Who Do You Trust Less: the NSA or Anonymous? [View all]
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The Journal admits that Anonymous "has never listed a power blackout as a goal," but warned that "some federal officials believe Anonymous is headed in a more disruptive direction," anyway.
The Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account, @YourAnonNews, responded with a blunt denial. "NSA head engages in alarmist rhetoric & fear-mongering," they wrote today. "Why would Anons take out power grids when lives depend on them?"
Security expert Christopher Soghoian displayed skepticism about the NSA warning, too. "I'm confused," he tweeted, "What will happen in next year or 2 to give anonymous ability to hack power grid. Either the grid is secure or insecure."
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The overheated cyber rhetoric reminds some of the way the Bush Administration used yellowcake uranium in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
"Evidence to sustain such dire warnings is conspicuously absent," wrote George Mason's Jerry Brito and Tate Watkins last week in Wired's Threat Level. "In many respects, rhetoric about cyber catastrophe resembles threat inflation we saw in the run-up to the Iraq War. And while Congress' passing of comprehensive cybersecurity legislation wouldn't lead to war, it could saddle us with an expensive and overreaching cyber-industrial complex."
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/who-do-you-trust-less-the-nsa-or-anonymous/253399/
They either can't or won't go after China, N.Korea, and others so they will pull out all stops to capture some Anonymous hackers. Maybe they have made strides, but don't want to talk about it so Anons will serve for them in absentia.
They will parade them around as GIANT proof of their efforts against cyberattacks. Nevermind that
some countries are a much bigger threat and have been rummaging around in our cybersystems for gawd knows how long. They have also caused gawd knows what damage.
I don't trust the NSA at all. Anon may be a stateless group, but they are state sponsored spying and I probably don't want to know what else.
Delivery of 1000 pizzas and DDOS attacks vs messing with our power grids and ??? right now.
Obviously extra larges are much more dangerous.
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