Live data from Hacker News

Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor

gizmodo.com

61–70 of 169 posts

Re: Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor

#61
post #43
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're set up to be exit nodes, they just don't have the exit flag yet.

Quite a few seem to have the exit flag now. Only glanced through the first 500 or so, but it looked to be about 50 which had the exit flag

How is that possible? I was under the impression that it took a long time to be a real exit node.

Re: Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor

#62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. But if you do it over a long period... TOR has been around a while now. How can you possibly vet all owners? Surely most relay owners would prefer to remain anonymous.

Yes, I'm sure there are relays being run by the NSA and other governments. But people monitor the creation of new relays an attempt to determine who is running them. It's not a simple task to fool everyone.

Since a large part of initial Tor development was funded by the US Navy and then DARPA, I think it's a safe bet that the NSA et al. have been doing this ever since the first public release.

Re: Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor

#64
post #54
post #48

Tor Devs haven't made any announcement yet, there is, however, a discussion about it on the mailing list: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-Decembe... If you use Tor, I would follow the suggestion by another member of the mailing list [1], simply add to your torrc file: ExcludeNodes US StrictNodes 1 That will disallow using any US nodes, which works since all of LizardNSA's nodes are currently in t…

Supposed response from "lizards@riseup.net": > Why? I assure you, our exits are just fine. What's with people responding so negatively to us donating 360Gbit/s of exit BW? EDIT: From @lizardmafia: > To clarify, we are no longer attacking PSN or Xbox. We are testing our new Tor 0day. > Only hackers, miscreants and pedophiles use Tor.

There is a clear explanation in the same thread as to why LizardNSA's actions of adding bandwidth to the network isn't good, and in fact, potentially dangerous (not very dangerous at this moment of writing):

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-Decembe...

Re: Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor

#65
post #41

I don't get it. They attack the PSN and XBox networks. Kim Schmitz gives them 3000 vouchers for Mega to save christmas (what?) and/or the world. Then they claim, he's the reason they stopped the attacks. And then they target their next victim. My point is: one might not like Kim but he is way too smart to expect such a barter to be successful. So, given his own background, what makes him this? A stupid hero? Or is th…

> Then they claim, he's the reason they stopped the attacks.

Attacks have not been stopped though. PSN is still down (or was this morning) and Xbox Live is still under DDOS, it's just being able to mitigate it better than yesterday.

Re: Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor

#67

This isn't Fox News, can we call the things correctly, thus "crackers" in this case, pls?

The crackers instead of hackers war was lost 15 years ago.

I guess it can be won back if you convince people that calling programmers hackers and hackers crackers is hip now. Once we achieve that we can focus or more serious issues like naming Linux GNU/Linux :)

Re: Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor

#69
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite a few seem to have the exit flag now. Only glanced through the first 500 or so, but it looked to be about 50 which had the exit flag

How is that possible? I was under the impression that it took a long time to be a real exit node.

[deleted]

Re: Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor

#70

This isn't Fox News, can we call the things correctly, thus "crackers" in this case, pls?

The crackers instead of hackers war was lost 15 years ago.

Yeah, like how 'gay' can mean 'stupid' in some contexts and moaning about it is pointless.
Post reply on HN