{"id":184716,"date":"2012-02-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/07\/am-i-the-only-one-to-call-false-flag\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:00:00","slug":"am-i-the-only-one-to-call-false-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/07\/am-i-the-only-one-to-call-false-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I the Only One to Call False Flag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Symantec with an assist from the FBI, is now alleging that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/02\/07\/pcanywhere_shenanigans\/\">a group of hackers stole the source code for pcAnywhere and attempted to shake them down for $50,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I get that.  But what I doubt is the claim, coming from either the software firm, or the boyz in the Hoover building, that the miscreants are, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/19695\/antisec_leaks_symantec_pcanywhere_source_code_after_50k_extortion_not_paid\">group of hackers associated with Anonymous and AntiSec<\/a>.&#8221;<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>As MP at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a> observes, &#8220;Anyone claiming to be raising funds in any way on behalf of Anonymous is about as kosher as bacon-wrapped shrimp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt that Symantec got hacked.  I&#8217;ve suffered with their software at a number of work places, but my sense is that any mention Anonymous is something that the FBI spent a <b>lot<\/b> of time manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it looks much better in a personnel file at annual review time.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Tin foil hat.  When I originally read the first article, there were constant mentions to anonymous, and now they are all gone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symantec with an assist from the FBI, is now alleging that a group of hackers stole the source code for pcAnywhere and attempted to shake them down for $50,000. OK, I get that. But what I doubt is the claim, coming from either the software firm, or the boyz in the Hoover building, that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1061,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-security","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}