I would like to see an estimate in how much a person paid in the black market to buy access to the botnets that did this. $5? $50? $100? What is the going rate for 110k requests per seconds?
Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
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Re: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not just them, but also more recent stuff like the boogaloo movement[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement Edit: RE: Antifa as a "fake label". This might be true in specific cases, but there's an actual anti-fascist movement happening as well.
Sounds like this group is developing it self along the line of /r/thedonald. Starts as a satire and slowly it shift to attracting more and more people with extremist views that replace the sarcastic group members.
I wonder if this phenomenon has more specific name than just "radicalization". "Rule of goats"[1] comes close.
[1] https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473?lang=e...
Re: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not just them, but also more recent stuff like the boogaloo movement[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement Edit: RE: Antifa as a "fake label". This might be true in specific cases, but there's an actual anti-fascist movement happening as well.
Sounds like this group is developing it self along the line of /r/thedonald. Starts as a satire and slowly it shift to attracting more and more people with extremist views that replace the sarcastic group members.
"LARP-leak"
Re: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not just them, but also more recent stuff like the boogaloo movement[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement Edit: RE: Antifa as a "fake label". This might be true in specific cases, but there's an actual anti-fascist movement happening as well.
Sounds like this group is developing it self along the line of /r/thedonald. Starts as a satire and slowly it shift to attracting more and more people with extremist views that replace the sarcastic group members.
I don't think it's likely the group started with sarcasm, more like they excused themselves with /s and Hey it's only sarcasm
Re: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
#25Anti-racism sites are being knocked offline... and some people still think that white nationalists and nazi's are completely uninvolved in the street violence we've been seeing. Yeah right. This is Anonymous/4chan M.O., and it and "Antifa" are fake labels which white nationalists are using to cloak their violent plans.
Why not arrest and interrogate the ones causing violence and find out if they’re white nationalist, antifa, or something else? It’s not like we’re forced to just spitball conspiracy theories here.
Your question seems to be: "Why don't the police do their job?"
I think you may be missing the main point of the protests.
People are out in the streets in order to bring attention to the fact that, in general, police have been doing a bad job.
Re: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
#26We are really seing the chickens comming home to roost with regards to globalisation politics of the last few decades. When the wealth growth only happens in the top few percent this is inevitable.
While in "in the last few decades" you could dream about owning a computer, today you have a supercomputer in your pocket that you can use to complain about the remainder of unresolved issues of our imperfect human society. And we are reading your messages from all the continents in the world. Think! before talking about "globalization" as inherently "bad".
Re: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't feed the trolls. This is coming from a ten minute old green account.
In addition to green usernames, a pretty common tell is the "Latin"(-ish) username. The white supremacist segment of the population loves it some Rome. It is by no means indicative, but over time, if you pay attention, you end up with a bunch of heuristics that can help you identify good-faith arguments versus malicious ones.
Usernames ending in 88 is another one. Or maybe those are all really just Dallas Cowboys fans.
Re: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
#28I would be curious to see how they differentiate between a DDoS and a sudden influx of traffic from new sources, possibly including sources hiding behind tor/vpns/whatever. To be clear, I'm sure Cloudflare is pretty good at determining what is an attack and what is not, I'm just interested in the technical details.
Same. I'm sure they're seeing a lot of traffic just out of support, curiosity, etc. Definitely would be interesting to know how they distinguish that from an attack.
Re: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like this group is developing it self along the line of /r/thedonald. Starts as a satire and slowly it shift to attracting more and more people with extremist views that replace the sarcastic group members.
I wonder if this phenomenon has more specific name than just "radicalization". "Rule of goats"[1] comes close. [1] https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473?lang=e...
We need another rule for when the ironic goatfuckers have been taken over by actual goatfuckers and the latter are now ironically pretending to be the former.
Re: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
#30Anti-racism sites are being knocked offline... and some people still think that white nationalists and nazi's are completely uninvolved in the street violence we've been seeing. Yeah right. This is Anonymous/4chan M.O., and it and "Antifa" are fake labels which white nationalists are using to cloak their violent plans.
Not just them, but also more recent stuff like the boogaloo movement[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement Edit: RE: Antifa as a "fake label". This might be true in specific cases, but there's an actual anti-fascist movement happening as well.
>but there's an actual anti-fascist movement happening as well.
Movement as in organized movement, or just more people identifying as antifa?