Comments on: Oz Kopz r00t-you.org bust http://www.p2pnet.net/story/26855 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Thomas Koltai http://www.p2pnet.net/story/26855/comment-page-1#comment-981602 Thomas Koltai Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:45:44 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=26855#comment-981602 Hmmmm. Not amused. The Australian Federal Computer Crime Squad are actually quite a nice bunch of guys - or so I learned in 1995 when my ISP was hacked by a "I wanna famous for 5 minutes" type of idiot. Making fun of the boys in blue - fun as it may be, is just not Kosher. After all, they are there to save you, your credit card, your bank account from being fraudulently accessed and to stop and interdict pictures of small people being distributed. If they were tracking some hackers, it was probably with good reason. The fact that they were doing so with inadequate tools is unfortunately fairly normal in an arena where the bad guys are usually (at least) one step ahead of the good guys. I certainly don't think an article detailing their shortcomings is warranted. Hmmmm. Not amused.
The Australian Federal Computer Crime Squad are actually quite a nice bunch of guys – or so I learned in 1995 when my ISP was hacked by a “I wanna famous for 5 minutes” type of idiot.

Making fun of the boys in blue – fun as it may be, is just not Kosher.

After all, they are there to save you, your credit card, your bank account from being fraudulently accessed and to stop and interdict pictures of small people being distributed.
If they were tracking some hackers, it was probably with good reason.
The fact that they were doing so with inadequate tools is unfortunately fairly normal in an arena where the bad guys are usually (at least) one step ahead of the good guys.
I certainly don’t think an article detailing their shortcomings is warranted.

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