Hacktivism, leaktivism and the future
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Hacktivism, leaktivism and the future
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#2Anybody interested in fighting corruption in the EU hit me up.
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#3Anybody interested in fighting corruption in the EU hit me up.
Not quite sure what that entails, but I'm always down for a good shakeup.
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#4As someone who has grown up around and knows many of the world's most notable hackers, it never fails to surprise me about the ignorance of the law demonstrated by "hacktivists" and other so-called "white hats".
The hero worship of MalwareTech, despite the fact that he absolutely committed crimes _which he plead guilty to_ is often the biggest clue.
As much as you can think you're on Team GoodGuy, if you commit crimes there are consequences for it. The feigned surprise and rallycrying needs to end. grugq's talk on OPSEC is step one. You're not a brand, don't sell fucking merch!
If you're doing "research" or "freedom-fighting" and it runs afoul of local laws, don't be surprised that the fuzz breaks your door in one night just because you couldn't stop yourself from chasing a bit of personal fame in the process. And as someone who knows most of these people, the vast majority are ego-driven.
At least the black hats are honest about who they are and what they do. And you don't hear about most of them because constantly seeking attention hurts their wallet.
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#5Anybody interested in fighting corruption in the EU hit me up.
Do I get a junior agent badge?
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#6Ahhhhhhh, well....
> "As a show of gratitute[sic], the U.S. government had the Swiss police move up a raid of Tillie's apartment by a week.
Maybe that had to do with the Nissan hack a few months prior, or the intel hack in 2020...
> "In January 2021, Kottmann was involved in a source code leak from Nissan,"
> "On August 6, 2020, Kottmann uploaded more than 20 gigabytes of Intel's proprietary data and source code to Mega"
I recently listened to the latest episode of the Darknet Diaries and it really opened my eyes to how careful actual white hat hackers are. There are huge/subtle lines that they dare do not cross, which Tillie, sure as hell crossed :
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/87/
> "The group collected about 5 gigabytes of data, including live security camera footage and recordings from more than 150,000 cameras in places like a Tesla factory, a jail in Alabama, a Halifax Health hospital, and residential homes"
Exploiting the data breach AND THEN disclosing is not "white hat" hacking
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#7Ahhhhhhh, well.... > "As a show of gratitute[sic], the U.S. government had the Swiss police move up a raid of Tillie's apartment by a week. Maybe that had to do with the Nissan hack a few months prior, or the intel hack in 2020... > "In January 2021, Kottmann was involved in a source code leak from Nissan," > "On August 6, 2020, Kottmann uploaded more than 20 gigabytes of Intel's proprietary data and source code to M…
Nailed it. Real researchers are super careful.
And as much as I personally prefer full disclosure to "responsible disclosure", this isn't that either.
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#8As someone who has grown up around and knows many of the world's most notable hackers, it never fails to surprise me about the ignorance of the law demonstrated by "hacktivists" and other so-called "white hats". The hero worship of MalwareTech, despite the fact that he absolutely committed crimes _which he plead guilty to_ is often the biggest clue. As much as you can think you're on Team GoodGuy, if you commit crime…
100%. The amount of people chasing SCENE cred is crazy.
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#9As someone who has grown up around and knows many of the world's most notable hackers, it never fails to surprise me about the ignorance of the law demonstrated by "hacktivists" and other so-called "white hats". The hero worship of MalwareTech, despite the fact that he absolutely committed crimes _which he plead guilty to_ is often the biggest clue. As much as you can think you're on Team GoodGuy, if you commit crime…
100%. The amount of people chasing SCENE cred is crazy.
It's so much worse on the professional side of things. The number of glamorous security jobs is extremely tiny compared to all of the "SOC2 Compliance" checklist jobs out there. They've created the same kind of status economy that plagues academia to the point where you're on the "publish or die"/"be somebody on twitter or die" treadmill.
As a result, I've seen so much recycled research trying to be passed around as new work by people trying to make a name for themselves it's unbearable.
This especially happens in the crypto space, where you can take any basic concept like "Basic XSS Vulnerabilities", but applied to popular crypto exchanges and conferences will book your talk.
The number of people out there doing genuine cool shit (the kinda stuff you see in PoC||GTFO) are few and far between these days.
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#10It’s incredible to me that people can applaud for the illegal activities of hacktivists like donk enby or the ddos secrets people (https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/DDoSecrets:About) but aggressively accuse their political opponents of “doxxing” for recording crimes by rioters or antifa in public spaces.
If it isn’t apparently already, hacktivists are by and large just a criminal arm of the progressive political machine. You aren’t going to find these groups exposing the activities and private communications of left leaning groups. Using criminality for political goals is terrorism, and this group should be labeled as such. Twitter and other platforms seem to be giving them safe harbor, however, even though they’re willing to censor others so readily.