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Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com)
After Newsweek published a report titled "How Donald Trump's Company Violated The United States Embargo Against Cuba," the site found itself on the receiving end of a "massive" denial-of-service attack that managed to shut down the site for several hours. TPM reports: Editor-In-Chief Jim Impoco noted that the attack came as the story earned national attention. "Last night we were on the receiving end of what our IT chief called a 'massive' DoS (denial of service) attack," Impoco wrote in an email to TPM. "The site was down most of last evening, at a time when Kurt Eichenwald's story detailing how Donald Trump's company broke the law by violating the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba was being covered extensively by prominent cable news programs. Our IT team is still investigating the hack." Later Friday afternoon, Impoco emailed TPM that in an initial investigation, the "main" IP addresses linked to the attack were found to be Russian. It should be noted that it is possible to fake an IP address. "As with any DDoS attack, there are lots of IP addresses, but the main ones are Russian, though that in itself does not prove anything," he wrote. "We are still investigating." Eichenwald tweeted Friday morning: "News: The reason ppl couldnt read #TrumpInCuba piece late yesterday is that hackers launched a major attack on Newsweek after it was posted."
It's a bromance.
The more that Americans perceive that Russia thinks that electing Trump will be good for Russia, the more likely Americans might also think that electing Trump might not be so good for America.
They are authoritarian followers, that fight anybody that disagrees with them with violence. They are irrational and dangerous. They are unable to find a middle-ground with others. This is the same type of people that are responsible for countless mass-murders throughout history and have establishes countless totalitarian states. These people are the enemy of anybody not in their camp. And they destroy nations.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Trump, Putin, and Streisand! A match made in...
*HURK*
Sorry, sorry, i don't think i can finish that thought. And now i need to go get some brain bleach.
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Did Newsweek publish any other stories that day (or that week)? Is there a definite correlation between that publishing of that story and the DDOS?
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... just shocked that Trump supporters don't believe in the 1st Amendment right to free speech. I truly thought they had the Bill of Rights tattooed on their thighs.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
In before the first post saying that a DDOS attack is actually free speech.
Meanwhile, the orange tweaker-in-chief is up at 3am rage-posting about some chick that wouldn't sleep with him 15 years ago.
http://www.salon.com/2016/09/3...
I think God's just fucking with us now.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Trump's a D-Bag, but if there's literally no evidence that the DDOS came as a RESULT of the article (only that it came after the story), then why are we strongly insinuating causality?
There's no need for that. Trump's already shit stain and everyone knows it. There's no need to jump to conclusions and tie him to something that he may not be associated. Because if it turns out that he's NOT associated, this will just be conspiracy theorist and Trump pariah bait.
They complain that their 1st Amendment rights are violated (on non-gov websites) when others react to the things they post meanwhile they shut down entire sites with messages they don't like.
Given that DDoS attacks seem to be becoming more accessible, what counter measures are there and can anything in the design of the Internet Protocol be modified, in a non-breaking way, to reduce the risk?
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
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"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
Maybe he's just really, really hungry?
Alternatively, Newsweek may have simply screwed up their servers and decided that blaming it on "Russian hackers" was going to give their story more credence. Or Hillary or her supporters may have engineered such attacks, for the same reason. You can't believe anything these people say.
Trump controls Isis?
You mean, he bought them out? No wonder their wages were cut
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Seriously, who cares? The embargo has more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese. Any American who wanted to go to Cuba just had to go via another country, and they've worked out a scheme with Cuba to prevent it from ever showing up on your passport:
But that’s not the only way. For decades, despite the embargo, some Americans have been visiting Cuba by way of indirect flights through countries such as Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. These trips require less paperwork and can cost less than half the official option. An official, state-approved trip from the U.S. can cost between $4,000 and $5,000 for a week. A package including a resort stay and round-trip flights through Canada or another country will cost about $1,290 (or $1,500 Canadian), according to Krytiuk.
Typically, American travelers book flights to Cuba through a Canadian city or Caribbean hubs such as Nassau, Bahamas, or Cancún, Mexico. From there, every traveler going to Cuba is issued a tourist card for the passport. Upon arrival, Cuban customs agents remove one half of the card, and take the other half upon departure -- leaving no official record of the visit in a traveler’s passport.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Imagine what he'd be able to accomplish as commander in chief.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
That IRS thing was determined to be non partisan after all. There was an increase in enforcement of 501c3 orgs, but it happened more or less equally to both sides.
It's also *very* possible that the attack has absolutely nothing to do with that particular story. The site an probably a hundred stories or more just in the past week alone. So far I've heard zero evidence that the attack has anything at all with that particular story or any story about any political jerkoff.
Even though the IRS itself admitted that they were being partisan (slow-rolling conservative applications)....?
You clearly don't understand either candidate.
Very true; such political ratfucks have been almost solely the domain of the GOP since 1960.
It wasn't partisan as much as it was profiling. They knew that most of the nonsense filings were centered around a few keywords.
IMHO the Cuban Embargo was an unconstitutional usurpation of power by the Federal Government.
Think about it: Telling US citizens that they can't go to some place the government doesn't like because they're forbidden to spend US currency there (or spend other "hard" currency they bought with US currency), and going there requires spending money? Shades of the Iron Curtain and Catch-22. (If the US government wants to forbid such a thing and have even a chance of finding a Constitutional authorization, they need to DECLARE WAR against Cuba - and then actively fight it.)
If a law is unconstitutional, it doesn't exist, and hasn't from the moment of its passage. Why should The Donald obey a non-law?
But even if you don't believe the law is unconstitutional: The hypocrisy of anti-trump forces zinging him for dealing with Castro just floors me. These are the people who have made - and still make - heroes and heroines of Castro, Che Guevara, Bill Ayers, Angela Davis, and "Hanoi Jane'" Fonda, and a virtue of "Civil Disobedience" to laws they don't think are right, politically correct, or convenient. Do they REALLY think Trump's supporters would be swayed by this argument from THEM? B-)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
selected mainly due their location. This is so blunt, stupid, and clumsy, that you couldn't even attribute it to the Americans themselves. Anyone who does this sort of thing has access to tens or hundreds of thousands of compromised computers and devices on the Internet, all over the world. You CAN NOT infer who the attacker is from looking the geo-location of the IP.
they do exist ... in a separate unique separationist way , wOMGz 8-o ... white men can hack WOMG
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?
It may not be proof, but how many people are looking at Donald Trump as the Bolshevik Candidate?
Haven't you seen the debate?
His kid has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable.
Sadly, that means he's gonna turn into somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.
Like the rest of us here.
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It wasn't the front page story or anything, nor was it publicized anywhere... but I'm sure there are SOME people out there feeling iffy about eating their TwinkiesTM AND the wrapper they came in.
Iffy enough to DDOS Newsweek?
Well... their TwinkieTM COULD be thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
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Truth isnâ(TM)t.
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Alternatively, Newsweek may have simply screwed up their servers and decided that blaming it on "Russian hackers" was going to give their story more credence. Or Hillary or her supporters may have engineered such attacks, for the same reason. You can't believe anything these people say.
Was that before or after they faked the Moon landing, setup Oswald as a patsy, sprinkled the chemtrails, harped on the HARP, put the autism GMOs in the vaccines and hidden the evidence of the secret Nazi cities on the Moon by destroying Twin Towers with fluoride in the water?
Or did it all happen at the same time?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
Like for example - your psychiatrist. Or whoever is prescribing them meds you're off again.
Paranoid delusion.
Not a laughing matter. Well... mostly. Sometimes. With some people.
With others it's fucking hilarious!
Get it? I said hilarious. Hillary...o...US.
It's a secret message encoded in the English language by the Masonic Lizard People of the New World Order.
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I have no doubt this story got the most attention in the mainstream press. The attack was also a few days after a Julian Assange story, for example, and Clinton/DNC stories (we know hackers have an interest in the DNC.) Might some hacker respond to a Julian Assange story? Maybe. There's simply no evidence at all as to what the hacker's motive was.
they never bother reading it so I've just been drawing squiggles on them and charging $500 bucks for a high detail tattoo.
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To throw a huge fucking monkey wrench into the machinery of the oligarchy in Washington, that's why. I'd prefer a better instrument, but you use what is at hand.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Anything they don't agree with is fascism. Call me when someone is setting up concentration camps and we can talk.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Come on! Just because Mr. Trump started chewing out that website by email doesn't mean there's a DDOS attack going on. Mr. Trump is just a Great Emailer like he's Great at everything else.
I disagree strongly. Trump has an excellent record as a first-rate con-man. You know, those that rip you off and then vanish to let you pick up the pieces. My guess would be he will do the same as president.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
You may recall 10 days ago, on Sept 20th, Krebs suffered a major DDOS. It's widely believed that was in retaliation for writing about a professional DDOS company on Sept 8 and Sept 12. He wrote about people who do DDOS for a living, and twelve days later he got hit.
> Days later when the cover story was something else?
Yeah, twelve days later, in the case of the most recent major attack, and that's from someone who was already set up to do DDOS. If someone else decides to do a DDOS, it might well take them two weeks or more to get the botnet reserved and paid for and coordinate everything.
Since it takes a major professional DDOS company twelve days to coordinate and launch an attack, that's evidence that these attackers probably did NOT manage one just a few hours after the Trump story. In all likelihood, they aren't hundreds of times faster than VDOS and friends, so they would have need more than 12 days, not less than one day.
Borrowing money from Russian banks is not illegal.
It may look bad politically since most of them have close ties to Putin, but there is nothing illegal or even immoral about it.
It only gets illegal if those debts are "forgiven" in exchange for something and the loans get turned into bribes that way, but that has not happened (and may never happen).
It's just a very funny thing since it's an action that's pretty well the opposite of the line that Trump has been pushing.
As for evidence, it's been widely reported but it's not illegal.
Here's one (from a google search) that cites the Washington Post but it's turned up everywhere - check whatever news source you use:
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/yes-the-russians-have-been-funding-donald-trumps-presidential-campaign/25479/
You think it's more likely that Russian hackers conspired with Donald Trump to keep Hillary from becoming president by starting a DDOS on Newsweek? That is the nutty conspiracy theory.
BTW, that's a nice canard.
Not that I'm judging your propensity towards aquatic fowl or its food, but no one is claiming that Putin and Trump actually conspired - just that the Trump is an useful idiot for Putin and Palls.
No... Wait... YOU ARE THE ONE CLAIMING THAT!
Cause that's how you looney brain works. Conspiracies everywhere.
Oh... and BTW... Speaking of "more realistic theories"...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...
Oh... Looney, Looney, Looney... Whatever would we do without duck fuckers and fish rapers like you?
Who would we laugh at? Cats? I don't THINK SO...
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