Some thoughts on Anon and hacking and all that (as well as the culture)

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. For those of us who understand this

there is suggestive evidence in the media reports.

The strongest are two fold.

1.- The Denial of Service attack. This can easily be used to get from under your security protocols and not let you do your stuff. It also explains the problems users were having.

2.- The issuing of credentials to those who were not authorized. Translation, somebody hacked a password.

By no means am I saying it actually happened... and the only way we could really find out is if all the servers, and I mean every last one, is turned over to specialists and we have a careful examination of every drive to the last piece of data.

Now if they were planning to use it that way... they would be found. I do not think Mitt has any intention of spending a few years in the clink for vote fraud. If they were not penetrated, then they have nothing to lose but bad programing architecture. Why go through the expense of such unless you intend to sue? This level of forensics, which would give you the evidence to a level of certainty you would accept, is not cheap.

Also I will be honest, I do not think ORCA was the backbone of the operation... a phone app simply does not have the oompth to do that. And yes, it was lousy programing. It was the tip of the spear as it were though.

Also the fact that the OH servers went down at the same time they did in 2004 are just way too much of a coincidence.

But for many reasons we will not know. One party really has no reason to do the forensics and the other... well, assuming they are actually involved, have no motivation beyond what they (assuming the letter was real) already did.