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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 0xbadc0de5 »

bawolff wrote: post #51
negzero7 wrote: post #15

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The protest is super unpopular in canada. It could just as easily be a random canadian citizen who is pissed about the protest and wants to prove that the protest is not grass roots but foreign meddling.

The protest is super unpopular among certain politicians, certain state sponsored media, and certain supporters of those politicians and media. However, there are a very large number who support ending all lockdowns and mandates immediately - as evidenced by their ability to raise money, repeatedly, as well as by the physical presence of so many supporters across the globe.

That said, I agree this is most likely the work of an individual. For all its usefulness in raising money, GSG has probably never been subjected to a real-world pentest by a highly motivated attacker. Not to mention the legions of attackers one would expect from such a polarising subject. This was unfortunate but entirely predictable.

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Post by defaultname »

rvz wrote: post #43
defaultname wrote: post #16

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Alternately, yet another right wing "alternative" site had poor security practices and got exploited. They had S3 buckets full of customer data sitting open for some time, and they stayed accessible days after it was widely known.

Exactly. Just like GoDaddy and Twitch had poor security with everything that they stored on their servers from PII and source code getting breached and leaked by hackers right? [0] [1] I'm sure everyone was happy with that hackivism and those guys should have gotten their security right the first time. /s Can't wait for someone else to say, 'Security is so hard' but also cheer on hackers that breach sites they don't…

I don't think whataboutism is productive. Nor did I "cheer on" anything: It sucks when people are exploited by incompetent actors.

We've repeatedly watched as "the mainstream restricts us so we'll do our own thing" sites are built with absolutely rudimentary security faults. They're rushed, have a very eager and non-discretionary userbase that is chomping at the bit. They usually have compromised motivations.

And then they fall. It has become sadly predictable.

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Post by bawolff »

Bud wrote: post #87
jeromegv wrote: post #27

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I mean if you are Canadian or Québécois, there is no denying that Trudeau father is famous for having invoqued martial law in Quebec. This is something everyone from Quebec knows and the merit of this measure has been debated and discussed for decades in various movies, books, news articles. I don't know why you are debating the source, this seems irrelevant.

I'm not Canadian and the reason I asked for a better source is not at all irrelevant. Those who are not Canadian might want a higher-quality source to learn about the topic in question. It is, obviously completely irrelevant whether "everyone in Quebec knows" this. Most users here, to put it rather mildly, are not from Quebec.

You could just look it up on wikipedia.

The october crisis is one of the most important events in modern canadian political history.

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Post by busterarm »

dang wrote: post #61
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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is anything but generic ideological flamewar here, dang. I'm clearly slamming both "tribes" for their tribalism here.

More importantly, I'm someone deeply involved with the kinds of people that would have been able to perform this kind of hack and would do so for political reasons. I am directly calling their behavior awful.

I'm explicitly condemning the doxxing of ordinary people for their political activity and frankly am shocked that you would even suggest that to be against the rules or even controversial.

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Post by 12bits »

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…

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Post by good8675309 »

peeters wrote: post #80
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…

If you're going to attack "media mischaracterizations" let's be truthful. > but because white collar, work-at-home employees are mildly inconvenienced for a week, they're advocating police action against them and calling it an insurrection. "Mildly inconvenienced" is an interesting term for shutting down a border crossing that handles $350 million in trade per day. "Mildly inconvenienced" is an interesting term for r…

The definition of an insurrection is "a violent uprising against an authority or government." Where is the violence? I'm seeing people dancing and enjoying themselves. So much joy. It's like a big festival. People are helping each other and coming together. I see families and food banks being filled, trash cleaned up. Please post videos of all the violence. Btw, you can see an endless feed of the types of events I've described on Youtube. The only violent act I saw was a confirmed antifa member running over civilians.

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Post by gpm »

hammock wrote: post #101
gpm wrote: post #81

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Because they're all symbols of foreign political figures/deceased foreign governments?

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No, but if a bunch of people flying Peurto Rican flags swarm the Texas legislature it's probably reasonable to assume that there is a degree of support from people in Puerto Rico/outside of texas.

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Post by meany »

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

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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’…

It sounds like you're saying the "ends justify the means".

Perhaps its not embarrassment that makes people want privacy, but fear of retribution. Consider someone living during the McCarthy era in the US. Speaking up could be career ending, and in the long run, if things had progressed to a more authoritarian regime, life threatening.

As one of the earlier posters said, I think many people see a slide into authoritarianism on both sides of the political spectrum. And it strikes me, that not being able to have secrets or privacy supports authoritarianism more than furthering democracy.

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Post by smrtinsert »

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…

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Post by ars »

DoctorOW wrote: post #69
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…

> the unvaccinated would have immunity from just the one variant and not all of them uniformly

And "the vaccinated" have immunity from just one protein, from one variant, which is even lower.

If anything recovered people have better immunity, not worse.

The best strategy right now is to get vaccinated, and also get Omicron - then you have the best of both worlds, without the risk. But someone who took the risk, and recovered, is perfectly safe.

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