Jack Recider

So while all this started out as fun and a challenge, over time it morphed. I mean, how can one feel this kind of power and then watch the news and see everything wrong in the world and decide not to use this power to make change? I mean, it really is like a superpower to just topple over a computer or get inside a system that isn't yours. With great power comes great responsibility, right?

What? What the hell? They made a list of people to hack into that were high-profile members of the intelligence community? This just went up to 11. I... Okay, at this point... I mean, I'm fascinated by this because I'm always surprised how high-profile people in government pretty much dox themselves, right?

What? What the hell? They made a list of people to hack into that were high-profile members of the intelligence community? This just went up to 11. I... Okay, at this point... I mean, I'm fascinated by this because I'm always surprised how high-profile people in government pretty much dox themselves, right?

They give their real name and talk on TV, and they have a phone number to their office, email address, physical address. All this stuff is public information. We know who their boss is. Chances are there's a Wikipedia article on them listing all this, or there might even be a whole biography written about them.

They give their real name and talk on TV, and they have a phone number to their office, email address, physical address. All this stuff is public information. We know who their boss is. Chances are there's a Wikipedia article on them listing all this, or there might even be a whole biography written about them.

And yeah, I always wondered, doesn't that make them extremely vulnerable targets for attacks? Oh, I am so glued to the story right now.

And yeah, I always wondered, doesn't that make them extremely vulnerable targets for attacks? Oh, I am so glued to the story right now.

Let's back up a second. At this point, Default has left AnonSec, which didn't affiliate itself with Anonymous at all. In fact, they were anti-Anonymous, but Anonymous seemed to get credit for everything they did since it was called AnonSec. He was sick of that and left. But he knew people in this little pocket of the internet. And a group that he thought was doing some cool shit was CWA.

Let's back up a second. At this point, Default has left AnonSec, which didn't affiliate itself with Anonymous at all. In fact, they were anti-Anonymous, but Anonymous seemed to get credit for everything they did since it was called AnonSec. He was sick of that and left. But he knew people in this little pocket of the internet. And a group that he thought was doing some cool shit was CWA.

And this stood for Crackas with Attitude. And the head of CWA was a guy named Cracka.

And this stood for Crackas with Attitude. And the head of CWA was a guy named Cracka.

So he starts hanging out with these folks from CWA and joins in on their hacktivism.

So he starts hanging out with these folks from CWA and joins in on their hacktivism.

's intelligence agency like this and expect everything to be okay. I mean, I don't care how good your OPSEC is. Hide behind five VPNs. Use your neighbor's Wi-Fi. Use Tor. Move to an underground bunker. It doesn't matter. If you make it personal, they'll make it personal. They will find you. But at the same time, defaults with seeing stupid stuff on the news. Listen, this is James Clapper.

's intelligence agency like this and expect everything to be okay. I mean, I don't care how good your OPSEC is. Hide behind five VPNs. Use your neighbor's Wi-Fi. Use Tor. Move to an underground bunker. It doesn't matter. If you make it personal, they'll make it personal. They will find you. But at the same time, defaults with seeing stupid stuff on the news. Listen, this is James Clapper.

The Snowden leaks. clearly proved otherwise. The NSA was grabbing metadata off of millions of Americans' phone calls. This is spying on regular, good-standing Americans. And to hear James Clapper say otherwise meant that some were accusing him of criminal perjury, lying under oath, This enraged default and cracker. Our leaders were caught in a lie. What more can we find on them?

The Snowden leaks. clearly proved otherwise. The NSA was grabbing metadata off of millions of Americans' phone calls. This is spying on regular, good-standing Americans. And to hear James Clapper say otherwise meant that some were accusing him of criminal perjury, lying under oath, This enraged default and cracker. Our leaders were caught in a lie. What more can we find on them?

But Krakow was the one who acted on this. I believe he acted alone, actually. Krakow got into the online account for James Clapper's internet and phone service. Somehow, from there, he was able to get Clapper's wife's social security number and posted that publicly. Then he routed all the calls coming into James' phone to a free Palestine hotline. Krakow posted proof of all this to Twitter.

But Krakow was the one who acted on this. I believe he acted alone, actually. Krakow got into the online account for James Clapper's internet and phone service. Somehow, from there, he was able to get Clapper's wife's social security number and posted that publicly. Then he routed all the calls coming into James' phone to a free Palestine hotline. Krakow posted proof of all this to Twitter.

James Clapper was actually not the first person from the intelligence community that CWA hacked into. Their first was Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson. Krakow got into his Comcast account somehow. And Default was seeing all this and chatting more with Krakow.