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Hackers seized and posted personal information of Bay Area Rapid Transit police online — carrying out another website attack against a California agency that turned off some cell phone service to thwart a potential protest.
The latest attack came as BART found itself in the middle of a debate about free speech following its decision last week to curtail wireless communication in some of its stations.
This time, hackers gained access Wednesday to the website operated by The Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Officers' Association, posting personal details of more than 100 officers. The offi
This is good..
I hope the right people got these pig's
information and go vigilante..
ONLY WAY THEY WILL LEARN!!
You spank a child when they do wrong..
Spank the police when they do!!
Originally posted by areyouserious2010
reply to post by drfeelme
This is good..
While I agree BART may have overstepped its bounds by cutting cell phone service, this is in no way good.
If you look at the situation with a level-head, you can see that the BART administration was attempting to find a creative way to block illegal protesting in its underground stations without another incident of police and protesters clashing.
It appears that it worked too because that night, there were no protests or interruptions to transit service.
That still does not excuse the fact that BART may have overstepped it's bounds by pulling a move such as this.
I hope the right people got these pig's
information and go vigilante..
ONLY WAY THEY WILL LEARN!!
You spank a child when they do wrong..
Spank the police when they do!!
You are assuming it was the BART police that decided to use this tactic. Or it was the BART police that cut the service themselves.
I could find no source that says it was the BART police that made the decision or even effected the outage. In fact, it reads like the BART administration made the decision and not the police.
Even if the BART police did make the decision, hacking the BART police union's website and revealing the personal information of a police officer is not a rational way of fighting the action.
Believe it or not, there are criminals out there that would like to seriously injure or kill a police officer or their family simply because that police officer did his or her job. That is an unfair situation in which to place a police officer in the name of protest against BART.
A proper way of dealing with the situation would be having the ACLU or other organization sue the BART administration or file an injunction in court to prevent such action from happening again. That paired with an investigation by the FCC for possible violation of law would suffice.
It appears that the ACLU will not file a law suit though.
Source
This makes one question the legality of the action. I am sure as soon as they heard of it, ACLU attorneys were all over it reviewing the laws and circumstances surrounding the action. And, based on their track record, if there was any legal basis from which to launch legal action against BART the ACLU would have made it happen.edit on 18-8-2011 by areyouserious2010 because: edit
Anonymous has not yet taken responsibility for this attack. Not sure I agree with this, but I'm glad someone is standing up against the police and BART for blocking cell phone signals.
How else can voices be heard? You can't say protest, because the signals were originally blocked to thwart a protest. At least someone is giving it back to the governemt, at least a little bit.
(from the OPs link in the above linked thread on this very site)
Supporters of Anonymous took to the streets and subways Monday to rally against BART's suspension of cell phone service during a previous protest, forcing police to shut down several BART and Muni underground stations in San Francisco.
The actions of the federal government at BART, you know that the Fed's owns it right? The Feds shut off the cell phones to stamp out a peaceful protest. Putting the public at risk, so people can't complain about them. This is a VERY serious precedent.
In May 2004, BART became the first transit system in the United States to offer cellular telephone communication to passengers of all wireless carriers on its trains underground. This is in contrast to other systems in United States, which only provide for customers of some of the major cell phone carriers.[12] Service was made available for customers of Verizon Wireless, Sprint/Nextel, AT&T Mobility, and T-Mobile in and between the four San Francisco Market Street stations from Civic Center to Embarcadero. In 2005, coverage was made available between Balboa Park and 16th St. Mission. By July 2008, the fifth cell phone network of the Bay Area, MetroPCS, was added.[13] In December 2009, service was expanded to include the Transbay Tube, thus providing continuous cell phone coverage between West Oakland and Balboa Park. Service is planned to be added in downtown Oakland, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Hills Tunnel by the end of the third quarter 2010. Coverage is expected to be added to South San Francisco and San Bruno in 2011. The goal is to provide continuous cell phone and internet service throughout the entire BART system