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I love these silly FBI "teenage boy badass" images they put up after they seize a website: https://genesis.market/ https://genesis.market/ The FBI agent in a
by nostromo 4y ago
I love these silly FBI "teenage boy badass" images they put up after they seize a website:
https://genesis.market/ https://genesis.market/
The FBI agent in a hoodie, eating a cookie while hacking into the Matrix is just too good.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoAt first glance, it looks like they have twenty sponsors donating for them to host some kind of public hackathon.
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- pph 4y agoAlso a typo in the alt text & wonky css that leads to weird stretching when the aspect ratio is not the same as the intern's who put up the page.
- PrufferFrish 4y agoLooks great on mobile, too. https://ibb.co/hBG7sgL https://ibb.co/hBG7sgL
- capableweb 4y agoSeemingly both their graphic designers and web developers (probably call them "webmasters") are stuck in the 90s judging by the source.
- cuttysnark 4y agoThe content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" was interesting to me since I'm so used to seeing utf-8. Caring about charset seemingly makes little sense here, given everything is embedded into the image. I wonder if this page was created by a generator.
- asynchronous 4y agoThat is a really weird catch- actually now that I look at it, this looks like some sort of PowerPoint to HTML export. I’d bet money that’s what it is now.
- jstarfish 4y agoPut away your wallet. It has the stink of Microsoft FrontPage.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoWhat sort of hacker uses mobile though? You're supposed to have like 8 CRT screens.
- the_third_wave 4y agoA mobile hacker uses mobile. It is rather hard to lug around those screens while war-cycling etc.
- tenpies 4y agoI love the random Canadian flag in there, because apparently every other country's police forces' crest should be recognizable to everyone on the internet, but the Canadians ones are just too obscure.
- calgarymicro 4y agoThe RCMP and Quebec Provincial Police logos are also there to the left of the flag, just way smaller than they need to be.
- dragonwriter 4y agoI suspect the block with the Canadian Flag, RCMP logo, and Sûreté de Québec logo were placed as a block at the request of the cooperating Canadian agencies together as their logo for Canada’s involvement, and that the Canadian flag is not placed there because the FBI is singling Canada out differently.
- epgui 4y agoYeah, and it's not even in the correct proportions. It's like it was created with Word Art. Ugh.
- krisoft 4y agoAlso I bet that the design guideline of most of these logos mandate a wide whitespace around them. These jokers even smushed the logos of the Finnish and the Netherlands police together. “Oh i see you let a bit of space in your logo empty. Mind if I push in an other logo there?”
- apatheticonion 4y agoI assume AFP is the Australian Federal Police?
- grenoire 4y agoLooks almost like they're pretending to have been seized for an April Fool's joke.
- doublerabbit 4y agoI was hoping for there to be a recruitment link in the source code. None, only clean HTML.
- capableweb 4y agoImages can have data "hidden" inside of them, just so you know :)
- mike_d 4y agoThere is very obviously a recruitment link there. Look again. Hint: It is above the image data.
- cuttysnark 4y agoThat's not "hidden" though, it's the alt text that also appears verbatim on the image itself.
- asdff 4y agoAll the logos on this make it look like they are sponsoring a 5k race.
- CTDOCodebases 4y agoIt reminds me of the Phineas Fisher quote: "...Hacker culture was born in the US as a counterculture, but that origin only remains in its aesthetics — the rest has been assimilated. At least they can wear a t-shirt, dye their hair blue, use their hacker names, and feel like rebels while they work for the Man."
- ok123456 4y agoAgree. It's cringe and yikes.
- leetbulb 4y agoThe essence of hacking culture remains with Hacktivism, hacking "for the Man," and everything in-between as it is all still...hacking. The profession attracts a very specific type of person and greatly rewards those who excel. Why is the culture considered lost if state-sactioned? In my opinion, that would be some of the most exciting exposure, with an added benefit of zero legal woes.
- whythre 4y agoBecause you can’t be punk if the government is writing your checks. You are the beast, not the scrappy underdog.
- zamnos 4y agoThrow in some geopolitics then. Hack Russia for Ukraine if you have to feel like the scrappy underdog while working for "the man".
- komali2 4y agoIn my opinion this genuinely only works if you are doing this separate from The State. Like I always told myself if the PRC actually invades Taiwan, I'll drop everything and dedicate my life to solo / group finding ways to harm the PRC digitally. I bet there are agencies in the USA where I could get paid to do the same, but then I'm working for the USA government, who is also the enemy of my values, maybe not as much as the PRC but still. It's a pretty common trope that a revolutionary (a cultural mindset I think hackers adopt) will sometimes / inevitably need to adopt the tactics of their enemy, but even if that's a truism, you certainly don't need to work for them. You can find your own way, especially in hacking. Because when you go to the NSA to hack Russia, you have no guarantee you'll actually be assigned that task. They might ask you to first hack the leader of a "potential terrorist organization," then you do so and it turns out it was an activist leader in the Black Lives Matter movement. What are you gonna do, complain to your boss? And, now you're a Fed. Now you can't even turn around and be a whistleblower or whatever because the State knows EVERYTHING about you, background checked you, and can smack you with a legal baseball bat if you act against their interests, slapping you with charges like "sharing state secrets" or whatever else they can dream up about confidential State information and technology. No thanks. Like others are say, you can't be punk and a fed. Anyway we're drawing fake lines in the sand here. Even if the PRC and the USA are at war, they're probably doing so at the whims of the real "Man," that being capital interests, corporations and billionaires. By plugging into the USA "side" you're just working for corporate interests in the end.
- kgeist 4y agoFBI agent in a hoodie looking at a monitor with a similar person in a hoodie as the wallpaper reminds me of AI-generated images (when AI doesn't know when to stop with the prompt and repeats same object several times, especially somewhere in the background)
- ftxbro 4y agoSomeone has called this 'semantic bleeding' which I think is an amazing name. It also happens in text generated by large language models.
- asdadsdad 4y agoThere must be a day when someone sits down and creates the art of the seized site. Job Posting: Seize Art Designer UI/UX
- y-curious 4y agoThis was a joke on some security podcast I listened to. More realistically, some nerd in the agency does it graphics on his/her free time and shows it to their boss. "Let's roll with it!" the boss exclaims.
- capableweb 4y agoOr is just the newest, youngest recruit who has any type of experience with Photoshop (or mspaint even) that gets a list of images and has to put the image together, which they then paste into Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 and voila, done.
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- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoI wonder if the fbi have any mandatory requirement to conform to web accessibility guidelines.
- brewdad 4y agoIf they do, an ALT tag saying "pwned" should suffice.
- throwaway123883 4y agoThey do, actually! There's a whole laundry list of guidelines Federal entities have to adhere to when making websites, both internal and external. You can learn more here: https://www.section508.gov/ https://www.section508.gov/
- epgui 4y agoI find it so weird... It doesn't look like an official government notice, it looks like advertisement or spam from the early 2000s. Complete with a non-proportional/stretched/distorted Canadian flag randomly thrown into the logo soup.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada
- paulpauper 4y agohard to say. what is the Canadian equivalent of the FBI?
- epgui 4y agoWe absolutely do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police
- epgui 4y ago(PS.: Can't edit my comment any longer, but the parent commenter completely altered their question sometime after I answered. Amusingly, the answer to the new question can also be found in my reply: the Canadian police is the "RCMP" in English, or "GRC" in French.)
- IncRnd 4y agoThere are literally two Canadian police logos directly next to the flag.
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- mardifoufs 4y agoSome of the logos are pretty cool too. I mean, how could you even be against something called EUROJUST.
- m463 4y agoIt is amusing. What is that next to the cookie? To the right? Is that a cookie monster with eyes?
- kennyloginz 4y agoReminds me of a great quote from John Waters about hacker aesthetics, specifically the hoodie. “Well, the Unabomber did that first. The Unabomber owns the hoodie, come on.” https://lavendermagazine.com/our-scene/the-wisdom-of-a-filth-elder-in-conversation-with-john-waters/ https://lavendermagazine.com/our-scene/the-wisdom-of-a-filth...
- TeMPOraL 4y agoLove the qintel logo in the bottom right corner. It's like they are not even trying to hide they're working with the baddies. Hail Hydra!
- TurkishPoptart 4y agoWhat's the controversy with Qintel about? Not to be confused with In-Q-Tel.
- account42 4y agoWell they had to up their meme game after Anonymous managed to hack this onto a government website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPni5O2YyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPni5O2YyI
- lkajslkjdd 4y agoQintel went all in: https://www.qintel.com/ https://www.qintel.com/ edit: lol one of their images is a mecahnical octopus climbing the Great Wall of China
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- tzs 4y agoGovernment agencies often have fun when they have occasion to produce art. You might enjoy this collection of mission patches from National Reconnaissance Organization satellite missions [1]. [1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/g2728/best-spy-mission-logos/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/g2728/best...