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Is this being reported on by anyone other than WSJ? I don't like paywalls.

mtgx 11y ago
Yes. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/junaid-hussain-british-hacker-for-isis-believed-killed-in-us-airstrike http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/junaid-hussain-... Apparently it didn't take Obama long to do another 180 on this issue as well: "I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker," he told reporters during a news conference in Senegal. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/26/politics/nsa-leak/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/26/politics/nsa-leak/index.ht...
- tmuir 11y ago
  It's pretty disingenuous to interpret this statement as the president giving a free pass to all twentysomething hackers.
  - latj 11y ago
    I agree. Obama's record is quite clear when it comes to drone assassinations as a cheaper alternative to dragging people in for their day in court-- his own constituents included.
- lsiebert 11y ago
  Seems like he didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambling_(military) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambling_(military)
Buge 11y ago
I bypassed the paywall by googling the url of the article, because they whitelist google as a referer.
- kuschku 11y ago
  Only for US IPs. If you are from Germany, even with a Google referer you don’t get the article.
  - Aldo_MX 11y ago
    I could read the article from Mexico: https://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QqQIwAGoVChMIma6LiN_KxwIVSJQeCh22iAEH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fhacker-killed-by-drone-was-secret-weapon-1440718560&ei=BMnfVZmcBsioeraRhjg&usg=AFQjCNG3WNw3DvdOkYfGmNQa02pgnjTGfw https://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=we...
    - kuschku 11y ago
      Well, from Germany it seems to not work at all. I archived it through archive.is using your link (which uses X-Forwarded-For to allow wsj to see my IP), and the page looks like this: https://archive.is/HsIiC https://archive.is/HsIiC
  - dogma1138 11y ago
    Works from the UK, if you are unlucky go to https://www.4proxy.us/ https://www.4proxy.us/ type in https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&newwindow=1&site=&source=hp&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fhacker-killed-by-drone-was-secret-weapon-1440718560 https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&newwindow=1&site=&so... And it will work ;)
- SeldomSoup 11y ago
  You seem to be right (https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png), but I thought sites accessed through HTTPS, like Google, are never sent as referers.
  - marcosdumay 11y ago
    They are sent as referers to other HTTPS sites. But not to plain text ones.

mtgx 11y ago

Yes. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/junaid-hussain-british-hacker-for-isis-believed-killed-in-us-airstrike http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/junaid-hussain-... Apparently it didn't take Obama long to do another 180 on this issue as well: "I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker," he told reporters during a news conference in Senegal. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/26/politics/nsa-leak/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/26/politics/nsa-leak/index.ht...

tmuir 11y ago
It's pretty disingenuous to interpret this statement as the president giving a free pass to all twentysomething hackers.
- latj 11y ago
  I agree. Obama's record is quite clear when it comes to drone assassinations as a cheaper alternative to dragging people in for their day in court-- his own constituents included.
lsiebert 11y ago
Seems like he didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambling_(military) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambling_(military)

Buge 11y ago

I bypassed the paywall by googling the url of the article, because they whitelist google as a referer.

kuschku 11y ago
Only for US IPs. If you are from Germany, even with a Google referer you don’t get the article.
- Aldo_MX 11y ago
  I could read the article from Mexico: https://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QqQIwAGoVChMIma6LiN_KxwIVSJQeCh22iAEH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fhacker-killed-by-drone-was-secret-weapon-1440718560&ei=BMnfVZmcBsioeraRhjg&usg=AFQjCNG3WNw3DvdOkYfGmNQa02pgnjTGfw https://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=we...
  - kuschku 11y ago
    Well, from Germany it seems to not work at all. I archived it through archive.is using your link (which uses X-Forwarded-For to allow wsj to see my IP), and the page looks like this: https://archive.is/HsIiC https://archive.is/HsIiC
- dogma1138 11y ago
  Works from the UK, if you are unlucky go to https://www.4proxy.us/ https://www.4proxy.us/ type in https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&newwindow=1&site=&source=hp&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fhacker-killed-by-drone-was-secret-weapon-1440718560 https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&newwindow=1&site=&so... And it will work ;)
SeldomSoup 11y ago
You seem to be right (https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png), but I thought sites accessed through HTTPS, like Google, are never sent as referers.
- marcosdumay 11y ago
  They are sent as referers to other HTTPS sites. But not to plain text ones.