The genius of launching an attack of this scale from an address space that is already jam-packed full of hackers, should not be understated. Id say that, if not for doing it live on stage, law enforcement now has a giant haystack of needles to sift through.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference
Submitted 3 months ago by fartington@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
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dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 months ago
olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Talk link?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I love this.
Also love this comments section.
Enzy@feddit.nu 3 months ago
Hope they dumped their shit on the dark web
nyankas@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, they didn’t dump it on the dark web. They‘ve dumped it on the regular web instead: okstupid.lol
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Imagine calling yourselves the “master race” but forgetting to secure your own website—maybe try mastering to host Wordpress before world domination.
Oof
Enzy@feddit.nu 3 months ago
Even better, thanks.
majster@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
1:5 gender ratio. Perfect for incels.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Don’t just stop at 3, there are so many more shitheads still out there.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
what a chad
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
This implies they could have done it earlier…
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sometimes the theatrics of shutting down a nazi site is just as important as the actual shutting down of a nazi site.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 months ago
Punching a nazi in the crowded streets so much better than in the alley. Tell them we don't want them here, period.
"This is cyberterrorism." Letting those sites do their thing without cracking down on them... I agree.
bluGill@fedia.io 3 months ago
My guess is they started the site in the first place.
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well that’s a really stupid guess
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Well that’s why you’re an idiot
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Now we need a website that we can add to that doxxes them that we can browse like a Nazi Facebook site, but frozen in time.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not that I’m against but isn’t this illegal? Probably shouldn’t showcase it publicly
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah she probably should have worn a mask and used a baller pseudonym like “Root”
bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 months ago
Yes, it’s illegal, the law absolutely would defend nazis, which is why it does not deserve our respect. Anyone who publicly breaks the law to do a good thing is a hero and deserves our respect.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cool, but I think this is exceptionally stupid. There will be cameras, Id badges, emails, all with an easy to get warrant.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Personally I admire someone who is prepared to publicly take some personal risk in order to fight white supremacists.
kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
This is an event that takes privacy very seriously, where it’s not uncommon for speakers to present evidence of crimes, and where a large antifa-flag hangs over the entrance. I think they’ll be fine.
The other two on stage where journalists, and while I’m not familiar with German law, that likely limits the police’s ability to try to get to Root through them.
If reasonable precations were taken, there will not be any evidence directly tying the person on stage to the crime, and even if there was, them being in costume leaves a lot of room for reasonable doubt about who it actually was.
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 3 months ago
I had the exact same thoughts when I first started seeing this story pop up on my news feeds. Like, this person will see the inside of a prison cell for this, especially given the type of content hosted and the current make-up of the Justice Dept. What they did was, quite literally, cyber-terrorism. Hope it was worth it, I guess, given that these sites are all back online now like it never happened.
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 3 months ago
Depends. This happened at a German conference and I assume that this person is most likely German as well. Probably shouldn’t think about getting anywhere close to the US though.
There’s still the possibility of facing prosecution in Germany. Not sure how probable that is though.
clean_anion@programming.dev 3 months ago
That data might be easily accessible, but that was a choice Root made. I think that it is a safe assumption that Root knew most vigilantes keep their identity secret and, assuming a German background, had read Section 202 of the StGB and other relevant laws and court rulings. As such, Root most likely did this despite knowing their identity is at risk. It is likely they did this publicly specifically to inspire others, though I haven’t looked at all the details and there might be a different reason.
Nothing in this comment constitutes legal advice.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
How have they done it again?
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
c/madlads
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I’m very glad my Mom, my older sibling Jeb and I DON’T visit those horrible websites
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Are we just completely forgetting that backups exist? Nearly every ISP does nightly backups. So yeah, it can be taken offline for a couple of hours, but that doesn’t stop their movement.
Areldyb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“But they’ll just heal up later” isn’t a reason not to punch a Nazi
Kilom@lemmy.world 3 months ago
When I last checked the sites were still down and the terminal also showed “Deleting Backups” in the end. Also they deleted tons of mail accounts, hosting accounts etc. Even if they manage to come back, this was a huge disruption. And they downloaded most of the data and share it with journalists, so there is even another impact.
international9@lemmy.today 3 months ago
the white race must live on ! we will prevail, like usual.
vane@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I will call it censorship, how we know who is nazi whiteout allowing them express themselves ? Let them speak so we can know !
demonsword@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tree speech absolutism is bullshit. It only empowers bigots.
vane@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I want to know all the bigots !
_g_be@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The irony of tolerating intolerant people to exist openly is that it actually erodes tolerance overall
vane@lemmy.world 3 months ago
yesssss !!! bring all the evil from people so we can name them !!!
Zier@fedia.io 3 months ago
Sadly those sites are still up.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I mean, backups exist.
Zier@fedia.io 3 months ago
But she deleted the backup.
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 3 months ago
doing it in power rangers style lol