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Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack
From: TheGesus <thegesus () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:26:21 -0500
On 12/3/06, Dave No, not that one Korn <davek_throwaway () hotmail com> wrote:
TheGesus wrote:More and more people are hearing the recommendation to "withdraw a little extra cash out of the banks" to prepare for cyber attacks. If as many as 1.32% of bank depositors take their advice and withdraw all their money, the banks will close their doors. Al Qaeda threatens to disrupt the electronic bank payments system.And YOU'RE MAKING IT HAPPEN! DUH!This system contributes about 90% of the US money supply. Without it, 10% of the money supply (the cash & coin) must take over the work of the other 90%. Conclusion: Withdraw and stockpile some cash now. Shoot for at least three months' cash requirements. Don't wait. Start now.AQ don't intend to "attack the banking system". They plan to get paranoids, suckers, and conspiracy-theorists like you to do their dirty work for them. They just need to spread a rumour and then sit back and watch as all you "loyal patriots" trash your own country out of fear and cowardice. ObTopic: Sounds like a social engineering attack to me; attempting to manipulate the users of a service into acting as an implicit ddos against it. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
I was only quoting (with a little creative editing) the late(?), great(?) Paul Milne of Y2K disaster fame. There's a goldmine in there... http://groups.google.com/groups/search?lr=&safe=off&num=10&q=bank+panic+author%3Apaul+milne&safe=off&qt_s=Search "If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you're toast" _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 01)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack SDALAN04 (Dec 01)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack SDALAN04 (Dec 01)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack TheGesus (Dec 01)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack Matthew Flaschen (Dec 02)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack Dude VanWinkle (Dec 03)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack mikeiscool (Dec 03)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack Dude VanWinkle (Dec 03)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack TheGesus (Dec 01)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack mikeiscool (Dec 03)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack Dave "No, not that one" Korn (Dec 03)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack TheGesus (Dec 04)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack Zub By (Dec 04)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack Dave "No, not that one" Korn (Dec 12)
- Re: Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack chedder1 (Dec 01)