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Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

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Re: Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

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Post by CamatHN »

nerdy wrote: post #31
CamatHN wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who exactly would be trying to track him down? Is there some global force that would be active on him?

HT, Gamma, victims we aren't aware of, or any government who could believably threaten to prosecute then offer a deal for cooperation? Some people even do it out of curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11304752

Thats the thing, HT or Gamma without the co-operation of international law enforcement presumably would have a very hard time finding these people in a legal manner. So whats going on up there.

Re: Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

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Post by Kristine1975 »

celticninja wrote: post #21
e12e wrote: post #20

Wow, this is great. Feels like reading phrack in the 90s. Anyone know of similar, contemporary resources on hacking? This stuff is gold: > NoSQL, or rather NoAuthentication, has been a great gift to the hacker community [1]. Just when I was worrying that all MySQL's sins of omission had finally been patched [2][3][4][5], these new databases appear, lacking authentication by design. Nmap found a few in Hacking Team's…

There was another one on the finisher attack, also on paste bin that is Worth a read.

Namely this one: http://pastebin.com/raw/cRYvK4jb (also linked in the OP's link).

Re: Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

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Post by dazhbog »

josemrb wrote: post #35
espadrine wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This text is a translation. The original is in Spanish. It might have its own mistakes and traces, although I am not knowledgeable to detect country-specific patterns. http://pastebin.com/raw/GPSHF04A Presumably, given that they talk about EU culture^W^W^W^W (see comment below) have a https://securityinabox.org/es/… link, the author is from Spain, which would make it easier to pinpoint an origin, as Spain has a wider…

After reading the original doc, by the style used and some slang (although it could be on purpose), I would say the author is from Chile. I'm glad to find people that still fight the system in this side of the world.

"weones culiaos" sounds pretty Chilean indeed!

Re: Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

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Post by tomlong »

simula67 wrote: post #18

> with just one hundred hours of work Yeah, right. Most of the tools and knowledge he used would have taken much longer than that to acquire.

I think they're saying that's how much time it took them from the position they started from. Obviously if you have to learn it all and study its going to take an order of magnitude or two longer.

Re: Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

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Post by nikcub »

mintplant wrote: post #14

> As far as I know, there's no free way of making inverse whois queries Whoisology [1] is good for this, though they've been more aggressively pushing their paid options as of late. Also WhoisMind [2], to some extent. [1] https://whoisology.com/ [2] http://www.whoismind.com/

Free alternative for anonymous requests is to hit the google caches, ex.

    site:whois.domaintools.com "Y Combinator"
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Awhois.domaintoo...

Re: Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

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Post by carlom »

sklivvz1971 wrote: post #22

> I want to dedicate this guide to the victims of the assault on the Armando Diaz school, and to all those whose blood has been spilled at the hands of Italian fascism. For those who don't know, they are referring to the 2001 Armando Diaz school attack [1] (warning: graphic), where hundreds of G8 pacific protesters were brutalized and tortured by Italian police. Whilst the police has been found guilty of this, none o…

An interesting movie about what happened at the Diaz school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaz_%E2%80%93_Don't_Clean_Up_...

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Post by [deleted] »

nicelynicely wrote: post #37
sklivvz1971 wrote: post #22

> I want to dedicate this guide to the victims of the assault on the Armando Diaz school, and to all those whose blood has been spilled at the hands of Italian fascism. For those who don't know, they are referring to the 2001 Armando Diaz school attack [1] (warning: graphic), where hundreds of G8 pacific protesters were brutalized and tortured by Italian police. Whilst the police has been found guilty of this, none o…

Italian police too scared to deal with mafia, beat students instead. Italian police have no balls.

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Re: Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

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Post by nxzero »

sklivvz1971 wrote: post #22

> I want to dedicate this guide to the victims of the assault on the Armando Diaz school, and to all those whose blood has been spilled at the hands of Italian fascism. For those who don't know, they are referring to the 2001 Armando Diaz school attack [1] (warning: graphic), where hundreds of G8 pacific protesters were brutalized and tortured by Italian police. Whilst the police has been found guilty of this, none o…

>> "hundreds of G8 pacific protesters were brutalized and tortured by Italian police. Whilst the police has been found guilty of this, none of the policemen is serving any jail time."

If police commit crimes, they must be held accountable.

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