On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 01:50:42PM -0500, Cypher wrote:
I don't think this goes far enough at all. They won't care if their information is out there. Similar actions by Anonymous have shown
Au contraire, name and shame does work for criminals. Consider drone operators or black ops being outed, or NSA cybercriminals published with full name and address. I assure they're not going to take it lightly any more than sex offenders want to see their mugs and full addresses and map locations published.
that. They use it as a base for even more propaganda to the people as to why this type of pervasive survelliance is needed.
What we /need/, IMHO, is infiltration. Straight out infiltration. We
I agree, but it's a different kettle of fish entirely. The probability overlap of being both willing to risk and able (to be hired) is negligible. Plus security measures are much higher after the last heist. Not to say impossible, but personal risk is much higher, and potential ROI is considerably lower.
need to operate just like we would in any regular battle: we need good people to find jobs within the various agencies that provide them sufficiently high level access so that they can leak information to the public. You want to scare them? Take away the security of them trusting /anybody/. Let them vet people out the ass with their useless polygraphs and psychological testing procedures. People dedicated to exposing their evil will pass them, get jobs, and leak the hell out of their information.
That would be nice. But realistically only a very rate exception. However, intelligence people do not operate in a vacuum. They use the same public infrastructure as you. They don't teleport in and out of their facilities. Collecting and crosscorrelating publicly available data is powerful while invidual risk is low to zero. Leaking large batches is safe if you follow standard security procedures.
Cypher