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Al Qassam and videos on youtube
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:16:33 -0500
So the question is: Can internet hacktivism cause a nation state to kindly ask Google to remove a video that Muslims hate, the same way Google removes known terrorist videos or videos of your baby dancing to Britney Spears tunes under copyright reasoning. So far the answer is "no". But the Al Qassam team <http://pastebin.com/u/QassamCyberFighters> (or as Leiberman likes to say: Team Iran) is going to try. It's a good proof of concept. The next test is: "Can a cyber threat to America's banking industry force the US to remove sanctions against Iranian banks?", which is probably why nobody has blinked on the whole video on YouTube thing. Of course, the Al Qassam team says they are not Iranian, etc. But their choice of targets, methodology of proportional response <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMVtP1CbOM> (a very nation state concept), hatred of the "Zionists", and high quality PR-grade English would indicate that they are. Also, Leiberman says they are, and he, unlike me, gets briefed by DIRNSA. The trick really is that the next step up from DDoS is "Saudi Aramco"-style rming of an entire bank. But that's a step the Iranians (and dudes, correct me if I'm wrong :>) don't really want to take. If we do see that happen, my guess is that we'll see it against a very small bank initially, as a proof of concept. Then the scary times start. -dave -- INFILTRATE - the world's best offensive information security conference. April 2013 in Miami Beach www.infiltratecon.com
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