Asymmetrical Battlefield ⇥

Brad Landers:

What’s interesting is that the sophistication of the attack is immaterial to the fact that they achieved a significant security disclosure. You don’t have to be a sophisticated hacker to perpetrate meaningful hacks, you just have to be more sophisticated than the target of your attack.

This is what makes the Anonymous movement so fascinating to me. In Anonymous culture, being “dox’d” is a big deal. That’s kind of end-game stuff for hackers. Once you’re outed, you’re out. Coincidentally, the same rules apply for espionage.

What makes this doubly interesting is that Anonymous is made up of young, tech-savvy individuals. The establishment (government, large corporations, etc) increasingly rely on tools that are created, or at least well understood, by their attackers.