Israel vows to retaliate after credit cards are hacked

[thewayne]

This was a statement from the Israeli deputy foreign minister. The BBC lead-in: "Israel has said it will respond to cyber-attacks in the same way it responds to violent "terrorist" acts after the credit card details of thousands of its citizens were published online."

This was not a terrorist event, this was not an attack against Israel, this was weak security by whatever bank held these cards. Yeah, I'm sure this will end well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16456100

Comments

[silveradept]

This sounds a lot like the smallest guy in the room making the loudest noise and claiming he's going to frak everyone up.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Problem is that the nation state of Israel has a history of frakking people up. I'm curious how long this particular deputy foreign minister is going to stay in his current position.

[silveradept]

From the one person I know on the blogroll there, it sounds like such bellicosity would guarantee them to stay in the position, rather than have them moved or removed from it.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately that is a distinct possibility.