Cole Stryker, author of “Epic Win For Anonymous,” said today’s hacking was likely more embarrassing than harmful to the Chicago Police.
“It’s an egg on the face type situation,” he said. “It’s embarassing when the people who are supposed to keep you safe are so easily victimized by a prankish attack like this, however I don’t think it’s concerning them.”
Protesters Wage Cyber Attack on Chicago Police, NATO Websites - ABC News
Does any serious education happen at these conferences? Can creative inspiration be commoditized? Will a phone’s worth of apps save the world? Sadly no. But certainly there are less noble ways to spend $395. If it makes you feel good about the world, even if only for an afternoon, offering some brief respite from the fire hose of pessimism and misery the rest of life shoots at your chest all day every day, well, gee whiz, why not?
The Idea Con: My Trip to a Mental Day Spa for Techno-Intellectuals | Motherboard
I need to read Cole Stryker’s book.
Funny Shit I Learned at the SXSWi Panel on Misusing the Internet - Boston Phoenix
His arrest is likely to put a chill on the hacktivist movement, said Cole Stryker, an author who writes about Anonymous. “It will be difficult for Anons to work collaboratively now that their ranks are undoubtedly infiltrated by feds, security contractors and rival hackers,” Mr. Stryker said in an interview Tuesday. Mr. Stryker noted that, in the past, LulzSec and Anonymous attacks have typically required a critical mass of participants to succeed. A so-called distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS attack, in which hackers clog a site with bogus data requests until it crashes, requires that hundreds, if not thousands, of people participate.
What Do the LulzSec Arrests Mean for Anonymous? - NYTimes.com
1Anonymous is a handful of geniuses surrounded by a legion of idiots,” said Cole Stryker, an author who has researched the movement. “You have four or five guys who really know what they’re doing and are able to pull off some of the more serious hacks, and then thousands of people spreading the word, or turning their computers over to participate in a DDoS attack.
Attack on Vatican Web Site Offers View of Hacker Group’s Tactics - NYTimes.com
