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American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website (ksat.com)

An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes CNN Money: An American vigilante hacker -- who calls himself "The Jester" -- has defaced the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in retaliation for attacks on American targets... "Comrades! We interrupt regular scheduled Russian Foreign Affairs Website programming to bring you the following important message," he wrote. "Knock it off. You may be able to push around nations around you, but this is America. Nobody is impressed."
In early 2015, CNN Money profiled The Jester as "the vigilante who hacks jihadists," noting he's a former U.S. soldier who now "single-handedly taken down dozens of websites that, he deems, support jihadist propaganda and recruitment efforts. He stopped counting at 179." That article argues that "the fact that he hasn't yet been hunted down and arrested says a lot about federal prosecutors and the FBI. Several cybersecurity experts see it as tacit approval."

"In an exclusive interview with CNNMoney this weekend, Jester said he chose to attack Russia out of frustration for the massive DNS cyberattack that knocked out a portion of the internet in the United States on Friday... 'I'm not gonna sit around watching these f----rs laughing at us.'"

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  1. Re:Funny, but meh by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 4, Interesting
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    Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
  2. Re: "Tacit approval"? My nose! by quax · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unsurprisingly, the Republican National Committee operated an email server for White House staff to use for partisan communications and purposes.

    So we are supposed to believe that the VP office did not produce emails for days on end during some of the most critical time stretches of the Iraq war?

    Who has been lead around on the nose exactly?

    The number of classified emails that went through Hillary's server are BTW 22. Most of them were not classified at the time, the once that were didn't have the classification in the header, they were only marked in the body.

    http://www.politico.com/story/...

    http://www.factcheck.org/2016/...