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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: 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.
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  • (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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