dictionary.com: Steal:
1) to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force:
2) to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Merriam Webster has similar definitions for steal.
The list wasn't his, and wasn't available to him. Sounds like theft to me.
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Theft:
a: the act of stealing
We don't need to go any further:
From Dictionary.com:
Steal:
1) to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force:
2) to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Nope, does not fit.
1) Owner still has the property in question (presumably a physical data storage device with data); property was not taken.
2) He acknowledged his source ("We hacked the military")
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Well just hack off his right hand, and if it wasn't theft, Allah will put it back on.
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One Man....ALONE (Score:1, Troll)
Those in the US government responsible for the weak security that allowed the 'hacking' should be lined up along the wall right next to this guy.
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Really? If you were caught advertently or inadvertently causing a security breach at your company, we could line you up along the wall as well?
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Really? If you were caught advertently or inadvertently causing a security breach at your company, we could line you up along the wall as well?
You misunderstand who I hold responsible. I am not talking about us, the insufficient technical resources who have the impossible job of securing critical infrastructure using commercial products against enemies who wield military technology against us.
We are not at fault. We are doing what we can with the resources that we have available - in other words we are not sleeping at our posts in a time of 'cyber' war.
A soldier on guard duty who falls asleep at his post in a time of war may be punished by death
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Really? If you were caught advertently or inadvertently causing a security breach at your company, we could line you up along the wall as well?
YMBNH. OP is a slashdot reader, and therefore incapable of making any sheeple-y computer-related mistake.
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Shot?
No....
But I think the FBI and the Atty General should likely bring her up on charges akin to what Gen. Petrayus (sp?) and others that have mishandled classified Federal information.
If you
Is Slashdot's Interpretation Legitimate? (Score:2)
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Mod parent up!!! The US went out of its way in making an enemy out of Serbia - a country that had never been hostile to the US, and backing Muslims of both Bosnia and Kosovo against Serbia.
Now, one would think that this would make the Muslims friends of the US, and the Serbs the enemies, right? Logically, we should have seen anti-US terror acts originating from Belgrade, right? But guess what? It has been the Muslims from anywhere and everywhere who've plotted against the US. It was a Bosnian who
Now that he's been charged.. (Score:2)
Does it mean he has rights granted by the constitution or will he be held in perpetuum as an enemy combatant?
Re: Now that he's been charged.. (Score:1)
The Republicans treat us worse than terrorists. Worse than terrorists.
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Interesting how this all happens in big inner cities controlled by democrats but it is the republicans behind it. No true Scotsman or too much scotch?
Just curious.
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I'm surprised he's turning on the US considering the bombing campaign NATO conducted on the Serbs much to the advantage of the Muslim Kosovars who make up 95% of the population. Guess he was too young to remember that....
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If you are interested, unblurred photos are here [lajmi.net].
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They say the exact same about us
Re:My Thoughts (Score:5, Interesting)
And there are people around the world who believe that the Americans are terrorists for invading countries, torturing people, and doing things like blowing up hospitals. And they are taking your advice and killing the terrorists.
BTW, the Russians aren't targeting ISIS. They are leaving that to the others. The Russians are bombing the rebels who were allied with the US that are going after Assad. The idea is that Russia and Assad can take out Assad's enemies while the rest of the world can work on ISIS. Then when Assad has complete control of Syria again then he can concentrate on ISIS.
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Where do think that ISIL's gets all it arms and Toyota trucks?
From ignorant ACs like you. They aren't getting them directly from the US. Many of the weapons and materials were taken from the Iraq military when they pissed their pants and ran.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
Security forces retreated from the Malaab area of Ramadi at 1:30 p.m., abandoning about 60 military vehicles, including military-grade Humvees, said Col. Nasser al-Alwani of the Ramadi police force. About half of the abandoned vehicles were sent by the U.S.-backed government on Saturday to reinforce the neighborhood, he added.
https://news.vice.com/article/... [vice.com]
Police and soldiers stripped out of their uniforms and abandoned their equipment on the road as they fled.
http://www.rferl.org/content/i... [rferl.org]
One day before the Iraqi soldier gave his account to RFE/RL on May 25, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter accused Iraqi forces of showing "no will to fight" and having "failed to fight" in Ramadi despite "vastly outnumber[ing]" the enemy, retreating and leaving behind large numbers of U.S.-supplied vehicles, including tanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
After the end of the war, both the CIA and the U.S. State Department were tasked with continuing to identify and collect arms that had flooded the country during the war, particularly shoulder-fired missiles taken from the arsenal of the Gaddafi regime,[32][33] as well as securing Libyan chemical weapons stockpiles, and helping to train Libya's new intelligence service.[29]
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Multiple anonymous sources reported that the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was used by the CIA as a cover to smuggle weapons from Libya to anti-Assad rebels in Syria.[30]:56[34][36][37][38] Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh cites an anonymous former senior Defense Department intelligence official, saying "The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms. It had no real political role." The attack allegedly brought an end to the purported U.S. involvement, but did not stop the smuggling according to Hersh's source.[39] In January 2014, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence cast doubt on this alleged U.S. involvement and reported that "All CIA activities in Benghazi were legal and authorized. On-the-record testimony establishes that the CIA was not sending weapons ... from Libya to Syria, or facilitating other organizations or states that were transferring weapons from Libya to Syria."[40]
Care to try again? The CIA was collecting arms, not distributing, unless you subscribe to the local Tin Foil Anonymous.
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That's right - Israel and Syria (Score:2)
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http://www.france24.com/en/20141224-west-underestimates-danger-jurgen-todenhofer-embedded-islamic-state-syria-iraq/
German journalist Jurgen Todenhofer, who recently spent 10 days with Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria, tells FRANCE 24 they buy Western weapons from Syrian rebels and envision a future that includes a massive "religious cleansing"
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Todenhofer went on to say that the IS militants are being armed by the West – if only indirectly – as Western moves to arm moderate Syrian rebels have backfired.
“They buy the weapons that we give to the Free Syrian Army, so they get Western weapons – they get French weapons I saw German weapons, I saw American weapons,” he said.
“The best seller of weapons is the Free Syrian Army, which is financed by NATO, financed probably also by France, but at least by the United States.”
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It depends on how massively you bomb the area.
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We aren't great guys either, but Putin is fighting for Assad, who can compete with Isis evil for evil. The US doesn't want ISIS taken out, because ISIS will cost Putin and the Iranians a lot to defeat. US just doesn't want ISIS overrunning Baghdad.
Send in the drones... (Score:2)