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web.archive.org A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off His Mask

As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.

This article is indistinguishable from satire. I know that's cliche, but this is honest-to-god something someone here would have banged out in an afternoon as a niche joke. I don't have anything clever to say, you just have to read it.

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When Russians/Chinese/Koreans hack countries: cyberterrorism, act of war, evil, endangering lives of others, AAAAAAAAAA!
When Americans hack countries: for peace, freedom, fighting evildoers and villains.

First pic, and there it is, a Guy Fawkes mask.
- They literally talk about him "taking off the mask." This is what I mean.
  
  Yeah, I was more pointing out how the Guy Fawkes mask always shows up among ''anti-authoritarians''/hackers/color revolutions, etc, so it's become for me an immediate sign that things are not good.

“Both the NSA and the DOD have a ton of talented hackers, yet when it comes to actually performing disruptive cyber operations, for some reason we as a country are just frozen and scared,” Caceres says. “And that needs to change.”
healthcare pls
[The hacker and his handler] spent much of the past two years advocating within the US government for that far-more-brazen approach to state-sponsored cyberattacks. They describe it as a special forces model: single hackers or small teams carrying out nimble, targeted digital disruptions, in contrast to the US’s traditionally slower and more bureaucratic approach to cyberwarfare.
Yes we need script kiddie cyber death squads.

This really is gold, thank you for sharing. "Not only would indiscriminate attacks on civilians be arguably immoral, she points out, they’d potentially invite other countries to do the same, or worse."

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