Hacker bomb threat to Smed diverts plane

[Tale]

Gamers interfering with the real world - the hackers who just brought down the PSN for a day also tweeted a "bomb threat" about SOE president John Smedley's flight, causing it to be diverted.

[Evildrider]

Supposedly they are the ones pretending to be /v/ on the doxx attacks on Phil Fish and Zoe Quinn now.  Apparently Anonymous is going after them and has threatened to out them.

[Numtini]

There seems to generally be a lax attitude towards hackers by law enforcement, but a bomb threat on a plane is going to drag down the entire national security apparatus on whomever. Bad times ahead for whomever that is.

[Merusk]

There seems to generally be a lax attitude towards hackers by law enforcement,

You can't police what you don't comprehend. I think I'm being generous when I call our country 90% technology illiterate.  We know how to use devices but nothing more than that. It's boring math & geeky stuff.

[Count Nerfedalot]

Like everything else, it's what you grew up with. I work with law enforcement officers who proudly boast about being "gun people, not computer geeks".  yeah    But the younger up and comers are computer savvy and kicking the old farts' butts in productivity by taking advantage of the automation tools we're giving them.

But it'll be another decade or so before the folks comfortable with technology more complicated than a pistol and radio work their way up to actual decision making rank, so it will be at least that long before they really take it seriously from the top down.  Meanwhile the dinosaurs still call the shots and set the priorities, clueless and ignorant of how the world really works now though they may be. 

[Merusk]

Even the ones comfortable with tech don't know how it works.  They know how to use the devices, there is no further understanding.  Without that understanding there's no way of back-tracing information and rooting out where things came from and how it got there. So now those police are reliant on someone else developing a "Track the threat" app which is never going to happen.  And so you need cyberdetectives, which is a completely foreign concept to the politicians that will fund it so it may get funding by the time I'm dead.

[Ingmar]

IT forensics is actually a huge growth area right now and I think you guys are significantly underestimating the capability to track these things down.

[Numtini]

It's not just whether or not they track it down, it's also light sentences for white collar crime.

[Ingmar]

Yeah, laws have not caught up, that's certainly true. However in this particular case I think we have a number that would cover it (as you say).

[Count Nerfedalot]

There's also jurisdiction issues. It doesn't matter if you figure out the name, address, bank account # etc of the guy doing it, if he's in China or Russia or Ukraine or Syria or any of a number of other ungoverned, complicit or corrupt countries, there is exactly jack shit that you can do or will be done about it.

[Yegolev]

or Russia or Ukraine

... but you repeat yourself.

[Lakov_Sanite]

 

or Russia or Ukraine

... but you repeat yourself.

 

[Rendakor]

or Russia or Ukraine

... but you repeat yourself.

[Count Nerfedalot]

or Russia or Ukraine

... but you repeat yourself.

Hello, I'm with the Department of Redundancy Department.  Hi!

[SurfD]

or Russia or Ukraine

... but you repeat yourself.

Hello, I'm with the Department of Redundancy Department.  Hi!

Personally, I would rather be from the Ministry of Silly Walks :P

[MahrinSkel]

or Russia or Ukraine

... but you repeat yourself.

Hello, I'm with the Department of Redundancy Department.  Hi!

Personally, I would rather be from the Ministry of Silly Walks :P

Is this the room for an argument?

--Dave