The Most Difficult Interview I Ever Watched
The biggest story in IT Security today (or even the last three months) is Anonymous. I’ve enjoyed Anonymous immensely, I think especially since they put up their “Message to Scientology” video. Now they’ve really entered the public eye with their take-down of HBGary CEO Aaron Barr (I always get his name mixed up in my head with Aaron Burr). I find the whole saga very inspiring, and will no doubt reference it in all my books twenty years from now when I’m an internationally-renowned InfoSec expert.
Today I watched a video of a live radio interview between a representative of the much-hated Westboro Baptist Church and an individual representing Anonymous, during which Anonymous apparently hacks WBC’s website during the interview. While this interview is a very interesting merger of two very hot-button items right now, it was still immensely difficult to make it to the part where the hack takes place (about 8:26) due to the amazing irritating nature of the foul-mouthed woman involved. Can you imagine anybody having any discussion about anything with such an individual? Forget about waterboarding: put the terrorists in a room with her and make them talk about politics or something.
The only other mildly irritating thing was the Anonymous rep’s obviously fake accent. I have spent plenty of idle time on voice-communication servers playing this game or that game, and that majority of the teen/20-something nerds who populate such games sound exactly like that guy (sans the faux accent). More thoughts on the Aaron Barr thing later.
