That SHOULD be a shocking headline but… have any awareness of the various hacker orgs out there and this doesn’t even move the needle.
That said: I always have mixed thoughts when it comes to hacks like this. Because governments and the like do a lot of REALLY heinous shit and getting awareness of the particularly fucked up stuff is important.
But hacker orgs tend to not work with journalists who understand how to vet and redact things. So you might get something “juicy” and then a LOT of information that the general public will never read but OTHER organizations will and will use to endanger people who actually aren’t being monsters (or are possibly being coerced into supporting occupation forces).
I personally blame that more on wikileaks and “The Media”
Wikileaks was very much put forward as paragons of journalism and so forth. And ignoring the editorialized headlines for a lot of their “leaks” (and I think a few were determined to be outright intentionally mislabeling footage?), they very much were not “journalists”, They basically just put anything and everything they were given online. Whether it is footage of US soldiers committing war crimes or the secret handshake of a sorority (seriously…). They did a lot of good and a LOT of bad.
She… probably should have done a better job of pre-filtering what she provided. But she also, likely, thought she was giving a CNN journalist the information rather than the equivalent of a kid on reddit.
That SHOULD be a shocking headline but… have any awareness of the various hacker orgs out there and this doesn’t even move the needle.
That said: I always have mixed thoughts when it comes to hacks like this. Because governments and the like do a lot of REALLY heinous shit and getting awareness of the particularly fucked up stuff is important.
But hacker orgs tend to not work with journalists who understand how to vet and redact things. So you might get something “juicy” and then a LOT of information that the general public will never read but OTHER organizations will and will use to endanger people who actually aren’t being monsters (or are possibly being coerced into supporting occupation forces).
Hacker color schemes these days:
⬛🟥
⬛🟩
⬛🩷🟪
⬛🟥🟨🟩🟦🟪🩷
Did you think Nato would store nukular codes on their Neocities website?
Chelsea Manning was a prime example of this.
I personally blame that more on wikileaks and “The Media”
Wikileaks was very much put forward as paragons of journalism and so forth. And ignoring the editorialized headlines for a lot of their “leaks” (and I think a few were determined to be outright intentionally mislabeling footage?), they very much were not “journalists”, They basically just put anything and everything they were given online. Whether it is footage of US soldiers committing war crimes or the secret handshake of a sorority (seriously…). They did a lot of good and a LOT of bad.
She… probably should have done a better job of pre-filtering what she provided. But she also, likely, thought she was giving a CNN journalist the information rather than the equivalent of a kid on reddit.
Hey I’m curious what the bad things they did were? I just know them to have revealed evidence of heinous war crimes committed by the USA.