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RE: Catching a hacker... how much does media play upon public ignorance?

in #news8 years ago

I decided I'd go look to see if there were any other technologists talking about this, as my posts have been based upon my personal experience monthly of dealing with actual hacks.

I am just grabbing these enmass so please don't use a logical fallacy of saying "You linked a video from X, that completely discredits you." You have not done this yet, but it is a common logical fallacy I see employed. I could like a "Where's Waldo Video" and that would not discredit me. That particular video may be worthless, but that doesn't make everything else guilty by association.

My information is apparently NOT good enough, so that is why I am linking other videos. I haven't watched them all... so I may not agree with all of it.





There is more... and I don't expect you to believe it because there are a lot of people that believe or do not believe it. That is called a bandwagon fallacy when proof is based upon quantity of people.

My reasons are purely because I know what to look for with hacking. I know what type of information we can get.

Sadly it doesn't prove anything unless we literally monitor it while its happening, perform a sting, and catch them in the act.

Way too easy to fake, and IP addresses can be supplied for any country...

I don't know if these reports that a Government IP (U.S.) was involved. Keep in mind, that could still be some other country compromising another U.S. agency computer, and then hacking from there as one of it's hops. So even that can't smear the U.S. as being the source. IP Address doesn't prove anything.

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And again, you're only talking about the technical side which you also claimed can't prove much. I'm saying they have other evidence.

And I'm saying they need to put that information up.

If they don't it is agencies that have lately quite often proven "untrustworthy" telling us to "trust them".

Appeal to authority much? (Not saying YOU... this is what they are using)