{"id":7496,"date":"2017-04-12T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:06:37","slug":"psa-e-shielder-security-is-a-gang-of-idiotic-scum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7496","title":{"rendered":"PSA: &#8220;E-Shielder Security&#8221; and &#8220;CyberSec Buzz&#8221; are gangs of idiotic scum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a public service announcement: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-shielder.com\/\">E-Shielder Security<\/a>, describing itself as &#8220;leading importers and suppliers of high end electronic technology solution systems&#8221; is a gang of idiotic scum.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday they posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/eshielder.com\/2017\/04\/12\/hacktivists-on-the-rampage-in-2017\/?doing_wp_cron=1491997651.2262818813323974609375\">Hacktivists on the rampage in 2017<\/a>, which largely reproduced my <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7478\">Hacker Archetypes<\/a> post.<\/p>\n<p>They did so in obvious ignorance of who the hackers I was referring to actually are, going off on a tear about &#8220;hacktivists&#8221;.  That term is, in general, a flare-lit clue that the person using it is either an idiot or a vandal trying to cloak destructive behavior in respectability &#8211; real hackers are proud of what they do, take responsibility for it, and don&#8217;t wear masks (with a limited exception for those under direct threat from totalitarian governments). In this case it was clearly idiocy.<\/p>\n<p>Mere idiocy turned into something nastier. I left a comment on the post pointing out their error, something I had clear standing to do as the author of the article they were quoting.<\/p>\n<p>The comment was suppressed.  That was scummy behavior; thus &#8220;idiotic scum&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t do business with these clowns.  Warn your friends.  Propagate this widely, the clowns deserve some serious reputation damage.<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: Title amended because the article may have originated at <a href=\"http:\/\/cybersec.buzz\/hacktivists-on-the-rampage-in-2017\/\">CyberSec Buzz<\/a>, another &#8216;security&#8217; blog run by drivelheads who obviously have no fscking idea what they&#8217;re talking about.  It has been taken down where I originally found it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a public service announcement: E-Shielder Security, describing itself as &#8220;leading importers and suppliers of high end electronic technology solution systems&#8221; is a gang of idiotic scum. Yesterday they posted a Hacktivists on the rampage in 2017, which largely reproduced my Hacker Archetypes post. They did so in obvious ignorance of who the hackers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7496\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PSA: &#8220;E-Shielder Security&#8221; and &#8220;CyberSec Buzz&#8221; are gangs of idiotic scum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacker-culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}