[iwar] [fc:Hackers.launch.cyberwar.on.terrorists]

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-10-09 08:09:33

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Hackers launch cyberwar on terrorists 
By James Middleton, vnunet.com, 10/9/2001
<a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125948">http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125948>

The hacker group that claims to have found Osama bin Laden's financial
accounts has this week launched its public face. Founded on 15 September
in reaction to the terrorist attacks on the US, YIHAT (Young Intelligent
Hackers Against Terror) claims to have kicked off a cyber-war against
terrorists. Now vnunet.com can exclusively reveal that the organisation
has launched a public information and recruitment site at Kill.net. The
name was chosen "because our mission is to kill the money sources of
terror," said Kim "kimble" Schmitz, spokesman for the group and
convicted Pentagon and NASA hacker. "Every burned terror dollar is
rescuing lives," he said. "YIHAT has a face now. Everybody on the net
can join us and do his part of anti-terror-work," added Schmitz. The
site appears to be set up as an information trading forum and
recruitment site. YIHAT claims to have 31 hacking professionals in nine
different countries, including the UK, and is on the lookout for skilled
recruits. Of course, you can also invest in the fund to support YIHAT,
which already has five investors including multi-millionaire Schmitz.
"YIHAT dedicates its knowledge of data (in) security to the fight
against terrorism. The best hackers on this planet are united and form a
strong intellectual army," reads the site's blurb. But many of these
claims are insupportable, possibly given the legal grey areas which
these hackers exploit in their activities. Earlier this month UK members
of YIHAT are said to have broken into the AlShamal Islamic bank and
captured transaction data from bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Apparently the
info was passed on to the FBI, which has been unable to comment on the
matter. Schmitz and YIHAT are apparently "searching for a government
that allows a network of skilled computer hackers to fight terrorism
through the online world."

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