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Anonymous Steals 10,000 Iranian Government Emails
Several readers have sent word that Anonymous has hacked servers belonging to Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, making off with over 10,000 emails.
"The Ministry’s website is still down as of this writing, and the servers are under Anonymous control. ... The email archive includes approvals and rejections for a variety of visas and passports, among other requests and correspondence. 'It’s near the election’s anniversary. We had to do something,' said one of the Iranian members of Anonymous from #OpIran. He said they take down Iranian government servers on a regular basis for operation days, but that obviously retrieving information required a different approach to the group’s signature DDoS attack. He also indicated an as-yet unannounced attack. 'For the election’s anniversary, we have a complete DDoS attack day' planned, he said.
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Let me see, so that would be CIA, NSA and Airforce cyber-command behind an astroturfed smokescreen of scriptkiddies...
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10,000 emails? What is that after you filter out the spam, like 50?
Good work! Just be careful...do not get yourselves caught!
Unfortunately, what they had managed to acquire was just the last year's worth of lunch menus of all Iranian embassies.
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... did they pick up a Stuxnet infection in the process?
So some Americans are slanted against Iran, and your slanted against Americans. Hardly gives you any room to speak.
The Google hack targeted, among other things, the accounts of human rights activists which is what made it despicable.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
When I hit the /. story I got the following message below and I was curious if there were links to the email and Iran hacker #1 equal to 1000 hacker was retaliating
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These places need to encrypt their archives remotely.
A new open source project, Cyphertite, does just that. They have a beta test.. and so far it works great for me.
that mainland China would want to do this anonymously.
U.S.: Anonymous is completely rogue! They attack everyone utterly at random!
Anonymous: Not everyone, just the bad guys.
U.S.: What are you talking about? You've been attacking us, too.
Anonymous: *cocks eyebrow*
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True, but who is hit by this hack? Visa and passport applications, amongst various other correspondence? Nothing of importance there, then, else they'd have mentioned it. Only the dealings of ordinary citizens with their government. Great act of resistance there.
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I'm not sure about the consequences. We've seen/heard of FBI raids against DDOS participants when the target is Western financial services, but does law enforcement care at all when Anons mess with Iranian or other rogue states' sites? I'd imagine that the legality is the same in either instance, so it's really the response that I'm concerned with.
Take off every 'sig' for great justice.
Having would be kings squabbling to be in charge of your life -> western
Having an uncontested king undoubtedly in charge of your life -> eastern
Plenty of Slashdoter's supported the wikileaks cable release. I think you find a general distaste among Slashdoters for big governments doing oppressive things even when its their own. I don't see the "Western Hypocrisy" at least among the main stream Slashdot crowd, which I admit is not exactly main stream.
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And what does the postmaster say about the amount of emails stolen?
"It's over NINE THOUSAAAAAAND!"
"WHAT?! NINE THOUSAND?"
If what I just said sounded like a troll, it was probably just a failed attempt at humor.
Besides the obvious political angles, releases like these are probably a boon to academics doing work with text mining and the like. Public releases of email data sets have been hard to come by, something about "privacy". Of course, they're probably unlikely to all be in English, so your mileage may vary...
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One hack is very different from the other. If you can not tell the difference, you may want to go back to Freedom 101 or Freedom for Idiots.
Just like the Chinese hack on Google? Oh wait, because it's against Iran, according to Slashdot it's a great stroke for freedom and democracy. Slashdot's Western hypocrisy will quickly show itself once again, and before you say, "but it wasn't America or Israel behind it!!!!!" what proof do you have that the Chinese government was behind the Google hack?
It isn't just a matter of who did what, but also why they did it. I would say that the China thing is more on par with the worm that attacked Iran that what anon has done here.
Is the difference between goverment agencies (as in case of the "Chinese" hacking gMail) and loosly organised individuals really that hard to graps? Basically, it's "induvidual people attracking centrilised organisations = good", "centralised organisation attacking individual people = bad".
Btw, inb4 "goverments are made of people".
Maybe. If our State Dept. got hacked, people would freak out even if it was just a bunch of "where are we going for lunch" messages.
With luck, Anonymous will dump the load over to Wikileaks.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Who says the Chinese hack on Google was a horrible, evil thing? Google, sure. And the US government, sure. Personally, I couldn't care less either way.
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Just like the Chinese hack on Google? Oh wait, because it's against Iran, according to Slashdot it's a great stroke for freedom and democracy.
No, no, you misunderstand. It's a great stroke for freedom and democracy because it was done by someone claiming to be from Anonymous (a group which conveniently both exists and doesn't exist, depending on whether Slashdot agrees with their actions or not or if they suddenly need plausible deniability). Big difference.
No, what's despicable is that some individuals consider themselves to be above the law, in the name of human rights.
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Bullshit.
Arresting people for holding opinions and saying things that the government doesn't like is despicable. Just because those with guns make it a "law" doesn't make it moral or just.
(And no, I'm not talking about yelling "fire" in a crowded theater type speech.)
Putting people in jail, without formal charges or even notifying anyone outside the jail that they are being held is despicable -- even if it is the law.
Yes, there are laws that EVERYONE should be above -- if they had a brain and a backbone.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
No, what's despicable is that some individuals consider themselves to be above human rights, in the name of the law.
FTFY.
I think that a variant of the trollface, with a turban, "the Ayahtrollah", would be a suitable mascot for such activities.
So... you think that hacking google, to get the login credentials and email history of human rights activists for the express purpose of identifying them and their associates so that they can be imprisoned or executed for daring to ask that people be treated with some basic human respect isn't evil?
Spats between hackers and international corporations is one thing. When you attack a foreign government, that starts to get awfully close to war which is a matter for governments and not their citizens.
It is also easy to imagine military and intelligence agencies behind these sorts of attacks and hiding behind their citizenry as an excuse.
This sort of thing is going to continue to escalate and I predict that lives will eventually be lost..
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Just like the Chinese hack on Google?
Not at all. One was a government attacking a private company. The other is a group of people attacking a government.
You may argue that the Anonymous attack is wrong, but the premise that the Chinese attacking Google is equivalent is incorrect.
If you are against the Western hypocrisy it would be more correct for you to prove China's innocence than for me to prove its guilt.
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I wonder if they'll offer a welcome back package when they come back up.
Shouldn't the title of the article say something like "Anonymous steals over 9,000 Iranian emails"?
However modded parent Troll completely missed the point.
So... why do you exist?
Isn't it great how anyone can be "from Anonymous", even those they target?
Grammar nazis are to this community what excrements are to gold.
we were basically paying whats-his-name, head of HB Gary, to go around running script kiddie stuff and fantasize about quitting his job and building an MMO.
you can read about it in the anonymous dumps.
Finally those faggots attack people that deserve it.
How many beheadings, mass killings, and homicide bombings did it take before you queers decided to kick an islamic republic in the nuts?
Maybe. If our State Dept. got hacked, people would freak out even if it was just a bunch of "where are we going for lunch" messages.
It would also be considered an act of war by the US, and some assholes will certainly call for retaliation with cruise missiles.
You'd think Charlie Sheen has taken over as much Win anon has been producing lately. Now if they'll just go after Nigeria next :P
I hate to say it, but anon has really started becoming a patriot group and one at least in part I can support.
Hopefully they stay like this and leave the camwhores like Jessi Slaughter alone or for Ebaum to deal with.
To rip off a famous poem:
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Do you notice that many of you are comparing DDOSing servers and getting (copies of) password files to killing people or putting them into concentration camps?
The next act of terrorism is what: sitting in front of a store and blocking the entrance?
By all means: argue in terms of civil law. Talk about the (financial, reputational) harm those DDOSers do.
But don't fucking compare that to violence against people.
It's not. Get a grip.
(Hint: civil disobedience traditionally entails breaking some laws -- but refrains from harming humans directly)
of some visa applicant's passports. What are they going to do with them? Sell them to Mossad?
Your point is well taken, and you should not be modded down as flamebait. I am so tired of mod -1 "disagree".
In the torrent is 10,356 email files. If you filter out all file names that contain the words warning, failure, visa, request, failed, or reservation, you're left with 58 files, some of which appear to be spam. So, not a great treasure trove.
The commands I used are
ls | grep -vEi "warning|failure|visa|request|failed|reservation" | wc
ls | wc -l