Syrian Electronic Army hacks US Marines, asks 'bros' to fight on its side

Re: Wow such a tough "army"

Script kiddies at their, erm, worst.

What is disgusting is that El Reg calls figuring out an insecure password hacking.

They'd quite likely shit themselves if they saw a real hack done by a CEH, let alone a black hat.

Re: The problem is...

It's a choice right now of shit or excrement.

What really matters in the end is who manages to retain control after all of the murder and destruction is over.

Pity, I rather liked Syrians. Overall, they were rather laid back folks that had really cool ladies bedroom attire.

At the end of this, it's likely the ladies will be wearing sackcloth from birth to grave, even when showering.

Maybe I should start the lot of them off on me and distract them from killing each other. I'll just pick on them for how small their olives are compared to Lebanese olives, let alone Egyptian olives. ;)

(Yes, I spent enough time in the region to know what each exported food tasted like. It makes me want to strip the warhead off of a cruise missile, shove the missile body up Assad's ass, then launch him out to sea.)

Re: So everyone's just hoping this news report goes away...?

The pertinent word in that article is "infowars.com".

Re: So everyone's just hoping this news report goes away...?

I believe Infowars as far as I can throw Fox News…

Re: Wait..

I'm retired US Army, but know plenty of reformed Marines and plenty of still serving Marines.

The *only* dumb Marines I ever met were commissioned officers. Two of them out of hundreds I personally know/knew.

The US studied IQ and military capability ages ago. They learned, one cannot get a moron to charge a machinegun nest, one can trivially get a genius to do so and most of those who are of above average intelligence. They further quantified the particular measures and those are reflected in the ASVAB test.

My scores qualified me for every position, save crypto.

Ended up implementing a lot of crypto, having to understand it to make it work after I retired.

There is idiocy and there is stupidity. An idiot won't perform in a military environment involving combat, the stupid person will happily make a suicide charge "for the cause".

Though, it takes a special kind of stupid to go through hell week, all the other hell, then serve through hell and damnation and survive. Those are selected for an inability to quit, regardless of how lousy things are and will become.

Amazingly, many of us survive.

Some become BOFH MKII. ;)

Re: Syria chose the wrong friends

Dude, get the real facts, not the press release.

First up to bat, Iran's mullahs aren't crazy. They're pissed off over the US overthrowing their democracy for UK oil interests that were stealing Iran's oil. They've repeatedly said that they only want an official apology from the US.

When Obama made a half-mention, he was lambasted by the GOP and submitted as public enemy #1, rather than public enema #1 that he is.

The fact is, Assad chose Iran for a simple reason: Loads of oil money funding efforts to support him, errr, their cause. Hence, load of warm, breathing bodies that happen to also get halfway level training and leaders get both decent training and excellent experience (they survived war).

The *entire* Levant and GCC is like dancing on the heads of snakes unless one understands the culture and works both with and against aspects of it. It's challenging, but not impossible if one has an operational brain.

I see no alternative, as Obama made a bold demand to not use chemical weapons and idiot used them. Either lose all stature on POTUS statements forever or act.

But, acting *is* the right thing. Sarin isn't a nice agent. Thermal weapons aren't very nice either.

Bullets, bombs and knives aren't nice either, but this veteran would happily skin alive anyone who uses thermal weapons (napalm, thermite, thermobaric weapons, etc) or chemical weapons in an area where large numbers of civilians can get injured.

I'll not even go into blood agents, choking agents or vesicant agents.