http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/polish-government-under-ddos-anonymous-acta-up-again/ Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson blogs about current security issues. Thu, 17 May 2012 01:17:27 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/polish-government-under-ddos-anonymous-acta-up-again/comment-page-1/#comment-10802 Marek Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:22:42 +0000 http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/?p=3253#comment-10802 Well, the PM now decided (possibly to demonstrate they don't bow to threats) that they _will_ sign ACTA after all. At the same time letting his ministers come up with mutually contradictory statements that yes, there was ample consultation so sod off / no, we're oh so very sorry there was no proper consultation, we will try to make up for it. Now. We always meant to, honest. Essentially, almost everybody is pissed off, not about actual ACTA (not many people bother to read the actual text), but because it was such a blatant case of trying to to bury the bad news (does it sound familiar?), by hiding the issue at some obscure places (page 40 of the fishery commission report, and by refusing (apparently the same minister who claimed consultation documents were circulated) to make the text of the agreement accessible. Now of course everybody tries to profit from the whole uproad - the media, who had previously kept shtum about ACTA now masturbate over the issue, the opposition, raining sh... on government when most of their MPs actually voted FOR the ACTA in the autumn. And the government trying to figure out, how to get out of the smoking pile so as not to leave a lasting impression. Lasting, that is, until the next elections. But overall, they should be grateful for this "attack", really. After all, if you get people as administrators of the PM website (cuddly cuddly) to use "admin1" as a password, the bells are loud and clear. And it makes you start wondering, what the Chinese (and no doubt Poland's best allies too) might have scraped from those pl.gov systems by now anyway. And there is a vague possibility that the Anonymous were just primed to make this whole issue so.. public. Perhaps by some of the organizations which felt that their requests for consultation was ignored and they felt powerless to extract any meaningful response from the gov side by other means. Well, if so, it seems to work. Well, the PM now decided (possibly to demonstrate they don’t bow to threats) that they _will_ sign ACTA after all. At the same time letting his ministers come up with mutually contradictory statements that yes, there was ample consultation so sod off / no, we’re oh so very sorry there was no proper consultation, we will try to make up for it. Now. We always meant to, honest.
Essentially, almost everybody is pissed off, not about actual ACTA (not many people bother to read the actual text), but because it was such a blatant case of trying to to bury the bad news (does it sound familiar?), by hiding the issue at some obscure places (page 40 of the fishery commission report, and by refusing (apparently the same minister who claimed consultation documents were circulated) to make the text of the agreement accessible. Now of course everybody tries to profit from the whole uproad – the media, who had previously kept shtum about ACTA now masturbate over the issue, the opposition, raining sh… on government when most of their MPs actually voted FOR the ACTA in the autumn. And the government trying to figure out, how to get out of the smoking pile so as not to leave a lasting impression. Lasting, that is, until the next elections.
But overall, they should be grateful for this “attack”, really. After all, if you get people as administrators of the PM website (cuddly cuddly) to use “admin1″ as a password, the bells are loud and clear. And it makes you start wondering, what the Chinese (and no doubt Poland’s best allies too) might have scraped from those pl.gov systems by now anyway.
And there is a vague possibility that the Anonymous were just primed to make this whole issue so.. public. Perhaps by some of the organizations which felt that their requests for consultation was ignored and they felt powerless to extract any meaningful response from the gov side by other means. Well, if so, it seems to work.

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