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posted by on Tuesday February 07 2017, @08:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-do-we-know-the-percentage? dept.

The Dark Web is having a rough time right now... although the victims in this case won't earn too much sympathy. An Anonymous-linked hacker speaking to Motherboard brought down about a fifth of the Tor network's 'secret' websites (over 10,000 of them) in a claimed vigilante move. The intruder decided to attack a Dark Web hosting service, Freedom Hosting II, after discovering that it was managing child porn sites it had to be aware of -- they were using gigabytes of data each when the host officially allows no more than 256MB. Each site had its usual pages replaced with a message that not only chastised FH2, but offered a data dump (minus user info) and explained the nature of the hack.

Reportedly, the attack wasn't difficult. The hacker only needed to have control over a site (new or existing) to get started. After that, it was mostly a matter of modifying a configuration file, triggering a password reset and getting root access.

From early indications, the perpetrator is handling the data relatively responsibly. It's going to a security researcher who'll hand it over to law enforcement, which might just use it to bust the porn peddlers.

Source:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/05/hack-knocks-out-fifth-of-dark-web/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:19PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:19PM (#464294) Journal

    Something is definitely hidden in those taxes. Maybe something illegal. Or maybe his tiny hands aren't even as big as he would like us to think they are.

    It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.

    It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.

    But I think that the most likely reason of all,

    May have been that his wallet is two sizes too small.

    Londo Mollari: My shoes are too tight.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:44PM

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:44PM (#464304)

    Abso-fucking-lutely. There is a combination of Unaoil and the Panama Papers in Donald Trump's activities. This administration is the epitome of a "pay-to-play" presidency that was the primary existential threat posed by Hillary and her supporters. Except, now Trump is giving the position of Secretary of Education to a wholly unqualified elite that only wishes to destroy it and replace it with private profits and Christian values like outing LGBTQ children and ostracizing them. Her insane psycho brother has the same feelings and is directing Trump's CIA activities from the side.

    How fucking convenient that both she and he gave millions to Trump huh? That's the just the tip of the iceberg with his appointments.

    The bottom line, is that all Presidential candidates have released their taxes specifically to show clean hands to the electorate. Trump is the first person to refuse to show his tiny ass hands so we can check if they're clean.

    I'm mostly serious. The hackers around the world should unite against Donald Trump (like Anonymous has threatened to do) and "dox" the living fuck out of him and his Animal Farm reality TV show of a White House administration.

    The EPA and other departments that are being gutted and shut down didn't just serve as a regulatory body. They were the EYES and EARS that were letting us know when corporations were doing nasty disgusting immoral shit around us for profit.

    Trump has blinded us, and is appointing every Fox he can to run the hen house.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:49PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:49PM (#464312)

      Oh but but but according to my "betters" Devos is completely qualified because she said TANSTAAFL!

    • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Tuesday February 07 2017, @11:33PM

      by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday February 07 2017, @11:33PM (#464366) Journal

      I wonder how much he paid in taxes just on the IRS collecting interest on his money before he got it all back.

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    • (Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @01:32AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @01:32AM (#464397)
      We'll get trumps tax data eventually. And...

      It will be such a massive chunk of data networked across so many companies in the world he will be attacked on a billion little issues.
      We will waste BILLIONS in cash and man hours on it.
      And at the end of the day no incriminating evidence will be found. Not one damm thing. Zilch.
      The people who hate him will still hate him. The people who support him will still.

      Nothing will change and we wasted billions.

      Because despite your personal media instilled belief. He's actually not an idiot who documents his crimes like democrats.
      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 08 2017, @07:00PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday February 08 2017, @07:00PM (#464678) Journal

        So we shouldn't investigate corruption in the highest office in the land because it might be hard. Gotcha.

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by edIII on Thursday February 09 2017, @12:09AM

        by edIII (791) on Thursday February 09 2017, @12:09AM (#464823)

        It will be such a massive chunk of data networked across so many companies in the world he will be attacked on a billion little issues.

        Nope. There are only a few issues, and every fucking President and candidate has gone through this. It's so that we can evaluate his conflicts of interest and the nature of his dealings with Russia.

        Trump IS making money illegally now that he is President. That's a fucking fact. People want to let it go excusing him because he is a businessman and it's "hard". Fuck that. If you want to be President, decide to be President, and then divest yourself of any conflict of interests BEFORE you take office. Fucking Orange Anus had two months to do it, and couldn't get it done. What a great businessman.

        We will waste BILLIONS in cash and man hours on it.

        That's FUD, and pretty fucking stupid. We ARE ALREADY PAYING TO AUDIT HIM. The money is ALREADY BEING USED. It will not cost billions, and it will not cost millions. Since everyone can see them, it will be CROWDSOURCED.

        Take your FUD and shove it back where it came from.

        And at the end of the day no incriminating evidence will be found. Not one damm thing. Zilch.
        The people who hate him will still hate him. The people who support him will still.

        So the fuck what? We will have at least determined the facts, which WILL lead to the search for the truth. We NEED to establish that he has no conflicts of interest, otherwise, just give up and throw away America. What the fuck does integrity in the highest office of the land mean anymore?

        It means fucking nothing. At the end of the day, we will have restored some integrity to it, and possibly impeach a sitting President for it. OR, we will establish that Trump has no conflicts of interest and is acting properly.

        No reason to not do so, and a plethora of reasons to do so.

        Because despite your personal media instilled belief. He's actually not an idiot who documents his crimes like democrats.

        It's not a media instilled belief you stupid fuck, and your attack falls flat. Whether or not he is an idiot, is something we will find out. Your jab at democrats proves that you are just being a partisan moron with his/her head so far up Trump's fucking ass you can't be bothered to do things correctly.

        Like establishing a President's conflicts of interests before he takes office. So fucking unreasonable....

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday February 08 2017, @01:47AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday February 08 2017, @01:47AM (#464401)

    My basic guess as to what Donald Trump's tax returns would show, and why he's so resistant to releasing them: His net worth is somewhere around -$500,000,000. If any of his creditors definitively knew that, they'd all call in their debts, which would absolutely ruin him and his public image of a "successful businessman".

    Incidentally, the reason that those debts are likely foreign is that, according to Michael Bloomberg, is that word got around among rich Americans (many of whom either live or work in New York) that Trump is basically a con-artist who will rip you off given the chance. Rich people elsewhere in the world hadn't gotten that message as quickly, so he simply switched his marks to rich guys overseas.

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