News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by pjc50 on Sunday March 29, 2015 @10:22AM (#9284898)
""Cybercrime"" and ""cyberterrorism"" resources are only deployed (a) for securing more funding (b) for expanding US surveillance or sometimes (c) on behalf of big donors like the copyright industry.

The US has no interest in saying "international cyberattack should be illegal" because then other countries might insist that it stop. They could go for a trade war escalation, but that would at some point have Apple as a casualty.

Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by diminoten on Sunday March 29, 2015 @10:57AM (#9285029)
That's not true at all, what the hell?

Realize you're talking to folks who do this kind of stuff for a living, rather than just the random Internet denizens of most other websites.

The FBI will regularly inform and assist companies who've been breached, for example. The US government is very interested in protecting US companies.

That said, they don't quite have any guidance from congress on how to do that, so right now the assistance is limited. It is most certainly there, however, and your tinfoil-hat nonsense doesn't really fly.

Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by srj on Sunday March 29, 2015 @01:48PM (#9285718)
When I was an admin of an IRC network we regularly reported large scale DDoS attacks to an FBI agent assigned to us. He didn't care. Some of those attacks took the network down for a while and resulted in many users moving to other networks. In at least two cases we even figured out the identity, address, and phone numbers of the people doing it and there was no movement on it.

Then one day one of the people we had the identity of boasted on how he had briefly brought down the website of one of the democratic primary candidates. We forwarded that information and our case was reassigned to another agent and the person was arrested immediately. I absolutely think it's true that the US government is only interested in protecting established and powerful figures. I suspect the reason is career driven - defending the little guys isn't glamorous and probably has no promotion impact.

Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by nolanhanz on Sunday March 29, 2015 @04:24PM (#9286352)
Its a matter of finance more than anything - if the people of the United States are paying you to protect national interests that is exactly what they should be doing. I can't speak for your specific situation but my time on the internet leads me to believe they have bigger fish to fry. Sorry though man I know that had to suck.
Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by jebblue on Sunday March 29, 2015 @04:04PM (#9286283)
How did the new agent perform for other cases? Was he/she more attentive than the first agent?
Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by RogerL on Sunday March 29, 2015 @12:11PM (#9285342)
Please don't write such baseless assertions; we are trying to keep the post quality high here.

Your other responder works in this field, and I have been on the other side (worked for a company that got this sort of help). We also regularly had the FBI come in and give talks on the sorts of things they were working on in this space.