How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz' • Hacker News Board

Re: How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

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Post by FreebytesSector » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 9:18 PM UTC

jgrahamc wrote: post #12

Tossrock wrote: post #6

My bullshit detector went off somewhere around here: "CloudFlare provides performance and security for any website online.We handle more traffic through our network now than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga and Aol combined." Considering Wiki, Twitter and Amazon are all top 10 global sites, I'm having a hard time imagining someone doing more traffic than all of them put together, even disregarding the rounding error…

Here's our internal data on this. Based on page view data (values below are page views) and using the statistics from Google DoubleClick Ad Planner ( http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/ ) we have the following for the last 30 days: Wikipedia.org 6,000,000,000 Twitter.com 5,900,000,000 Amazon.com 4,900,000,000 Aol.com 5,400,000,000 Zynga.com 460,000,000 Total 22,660,000,000 Then looking at our own internal…

LuzSec did not 'disappear'. They became Anti-Sec, and they are still around.

Re: How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

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Post by drzaiusapelord » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 9:25 PM UTC

Is router/server fingerprinting really that "clever." Looks like 5 minutes with nmap and nessus.

Re: How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

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Post by drcube » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 9:39 PM UTC

How is someone trying to take down a website they don't like a "white hat" hacker?

Re: How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

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Post by AndyJPartridge » Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 11:04 PM UTC

functionform wrote: post #25

marshray wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it was a vendor interview piece with a linkbait-and-switch title. (Cloudfare didn't keep Lulzsec "safe", they kept their website up.) But NewScientist's primary audience is not web hosting specialists. So for their audience I expect it was mildly educational.

If I remember correctly some guy posted lulzsec member identities online after simply following them in irc..

Indeed, but none of them led to the arrests.

It's very likely that they were false IDs created for diversion.