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4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Yesterday, as groups across the country hit the final stretch of their get-out-the-vote campaigns, workers at NextGen Climate noticed some problems with their automated dialer program. As the team started its morning hours, the program used to initiate and monitor voter calls was suddenly clunky, and cut out entirely for crucial hours in the afternoon. The downtime wasn't a coincidence. Just after midnight on Sunday night, a post on 4chan's /pol/ board announced an impending denial-of-service attack on any tools used by the Clinton campaign, employing the same Mirai botnet code that blocked access to Twitter and Spotify last month. One of those targets was TCN, the Utah-based call center company that runs NextGen's dialer. According to the post's author, the company was also providing phone services to Hillary Clinton's offices in Nevada. "List targets here that if taken out could harm Clinton's chances of winning and I will pounce on them like a wild animal," the post reads. "Not sleeping until after this election is over." TCN confirmed the outage in a statement, describing the attack as "fairly sophisticated in nature." According to the statement, "the primary impacts were a slow site and a few brief periods of unavailability." The statement also makes it clear that NextGen Climate was far from the only group slowed down by the outage. TCN manages calling services for 2000 different clients, with a particularly brisk business during campaign season handling "everything from inbound information IVRs, outbound surveys to volunteer outreach."
I hate this sort of thing, generally speaking... but bringing down an auto-dialer farm seems like a net plus for humanity.
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Someone needs to stop this 4chan guy before he strikes again!
I hate autodialers / automated calls with a passion. Also, tough luck for Hillary. Why would anyone want a president that out-corrupts anything Trump could aspire to?
That hacker 4chan at it again.
If you voted for Killary you probably eat shit out of the asshole of a faggot.
If you voted for Chump you probably eat shit out of the asshole of a faggot.
is it safe to assume we mean "Russia"?
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Obligatory: Who is this 4chan?
They just want to see the world burn with trump at the wheel.
courtesy of Robot 9001
Doesn't look like it's going to make any difference.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I voted for Trump, and I hate getting these calls as much as anyone. But disrupting election efforts like this is morally wrong. It's unfair to the party that's getting attacked, and it's an attack against having a free and fair election.
My pet frog, Pepe got loose and was jumping on my keyboard.
Have gnu, will travel.
Next time bring ALL of the auto-dialers down. Politician @$$holes gave themselves an exemption from the do-not-call list.
Why is it that the archive link is down? Why is nobody talking about it?
..and nothing of value was lost
If you didn't know today was Election Day, and hadn't made up your mind yet, do us all a favor and don't vote.
Seriously. People who might have benefited from these calls are clearly not really making an informed, thought-out decision if they are this out-of-touch.
People just google "comet ping pong pizza" "also podesta pedos on reddit" wake up sheep...
I cannot in any way abide the taking down of robo-callers, unless the robo-callers are trying to sell me stuff. Political robo-callers are off-limits.
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Seriously, I wish these d dudes would take down some of the four or five robo-caller that annoy me each and every day. The political garbage will end tomorrow. But the "cheaper electircal rates" garbage will live on....
Pro-Hillary phone-lines down? No problem, just use email ... oh, wait
Table-ized A.I.
I agree with you, I hate seeing this kind of thing no matter who does it. Wikileaks has faced a ton of DDoS attacks as well, especially this week.
No. That's civil disobedience with a wholly optional publicity component.
Civil disobedience (in the US) is disobeying a law because your position is that the law is invalid, unethical, immoral or unconstitutional (which in many people's minds is a subset of invalid.)
This may be of interest -- it's a fairly specific discussion of suffering the consequences of the law as it relates to the validity of civil disobedience.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I never solicit automated dialing. I find it offensive.
If you deliver a recording or a synthesized voice to my phone, I will hang up on it.
If various operations can't be bothered to put a person to work, someone who at least might have the flexibility to respond to my inquiries, direct me where I need to go to deal with issues, etc., I can't be bothered to give them any of my time.
When real AI gets here and if as a consequence people's employment isn't a critical factor WRT to their level of stress and/or suffering, I will most likely moderate that stance.
But until then, IMHO, this stuff is not good for society at large. I can't support it. I won't support it.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
If Trump wins, then Russia gets the keys to all those backdoors the NSA has been putting in, so Russia has a vested interest in putting their Trumpsky into power.
> You don't mess with of our elections for free - you face consequences
That very much depends on who you are (or who your husband used to be). Also WHERE you are. In some counties, the local Democrat party is openly committing felony vote buying- the votes bought include the local prosecutor etc.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, he has repeatedly taken credit among blackhat circles for all of this Mirai botnet bullshit.
The fact that he hasn't wound up with a bullet in his shit-filled head is honestly a mystery to me, but at this point all I can figure is that the relevant authorities are letting him run roughshod over the world in order to come up with actual charges that they can press against him.
The little shit is nothing more than a sociopath, one of those smug dipshits that exists in every classroom who only ever raises his hands in order to give some smug, smart-ass answer that only him and his equally socially stunted friends find funny. The world would be better off without him in it, but I'll settle for him being behind bars, as opposed to being on the years of "probation" that his father managed to wrest for his pwecious wittwe bwoy thanks to his dad's money.
TCN confirmed the outage in a statement, describing the attack as "fairly sophisticated in nature."
This is exactly how I would describe a DDoS attack as well. As sophisticated as using a sledgehammer to disassemble a computer
We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. You really should have expected us, bitch.
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