Según el diario The Guardian, uno de cada cuatro hackers en USA es un informador del FBI.
Se queda corto, a no ser que hable también de los que están estudiando el curso CCC de hacker.
Los buenos, están totalmente fichados y/o trabajando ya para el gobierno.
Según The Guardian,
The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established.
(...)Kevin Poulsen, senior editor at Wired magazine, believes the collective is classically vulnerable to infiltration and disruption. "We have already begun to see Anonymous members attack each other and out each other's IP addresses. That's the first step towards being susceptible to the FBI."
Barrett Brown, who has acted as a spokesman for the otherwise secretive Anonymous, says it is fully aware of the FBI's interest. "The FBI are always there. They are always watching, always in the chatrooms. You don't know who is an informant and who isn't, and to that extent you are vulnerable."
Por otro lado, según la revista Pc Mag, es demasiada casualidad la cantidad de hackers que han aparecido últimamente, y deberíamos preguntarnos por qué se les da tanta publicidad desde la prensa. Se preguntan ¿No será un "atentado de bandera falsa", magnificando la amenaza de los hackers, haciéndolos horrendos para el público, para facilitar al Congreso (de USA, se entiende) la aprobación de medidas en contra de internet, y de paso actuar contra aquellos que interesen al gobierno USA (léase Tunez, Iran, etc...)
Según la revista:
Out of the blue, Citigroup was hacked, then the CIA, and then the FBI and other groups were hacked. Now I'm finding this a little odd and wondering who is being set up here. Supposedly, some of the hacks of government agencies stem from the arrest of a few hackers in Europe. This is an attempt to make the hackers appear to be online versions of Hezbollah, as there are retaliatory attacks reported. You know, the way terrorists would do it.
It's all possible, but I'm suspicious of the whole scene. These hackers, who are normally casual in their approach, are made to look like bomb throwing Trotskyites from the 1920s, each wielding a Molotov cocktail and out to overthrow the government.
This above mental image, of course, is for public benefit. By making any one of these hackers appear to be a horrendous threat to public safety, a number of initiatives can be rushed through Congress. All sorts of onerous laws will be passed, which probably will not affect the scene at all but will allow more government intrusion into the Internet. It will become illegal to sell any programming tools that can be used by a hacker, despite the usefulness of these tools to security experts. It will also become a felony to attempt to deconstruct a password or enter a system for whatever reason.
I have predicted for years that at some point people are going to have to be registered and licensed to use the Internet at all. You can see it coming as clear as day. These hackers, of course, have to be stopped, and this is how they'll do it.
There are events in history known as false flag events. These are staged by a government usually to distress the public, so the government can do something that the public would otherwise disapprove.
The U.S. is notorious for a couple of these, including Lyndon Johnson's phony Gulf of Tonkin "event" to start the Viet Nam War in 1964. This was deemed necessary to begin a full scale war with public approval and is now well documented as a false flag event. It never happened.
Many believe that the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana in 1889, which triggered the Spanish-American War, was also a staged event. This was never fully proven but always suspected.
Most political junkies are always aware of these possibilities. But, as far as I know, nobody has ever really considered the fact that any number of hacker attacks could be false flag events or, in other words, fake. The way the news is covering hacking lately, I suspect we are about to see a big one soon. A whopper that will upset everyone.
The end result will be a huge sweep of every hacker and would-be hacker with a grateful public cheering on the government. The hackers will not know what hit them, as they are arrested in a huge sweep. Give the possibility of this scenario about a year and see if I'm right.
Aquí el comunicado de prensa de la CIA/Anonymous sobre Irán. El comunicado vale para cualquiera de las dos organizaciones