I'm not sure what we're looking at there, but it's something I probably shouldn't have clicked on.
Yeah, I really would have appreciated some warning for that.
I also, don't want my traffic to be tied to forums like this.
Iranian Hackers Post Images Over JFK Airport From UAV That Was Hijacked In March
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Re: Iranian Hackers Post Images Over JFK Airport From UAV That Was Hijacked In March
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
...why? Because it's arabic? Ooohhh, scary arabic. Or they're talking about spies and bombs? Don't we talk about those things on hacker news too? I can't read it, I'm working my way through the google translation and just starting, so maybe it's all "bad" stuff, but to be honest, I hope iranians can shed some light on what our government is doing - the US government itself certainly isn't going to help with that.
Actually the challenge is drive-by injection not the site per-se. Chrome didn't flag it as such but if you spend time crawling the web you will notice that it is a not-unusual weapon in the arsenal to put up a web site, and have it inject visitors with a tracking cookie/script/trojan. Sort of a variation on honeypots. Thus it helps to be alert when popping into such sites.
If you know enough to be scared of drive-by injections, it's better to use NoScript than rely on other people always giving warnings. What if the poster (with an account 4 days old) was actively trying to be malicious, and nobody had noticed it yet?
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#53Re: Iranian Hackers Post Images Over JFK Airport From UAV That Was Hijacked In March
#54I'm not sure what we're looking at there, but it's something I probably shouldn't have clicked on.
In case anyone doubted the self-censoring chilling effects of pervasive surveillance were real.
What are the consequences for our society of us fearing to click on links that they may turn out to be foreign propaganda?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I checked reverse engineering forums weren't forbidden by the thought police.
He actually has a point, sadly. Visiting a "Jihadist" website, based on some arbitrary definition and interpretation from some cyber freedom fighter in DC, VA, or MD, is enough to get your "metadata" added to their graphs. You think Iranian sites with posts about hacking the US aren't on that list? I don't. It's not enough to get you a visit from the feds or anything, but it's almost certain that any competent intell…
Is this really the point we've reached? Where people with no intention of being a terrorist are bothered about visiting a site because they know everything they do is being observed?
If we've reached the point of self censoring behaviour, then we're definitely in the Panopticon.
The harder it becomes to break out of our filter bubbles, the more foreigners will look alien, strange and scary :(
Re: Iranian Hackers Post Images Over JFK Airport From UAV That Was Hijacked In March
#56Just because you can use MSPaint to draw some text on some images doesn't mean you're a hacker. Get it right HN!
Re: Iranian Hackers Post Images Over JFK Airport From UAV That Was Hijacked In March
#57My take on this is that someone is claiming that the UAV that crashed in Iran (supposedly hacked) had images on its hard drive of the JFK airport. That person is basically claiming that the UAV was at one point flown over JFK airport at some previous time before the US moved the UAV to the middle east.
The person does not claim that. Where did you draw this from?
I said "my take" because i, like other hn readers have no idea what I am looking at so I made a guess. You are the poster, you can explain what is going on here.
Re: Iranian Hackers Post Images Over JFK Airport From UAV That Was Hijacked In March
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I checked reverse engineering forums weren't forbidden by the thought police.
He actually has a point, sadly. Visiting a "Jihadist" website, based on some arbitrary definition and interpretation from some cyber freedom fighter in DC, VA, or MD, is enough to get your "metadata" added to their graphs. You think Iranian sites with posts about hacking the US aren't on that list? I don't. It's not enough to get you a visit from the feds or anything, but it's almost certain that any competent intell…
So a bunch of us boring old HN types clicking on it are just going to make the haystack bigger. Let them add all of us, it'll just make more work for them.
Re: Iranian Hackers Post Images Over JFK Airport From UAV That Was Hijacked In March
#59Just yo let you know those text on photos are basically mystic poems. One of the tools Iranian propaganda uses
Translating this forum is hard. They uses a specific language that has tons of reference to the way Iranian government sees the world. For example they never say "Israel", they would say instead "Usurper Regime". Because they never recognize Israel as a country. What we have here is a forum by Iranian semi-military force "Basij". They bluff all the time and you never know what is truth. They have no shame in photosho…
> Translating this forum is hard. They uses a specific language...
I'm always fascinated by the way these people's minds seem to work! Reading his posts, this "DarkPassenger" fellow seems even crazier than our good HN friend losethos: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
...why? Because it's arabic? Ooohhh, scary arabic. Or they're talking about spies and bombs? Don't we talk about those things on hacker news too? I can't read it, I'm working my way through the google translation and just starting, so maybe it's all "bad" stuff, but to be honest, I hope iranians can shed some light on what our government is doing - the US government itself certainly isn't going to help with that.
It's Persian :) Very similar script, completely different language family. Persian is closer to English than Arabic.
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