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In addition to dumping name, address, phone and password information for dozens
of CSI employees and clients, our tag team of mayhem went the extra mile by
dumping email for some of the pigs ordering anti-protester gear off their s*****
website. We also hit sur-tec.com, some #ty CCTV surveillance company owned by
former FBI director Clarence M. Kelley (their password was 'government'). Do you
think they will appreciate the irony of being owned due to buying "security"
products from a compromised website? How long do you think we had your website
backdoored, capturing all incoming customers registrations and orders? 42? If
you ever get your website back up, do you think you will be anything more than a
shadow of your former self? Will your clients ever trust you again?
LONDON (AP) — A U.S. security company whose tear gas has been used against Egyptian demonstrators has become the latest victim of the Anonymous movement, hackers claimed Tuesday.
In a statement posted to the Internet, hackers claimed to have broken into Combined Systems Inc.'s website and stolen personal information belonging to clients and employees of the Jamestown, Pennsylvania-based firm. They accused the company of being run by war profiteers who sell "mad chemical weapons to militaries and cop shops around the world."
The hackers' claims could not immediately be verified, although the company's website was down Tuesday.
Messages left for Combined Systems executives Donald Smith and Jacob Kravel went unreturned. A customer service representative said senior employees were unavailable for comment because they were in a meeting.
Anonymous has claimed a series of Web attacks worldwide and has increasingly focused on security companies, law enforcement and governmental organizations. The group has often worked in tandem with the Occupy protest movement in the U.S. and has expressed solidarity with the pro-democracy activists across the Arab world.
Anonymous said it had targeted Combined Systems because it was supplying weaponry used "to repress our revolutionary movements."
Personal details released of employees and customers, emails hacked and released and website down (possibly by DDos) and fully compromised. Good work Anonymous.
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Great so innocent families, and possible children can be harassed and targeted by people....
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Originally posted by mr-lizard
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Great so innocent families, and possible children can be harassed and targeted by people....
.
Could say the EXACT same thing about the innocent families and possible children being beaten, harassed, gassed, blinded, tazed, shot and humiliated by efforts of these war-mongering companies.
Originally posted by mr-lizard
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Great so innocent families, and possible children can be harassed and targeted by people....
.
Could say the EXACT same thing about the innocent families and possible children being beaten, harassed, gassed, blinded, tazed, shot and humiliated by efforts of these war-mongering companies.
You probably won't do much damage if you did smack your head to be fair.
Take my words out of context, i'll just put them back into context. As for the answer - Take a look at the news or any crisis in the world.
Originally posted by adigregorio
Heh, pepper spray.
I agree with anon here. The familys are not innocent, they work for said company. They know what their product is being used for. And yet they continue to make it (EX: They continue to work for said company.)
Enabling is a form of abuse, just as police will not arrest their own. Which, in my opinion, makes ALL cops "bad". If a "friend" of yours is breaking the law, not stopping it is just as bad as breaking said law yourself.
So, these folks know that their product is used on the protestors. Or is someone going to say that the police use OTC sprays?
(Over The Counter)
Domestic police use of CS is legal in many countries, however, as the Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits only military use.
Bahrain
Bahrain riot police use tear gas on protesters in Manama during 2011-2012 Bahraini uprising
CS gas has been used extensively by Bahrain's police since the start of the 2011 Bahraini Uprising.[19](p260) The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry concluded that Bahrain's police used a disproportionate amount of CS gas when dispersing protests, and that in a number of situations, police fired CS gas into private homes in an "unnecessary and indiscriminate" manner.[19](p277) In one particular incident witnessed by Commission investigators, police fired "at least four tear gas canisters (each containing six projectiles) ... from a short range into the kitchen and living room of a home."[19](p261)
According to opposition activists and families of the deceased, ten individuals have died as a result of CS gas between 25 March 2011 and 17 December 2011.[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] One allegedly died from the impact of the CS gas canister[25], and the remainder are said to have died from the effects of inhaling the gas. The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry received information that a further three deaths may have been attributable to the use of CS gas.[19](pp239-40,253) Of these three, one allegedly died from the impact of the canister, and two from the effects of inhaling the gas.
[edit]Egypt
CS was widely used by Egypt's Police/Military Forces in November 2011. The CS gas used was imported from the US.[citation needed]
[edit]Cyprus
CS was first tested in the field by the British army in Cyprus in 1958. At this time it was known by the code name T792.[30]
[edit]Iraq
Iraq successfully developed CS during the 1970s and during the 1980s produced tons of the substance firstly at Salman Pak and later at al-Muthanna.[31] Then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered troops to use nerve agents against Iraqi Kurds in his own country and against Iran during the Iran–Iraq War. It is believed that Iraqi forces used multiple chemical agents during the attack, including mustard gas and the nerve agents sarin, soman, tabun and VX;[32] some sources have also pointed to the blood agent hydrogen cyanide.
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Right so the children and wives/husbands of employees should be subjected to possible violent outcome...
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Right so, tell you what, your wife is a police officer lets say, I think you and your children should be mobbed because of her chosen line of work........
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Better yet, shes not even a police officer, she just works for a company that makes things like personal protection spray, tear gas etc.........shes not even the one who uses the stuff......
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
I think you guys should have people sitting outside your house at any moment ready to pounce on you and your kids.........
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Sounds to me that those ADVOCATING what annon has done and the possible repercussions, are no better then those they accuse............Hypocrites
Listen i'm not insulting you, nor am I provoking you. You started it with your 'holding your breath until you get a decent reply' comment. But apparently you live in a world where tear gas sprouts rainbows, tazers are used for heating lunch, pepper spray is used on soup and guns don't hurt people. You're quick to cry about the offending companies families, yet you make NO reference to any hurt by such weapons. Or are you trying to pretend these companies have NO idea what tear gas does?