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ImageShack Hacked, Security Groups Threatened
revjtanton writes "Last night a group calling themselves 'Anti-Sec' hacked ImageShack, one of the largest image hosting sites on the web, and replaced many of the site's hosted pictures with one of their own, which detailed their manifesto. The group's grievance is against full-disclosure of exploits, an issue that was debated recently after a presentation on an ATM exploit was canceled. Anti-Sec simply wants the practice within security circles to end, and they've promised to cause 'mayhem and destruction' if it doesn't. These people are taking direct aim against a sector of the IT industry that is already armed to fight the ... but they also already know that. It should be interesting to see how this plays out."
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Hey cats! I just wrote a rap song called "Knig Knog == King Kong". Check it out and offer constructive criticism:
Okay, now - Knig knog equals king kong
Cuz the white man be weak, and the black man be strong
Like a gorilla. Cuz they thrill ya. You gotta white bitch
They put the black dick in 'ah.
You're alone on the street in a dark night,
I'm afraid that I might have to fight,
You're scared shitless, and you know why,
Nigs are worse than lions and tigers and bears (oh, my!)
Cars a mile away, walkin the street
past a gang of niggers and their footlong meats,
You look down at yo feet, they goin to KFC to eat
You make eye contact than you gon' get beat! (chorus)
Can I get some privacy without a...NOG
Climbin up the side of my apartment like KING KONG
I'd better scratch my trigger finger itch,
before he punches through my window and he steals my white bitch!
Naw, she's safe, he's still goin up and up,
Till he finds the blonde bitch he wants to fuck, so good luck,
He grabs the bitches that he knows, like LeBron James
On the cover of Vogue!
I remember, way back when,
My girlfriend dumped me for a black man
Same thing happened to my homie Slick,
he can't complete with a footlong dick!
So there's this hot black bitch who works at the store
and she bags my forties, but I want much more
Black dudes are dicks, always in-yo-face
but does that hot black mama give a fuck about race?
Rashawn took my woman from me,
And now I'm gonna take his bitch from he
I'll take her out, treat her real nice
while Rashawn's beating his dick with his dreadlocks and lice
My kid have white man's brains, and black man's brawn
With genetic material superior to RaShawn's
So it'll be a happy ending after all,
with my offspring buyin my house after playin' pro football!(chorus)
For those unfamiliar with the site and only loosely following security issues, is there any speculation on how the hack was done? Was ImageShack stupid enough to be hosting a web site on Windows or was it a Linux hack? Was the site designed (perhaps mis-designed) to allow remote users the ability to upload data? Or was it something as simple as allowing ssh or ftp from anywhere?
If its a windows hack, the story lead-ins should perhaps reveal that so Linux users know whether or non they should just shake their heads or whether they should actually be concerned.
I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a legitimate argument or a fantastic piece of trolling, but if it's trolling then I'm impressed. You've combined free speech, activism, minorities, anti-corportism and anti-social behaviour into one slick package without differentiating any of their goals or means. There is no concordance between peaceful protest and hacking a webpage to spread a message. One just makes noise, the other interferes with the lives and property of other people. The ends do not justify the means.
Scientists point out problems, engineers fix them
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Except that history has shown that many software companies won't actually fix problems until forced to do so by full disclosure.
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'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
My Pr0n Has Been Replaced by a Manifesto!
What's next, Rapidshare?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell