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Wikileaks DDoSed Again
twoheadedboy writes "After being hit by a '72-hour' DDoS in May, WikiLeaks is claiming to be under attack yet again. All its sites appear to be down and fingers have already been pointed at government entities. WikiLeaks, posting on Twitter, said it had its suspicions of why it was being targeted. It was either because of its ongoing releases related to Stratfor and Syria, or because of an upcoming release, Julian Assange's organization speculated. The fact that everyone is currently engrossed in the Olympics may have given attackers good reason to target the websites right now, WikiLeaks said."
to stay in the spotlight.
The cyber attack on Iran, or the ones in London?
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
The problem is that according to the US everyone and everything is an enemy combatant. Even the mighty US doesn't have the resources to be at war with everyone at once.
The Jester had posted something about Wikileaks with his usual "#ticktock" threat on Twitter yesterday. He seems to have deleted the tweet since then, though.
That 'Th3 J3st3r' person is an internet troll who conducts minor DDOS attacks in the name of US Patriotism.
The guy is a moron who is going to end up inside one of the jails of the country he claims to be fighting for sooner or later.
The US is not that powerful. They invest a lot in propaganda to make the rest of the world believe that they are. They buy their way into everything, which is unsustainable.
Maybe this is a takedown precursor DDOS like what happened to Demonoid? Gov't entities (or "white hats" working for them or the MAFIAA's) DDOS the site while preparing for a takedown so that the owners/users can't log in and change anything or delete any records?
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A group calling themselves AntiLeaks has taken responsibility for the attacks. Here are a couple of stories on a german tech site about the group. You can translate it into german. http://www.gulli.com/news/19466-antileaks-ddos-angriffe-als-protest-gegen-wikileaks-2012-08-08 http://www.gulli.com/news/19456-ddos-angriffe-legen-wikileaks-lahm-2012-08-07
Where can you show me the US government, right now, attempting the extermination of an entire race of people?
I have as much distrust of the federal government in me as the next guy, but the US !=Nazi Germany. That is hyperbole, and quite honestly is ridiculous.
While I agree with you, I do have one question:
Isn't perception of power just as useful as actual power (or maybe even the same thing)? I don't have to punch you in the face to stop you from pissing me off if you believe that I will do it if you piss me off. Same sort of thing.
"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance." Sun Tzu
Who cares (other than the participant of course) how much time they spend? The only advantage this provides society is perhaps better performance enhancing drugs and dietary programs.
Otherwise, what benefit is there to being able to do the pole jump a few feet higher than someone else? None. These sports don't translate into real-world usefulness. If I wanted to lift 300kg, I'd use a machine, not risk blowing out my rectum trying to lift it by hand.
At least someone who devotes their life to programming, construction, architecture, or engineering tends to produce something for society out of that time invested.
Professional sports as it is today is a gross misallocation of time and money.
How does a DDOS prevent wikileaks from spreading information? Go somewhere else, upload whatever you have to any of the bazillion file upload services then seed the address in the social networks and the rest takes care of itself. I don't think any government thinks a DDOS would prevent information that wikileaks has from being made public. My guess is it's just a publicity stunt by wikileaks themselves.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
If they win gold, that is when the pay day starts. How many non medal winning people from the Olympics are on the Wheaties box?
It's really not very hard to draw attention from people who will censor you or otherwise block your message. Try to distribute information that is inimical to the operations of COINTELPRO spies attempting to manipulate the internet, and you can experience this for yourself. For one example of such forbidden content, read and then try to distribute The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies, which describes in detail the methods used by spies to manipulate internet forums. Slashdot is one forum that is so manipulated, but there are many others. Read that document, then make a concerted effort to get it in front of many eyeballs, and see what happens. After your attempts to communicate are suppressed you will have a much better understanding of "some global conspiracy to DDoS my website to silence me". After such an experience you will be much less prone to doubt others who claim to experience the same thing.
This author now has so much experience in this area that I can generally tell in advance which material will, and will not, be suppressed, and can often correctly guess which method(s) will be used.
It does sort of hit the "paranoia" button...first the "convenien" DDOS of Demonoid, now Wikileaks....if it *is* taken down, after the DDOS, it will definitely make people wonder who has hired some group to do the dirty work that the IP Industrial Complex would like done....
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Read The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies and learn about the many techniques used. You just named several of them. Some of the messages posted above, which you mentioned, probably ARE astroturf. There's been rather a LOT of astroturf on Slashdot lately. The funny thing is, once the readership is EDUCATED about the methods used to manipulate them, those methods no longer work. So educate yourselves, learn how to identify and counter astroturfing, and it won't work as well. Information will set you free.
The post directly above, by an AC, is a case in point. I'm morally certain that whomever posted that brief blurb is an astroturfer.
Ok Slashdot; are you listening? Here's a suggestion for a potentially great post: Publish an analysis of all the IP-addresses connected to down-moderated controversial political comments. Hint: Be thorough and honest and enjoy a very successful article.
Seriously.
- A very sincere and convinced "troll"
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