Re:LulzSec: 50 Days of Lulz statement
by ianterrell on Saturday June 25, 2011 @07:25PM
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Note that the press release was two days ago, after NATO was notified by police. AFAIK, this is the first that Lulzsec has disclosed that the NATO bookstore was hit, which means the police knew before we did. That can't be good for those behind the mask.
AFAIK, this is the first that Lulzsec has disclosed that the NATO bookstore was hit, which means the police knew before we did. That can't be good for those behind the mask.
Maybe they were seeing how long it would take for the news to come out without their help.
My guess is that they spent a few days trying to see if they can access accounts of anyone important from the NATO dump. The passwords were in plaintext.
They would only release the data to the public once they are done using it.
NATO has an ebook store? What are the hell?
Sheesh, it's described in the linked NATO press release. Nothing big, propably comparable to PACER.
> NATO’s e-Bookshop is a separate service for the public for the release of NATO information and does not contain any classified data.
That's also what strikes me in this story. Anyone can explain this?
After thinking about it for a few moments, I would guess that they largely sell books and research papers and suchlike on subjects that are of interest to those in member militaries, but aren't of sufficient general interest to make it to Amazon or otherwise.
EDIT: or, I could've spent a single moment to read the contents of the aforementioned link.
My question was badly phrased. I'm not that surprised that there are books/documents produced by NATO. I'm surprised they sell them. I think everything (public) produced by NATO should be freely accessible to everyone. This was so obvious to me that I'm surprised it's not the case, another little reminder of the world we live in.
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-40BE0A99-F4F5EB32/natolive/ne...