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Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Re: Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Post by dang »

busterarm wrote: post #22

I guess that's what counts as hacktivism these days. Doxxing working class people and their supporters. It's nice to see the left and right's true colors here and how easily they pulled back the veil of opposition to reveal their true contempt for the lower classes and the real class war underpinning everything. These last two years, I have seen so much scary authoritarianism from well-meaning people using their own…

Please don't take HN threads in the direction of generic ideological flamewar. It makes the discussion much more predictable and repetitive, and usually much nastier. We're trying to avoid all that here, and you can make your substantive points without it.

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Re: Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Post by nostrademons »

albroland wrote: post #36
negzero7 wrote: post #15

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I'd think it's far more likely that GiveSendGo doesn't have the most sophisticated and well maintained tech stack and an exploit was easily found by hacktivists engaging in defacement and doxxing.

It was an open S3 bucket linked from the source code of the Freedom Convoy's donation page:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/08/ottawa-trucker-freedom-con...

Re: Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Post by mindslight »

abernard1 wrote: post #45

As one of the donors included in this hack, I am not entirely sure what they're out to accomplish. Despite eye-rolling media mischaracterizations of these truckers as you-know-whats, it's a run of the mill workers strike. It has also been extremely peaceful and frankly comical at times. (We can contrast this with the "fiery yet mostly peaceful protests" of 2020 that negatively affected working class neighborhoods and…

By spending much of your comment denigrating other protests (presumably on issues that you care less about), you are doing exactly what you claim to be condemning. Try advocating for the specific laudable goals of your own cause rather than putting others down.

Re: Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Post by dahfizz »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #50
fr33d0m_ wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I heard, "hacking" and DDoS attacks were illegal and against the law?

I don’t endorse illegal activities, ever, full stop. I speak only of the results. Don’t speak or support what you’d be embarrassed to see successfully attributed to you on the front page of a newspaper. Everyone’s opsec streak runs out eventually, and anonymity should have bounds once you’re influencing the public sphere (politics, in this case). (all of my political donations are public in FEC filings, even those I’…

Do you also support exposing homosexuals who don't want to come out?

People have a right to privacy. Stealing private information is the opposite of freedom.

Re: Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Post by czzr »

abernard1 wrote: post #45

As one of the donors included in this hack, I am not entirely sure what they're out to accomplish. Despite eye-rolling media mischaracterizations of these truckers as you-know-whats, it's a run of the mill workers strike. It has also been extremely peaceful and frankly comical at times. (We can contrast this with the "fiery yet mostly peaceful protests" of 2020 that negatively affected working class neighborhoods and…

You live in Austin and donated to support protests in Canada?

I’m curious about that - why are you actively getting involved in another country?

Re: Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Post by HappySweeney »

btbuildem wrote: post #47
jeroenhd wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It could be state sponsored hacking, but I think it's more likely to be don't by someone who got annoyed by the protests. If I had trucks honking in front of my window, I'd do whatever I could to get them to fuck off as well. No need for the state to get involved if you just piss off enough random people.

The language of the manifesto suggests someone.. irate

20 hours of air horn outside your window will make you ... irate.

Re: Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Post by bawolff »

fr33d0m_ wrote: post #48
toomuchtodo wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t this freedom? The right to donate and the right to know who did? Aren’t these donations considered speech (US centric)? Or it only distasteful when your speech and opinion is public? I support very robust free speech perspectives and freedom of speech rights, but there are also consequences for our speech (and the protections, in the US at least, are from your government only).

Last I heard, "hacking" and DDoS attacks were illegal and against the law?

So are much of the protest activity (not in general, but many of the specific activities of this protest are)

Re: Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Post by DoctorOW »

ars wrote: post #18

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From the article you linked: > For one, the new report was based on data only through November, before the U.S. booster campaign really took off. It also looked at data during the Delta wave and does not account for the surging Omicron variant.

The study doesn't take other variants into account. This is important because later findings reflect the unvaccinated would have immunity from just the one variant and not all of them uniformly. The language would have to be "recovered from all COVID variants" and the protesters have absolutely no interest in health or science.

Re: Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

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Post by gpm »

negzero7 wrote: post #15

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> the timing of this seems to point to state sponsored hacking, no?

No.

The hack was obviously politically motivated, beyond that, nothing here points towards it being state sponsored. Non-state actors are equally motivated by the timing.

The idea that the Canadian government hacked GiveSendGo is also frankly ridiculous. Our government just isn't that lawless, and they could almost certainly get this data via legal means.

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