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'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous
Giovane Moura writes "For a number of days the websites of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and others are attacked by a group of WikiLeaks supporters (hacktivists). Although the group calls itself 'Anonymous,' researchers at the DACS group of the University of Twente (UT), the Netherlands, discovered that these hacktivists are easy traceable (PDF), and therefore anything but anonymous. The LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) software, which is used by the hacktivists, was analyzed by UT researchers, who concluded that the attacks generated by this tool are relatively simple and unveil the identity of the attacker. If hacktivists use this tool directly from their own machines, instead of via anonymization networks such as Tor, the Internet address of the attacker is included in every Internet message being transmitted. In the tools no sophisticated techniques are used, such as IP-spoofing, in which the source address of others is used, or reflected attacks, in which attacks go via third party systems.
I should change my WI-FI password?
I sat down to write a new sig tonight and all I did was make the chair warm.
Good Luck, I'm Behind 0 Proxies!
That was probably the intention of these so-called "researchers" (right, not CIA shills at all...) when they suggested such an alternative.
Soooo.... got any tinfoil hats for sale?
think of it like shooting an RPG at your neighbour through a chain link fence.
You will end up with a still alive neighbour, a destroied fence and look like an idiot.
(Muffled voice emanating from behind a couch from behind which a body and hindquarters are clearly visible) "Hahaha! They'll ~never~ find me!"
No, no sig. Really.
ThePromenader
OH MY GOD!!! Our webs are down! All of them! They're stealing the internet! Quick, we need to hack all IPs simultaneously!
Isn't it kinda childish to label everything that isn't pro wikileaks as CIA shills?
You only say that because you're a CIA shill.
we were loitering in the anonops irc channel at work the past few days, and one of the questions asked of a bona fide participant was "what's the port for http on www.hillaryclinton.com?" ... i mean, seriously? clearly, we're dealing with brilliant hacker minds here. /sarcasm IP spoofing is likely not a concept that most of them can actually get their minds around as possible.
Warning! Your computer may be broadcasting an IP address! Click here to learn how to fix it!
There's this awesome site called Google, that actually lets people search for things they are looking for, all by themselves. It's a crazy concept, I know, but it might be worth a try.
You MORORN, The HTTP port is WWW, even my GRANDMOTHER knows that!
I want my Cowboyneal
It's a surprise that these people are just a bunch of script kiddies? The phrase "useful idiots" comes to mind: these knuckleheads will take the fall, giving the media and legal system someone to chew on while those with some modicum of coding skill avoid attention. I bet it wouldn't take a lot to ID the majority. Their safely is really in numbers, which isn't much safety at all.
It's not "Script Kiddies" on 4chan. It's "Script Kitties" :-)
You MORORN, The HTTP port is WWW, even my GRANDMOTHER knows that!
I heard WWW was greek for 666, so I don't use the HTTP anymore.
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