Sento_Fernner

Get out your tin foil hats! If I was our government and I did this as a PR stunt, those posts would have been planned to. What could be better than making sure the 'right' people are blamed.

Skwerley

Right, I'm not under the impression that this is some kind of insane security breach. The fact is that they are actively targeting places that are exclusively populated by armed forces, with propaganda that mirrors the subverted narrative of our generation. If you don't think there's any single thing to discuss about this, that's cool, but linking to a comic that trivializes it doesn't really foster the best discussions from those who might find it interesting.

planetpiss

SEA is cool. They have an ethic that has developed more or less independently, of a desire to "correct" the record. Interesting social engineering in the hacks as well.

Mumberthrax

I did not know that was possible to do so easily. Thank you.

edit: army.mil is definitely down for me though, so i can't personally confirm that it was or was not a local js snippet.

Skwerley

Right but a local java script likely wouldn't cause the military to take down army.mil. I'm just guessing.

Apoplectic1

This seems to be a weak attempt at hacking. Why just the Army Facebook page? Why just have a dialog box pop up and say stuff? This is below amateur hour stuff.

Skwerley

It's not the army Facebook page. It's army.mil, which as far as I know is a hub for soldiers. Propaganda is what it is, directly to the soldiers. The sad part is that the words are true. The message is not.

Apoplectic1

Ah, it looked like Facebook to me at the time for some reason. Still though, those who frequent the hub are likely to be the last people to buy into any message from the Syrians (assuming this was actually them), much less messages that disparage the US government (which is conflated with the US in general a depressing amount). If anything this will just gather disdain for Syria, a country that has had our disdain for a while.

I smell something fishy here...

Stalins_Moustache

Pff. I already knew that

Skwerley

That's the sad part.

Sento_Fernner

Interesting. I wonder how long before the media blows this up.

bill.lee

My assumption is we'll see a lot more hacking attempts/sucess stories in the media. 1.) Partially because there are actual takes and the NSA/Five-Eye attempts to ensure the existence of backdoors/cover-up security has made things weaker 2.) If their going to push CISA it will be necessary to portray some present danger. One frustrating part to me is the lack of investigation about claims that the hacking occurred. For example, with the DHS hack the primary evidence that China was responsible was a DHS spokesperson and anonymous sources claiming it to be so. Some alternate sites dig into these stories but its representative, to me, of the corporate media/government relationship.

Zen0

Americans are so quick to believe whatever scapegoat the MSM pushes to take the blame for our own government's actions... whether it be chinese hackers, Islamic terrorists, or Russian Separatists.

Sento_Fernner

I wonder if it was a actually attack or not. I wouldn't be surprised if it was organized to pass more laws.

fleas

https://mobile.twitter.com/official_sea16

I'll get an archive up in few

Edit: https://archive.is/Tpy74 the archive