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Anonymous Launches a WikiLeaks For Hackers
siliconbits writes "Despite countless WikiLeaks copycats popping up since the secret-spilling site first dumped its cache of State Department cables last year, the new generation of leaking sites has produced few WikiLeaks-sized scoops. So instead of waiting for insider whistleblowers, the hacker movement Anonymous hopes that a few outside intruders might start the leaks flowing."
Why can't hackers just send their leaks to wikileaks?
They are using .tk domains, just goes to show you what fools you're dealing with. Those domains won't last long.
I've had a few .tk domains banned and then blacklisted permanently from being re-registered. They had nothing law-breaking on them, but were sites that discussed piracy and cracked programs, which was enough to violate their broad TOS.
A whistleblower who wants to make certain documents of his/her employer public faces a problem:
How do I stop the leak being traced back to me?
This is especially relevant when you'r employed with the government, which in theory is very capable of tracing the origin of leaks, but every whistleblower runs this risk.
But isn't it a great strategy to then tip off outsiders and make them retrieve and distribute the documents instead? letting the version number of old software at the office slip, or maybe a file path or two, could be enough. Maybe a USB stick could be "stolen" ? Even if your name gets implied, you can feign innocence in the court.
I guess they figured they could replicate the 'Big Profits'of WikiLeaks by adopting their business model:
1) have people donate both content and operating funds
2) keep operating expenses below donated funds
3) big profits!
Ken
Anonymous is not a "hacker movement". What a bizarre article.
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Well well, and I thought it could not get any worse.
In this last month, we've seen "anonymous brazil" and "lulzsec brazil" branches trying to start up. They did a lot of DDoS on the federal government websites.
The clinch? Some people are trying to pass a law that updates the criminal code to punish internet crimes, and one extremely important vote about it happened last week. Most of us are _against_ this criminal code update in the form it is currently being pushed, because the usual suspects included a lot of "screw the customer, screw the ISPs, let's get more money in the hands of the music and movie industries by criminalizing music/movie downloads AND get the ISPs to be our police for free!" through lobby. I should add this law would NOT be good for criminal hackers either (which is the one good thing about it), but since it was coopted to be a damage to society, even the party that controls the federal government right now was trying to get it cleaned up and pushing back against its current adoption.
So, we have two supposedly hacker groups doing attacks in the government of a country in a way that makes it more LIKELY to pass legislation that is DAMAGING to civil liberty and internet use on that country (as well as to activities of criminal hackers), at the worst possible time. Coincidence? I think not. Whomever anoynmous brazil and lulzsec brazil are, they have been PAID WELL to do that. They've played anonymous and lulzsec for fools, too.
Thank you very much, your bunch of naïve children. When you start handling weapons to attack government sites in a whim, you MUST be intelligent AND dilligent enough to not be used as tools by others, damn it! At the very least never do that before doing some throughout research on the local conditions, through a LARGE number of people you can trust to not be NARCs or worse! This is NOT fun, and NOT easy. But if you cannot be dilligent enough to do it, keep your DDoS on your own turf and never lend bots to anyone.
some good old disinformation? Considering the source..
**Article:**
a list of the personal details of Orlando officials including addresses, home values, incomes and other data.
Isn't that all public information anyway? Incomes are public record. Home values are public record through county auditor's websites. That isn't much of a leak. More like footwork to gather it all together.
Governments do need their secrets, especially diplomatically. They also don't need as much secrecy as they claim. The point of whistle blowers is that they take action when they see the government doing wrong in secret. In modern times with computers there is just too much information for any one person to review and that is what Wikileaks was suppose to address. There was suppose to be conscientious people at the helm reviewing material before release so that people like Bradley Manning could entrust that due diligence would be observed. For the vast majority of cables there was no relevance or crime.
Julian Assange abandoned Bradley Manning and failed to deliver on the implied promise of using digression. Wikileaks no longer accepts submissions and I wonder who would actually trust Wikileaks now. Furthermore it's a sure thing that all would be imitators will be infiltrated by governments from here on out.
Undoubtedly good has been served. But the failure of trust and reputation is total.
The smartest thing Leakers can do is study up on the ways to secure a genuinely anonymous communication link and then send such leaks to numerous leak receiving parties while perhaps additionally taking note of who does and does not process the leaks for verification and publishing. For certainly there are going to be, if not already (we actually already know "already" has happened) more falsely secure receiving sites. Sites that might be fun to expose.
Simply put for leakers, don't trust any site to be secure, instead do what you can to secure your identity from your side. And this will even help genuinely secure sites from being infiltrated in a way that puts leakers at risk.
Its really just common sense.
These guys do realize since the PLF have a name, they aren't really "anonymous" right?
Since when did Anonymous get a Press Agent?
This whole thing stinks of a false flag operation. We have millions of "Secret Agents" in the USA now running all kinds of missions using your money. (Have you heard of the huge new facility being built in Salt Lake City, Utah for spying?)
I worked in the security industry for a while and it is filled with Catholics and Mormons who are conflicted about sex. They all sign employment agreements which prevent them from accessing sites containing sexual content, drug use, hate speech, firearms, or copyright infringement. Which would explain why this honeypot wiki is posted on such an idiotic domain.
The Real Anonymous doesn't post press alerts.
this is going to entire law enforcement of world to the defense too, you're little pathetic game is coming to end...you know there is no reason for you to put people in jail for breaking the law because you know there is no reason for people to be in jail for breaking the law . hell is eternity. also going to these congressionals or congress wth i did not have a congression to know they dont wanna say nothing. is there a reason for people to be in jail for breaking the law? Nope there is no reason for you to be in jail for breaking the law. so than these people know there is no reason for them to put you in jail for breaking the law because there is no reason for you to be in jail for breaking the law.
...how is this any different than the various Warez/P2P networks out there? And why are they so hell bent on attaching themselves to something as legitimate as Wikileaks?
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Im surprised anyone is taking this site (that looks like it was developed by a 5 year old).... seriously. I certainly cant.
"If you've got a hack to submit, simply paste it into the "hacks_list" table on our MySQL server. Please refrain from changing the content of our home page though."
I thought that hackers already had their own Wikileaks and that it was called Pastebin.
~Syberz
Isn't it very likely that the newest whistle blower sites are only being started in order to find out who whistle blowers are?
The .tk domain names are for cheapskates and the other posting about "copycat sites" has barley anything I have a feeling the guy that wrote this article and just spun up 2 wiki's and pretended to be affiliated with Anonymous. Lame post!