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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.
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.
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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.
**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.
digression? You mean: discretion? Manning wasn't turned in by Wikileaks. The Wikileaks system allows for completely anonymous submissions.
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.
Julian Assange didn't do anything to Bradley Manning.
Bradley Manning contacted Adrian Lamo, spilled the beans on everything he was doing and Adrian Lamo narced him out to Army counter-intelligence and FBI.
Wikileaks did everything they could for Manning's protection - Manning fucked himself over by trusting Adrian Lamo.
Quit being stupid.
People's Liberation Front started (according to their website) in 1985. They predate actual hacking of computer systems and got their start by creating devices that could be used to get free access to payphones. I admit, though, it does seem hard to tell them apart from Anonymous in the present day. The certainly are using the memes enough....it's almost like they found a younger cousin who is more adept at the work they like to do and are riding the coattails. But there's still stark contrasts.
You were critically hit for no damage. The bruise will look nice, and maybe the scars will make good party talk.
...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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Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
I think it makes sense to stay away from those kinds of sites while on the job anyway.
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
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