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Re: [LUG] us military: wget arcane espionage toolkit

 

On 06/06/13 09:56, lug@xxxxxx wrote:
> >from the prosecution's opening statement in bradley manning's witch
>> tri---er, court martial (2013-06-03)*,**:
>>
>>> The evidence will show that PFC Manning's actions were not
>>> calculated [inaudible] of documents onesies and twosies. These were
>>> massive, massive downloads aided by PFC Manning's mastery of an
>>> unauthorized software program known as WGet, packaged and out the
>>> door to WikiLeaks in a few hours in some cases.
>> roflmao at "mastery", "unauthorized" (among other aspects of the
>> orcish reasoning on display).
>>
> There's was another case last week of some journalists being accused
> of hacking who used wget to pull down information from a public files
> area on a website.
>
> Who knew that wget was so l33t.
>
> Kevin
>


Good god, imagine what's going to happen if they find out about curl!

Regards

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