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So from what I've read so far they are trying to deanonymize TOR users by having a large number of relays in the network. This isn't an unknown attack vector. But surely the NSA could easily do the same. What's to say that half the relays aren't already NSA owned?
PLEASE stop calling them hackers. They're DDoS kiddies who have now switched to spinning up TOR on their botnet. THESE ARE NOT HACKERS.
But I still have to drop a line: please arrest these "hackers" / "crackers" / cyber criminals.
Kim Dotcom gave them 3000 Mega accounts yesterday, and now they seem to have created 3000 relays. Is the number just a coincidence, or are they doing it through those accounts somehow? http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-stops-xbox-and-playstatio...
Those are simply file hosting accounts, so there's ability to run something like a Tor node from them. More likely is they're using the same botnet that was attacking PSN/XBL to run Tor relays.
For Tor network status and node list: https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ All names appear to begin with LizardNSA. It must be said, however, that all exit and non-exit nodes go through acceptance process over 88 days https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay
But it appears this is all running from Google's Compute Engine. They can easily shut it down, although they're probably using stolen credit cards, so there's no real traceability there.
They appear to be using Google Compute instances (based upon the IP addresses) to create TOR relays but since they are not exit nodes I'm not really sure what they are hoping to achieve.
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At this point Hack is just a marketing/media term and Lisp nerds from MIT no longer have any say in the matter. Let it go.
That kind of attitude is why we have people denying global warming. Terms have meaning, allowing idiots to try to muddy the waters hurts all of mankind. It has nothing to do with "Lisp nerds from MIT".
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At this point Hack is just a marketing/media term and Lisp nerds from MIT no longer have any say in the matter. Let it go.
That kind of attitude is why we have people denying global warming. Terms have meaning, allowing idiots to try to muddy the waters hurts all of mankind. It has nothing to do with "Lisp nerds from MIT".
I think this may be a slight on the this site being called "hacker news" and while PG is a "lisp nerd", he never attended MIT.
The thing I fear the most is cyber retaliation. So many of us have accounts on the Internet that matter to us day to day. If they are reading this (I am damn sure they are), and if they don't like you, they will try to take over your accounts and make fun of you. Fear is the most destructive and most effective weapon and such weapon is most terrible when targeting at individuals. But I still have to drop a line: plea…