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Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Looks like they are actively distributing child pornography. They should be charged.

How do you figure that?

I was under the impression that they were planting files on the user's computer to incriminate them. I don't really understand where this code is getting it's payload from though.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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You know, this is what I keep asking myself about all the fine folks in defense, developing the newest fucking weapons/plane/gun/drone/whatever which _will_ be used people in other countries. We should introduce a "walk away from your job"-kickstarter thing to encourage leaving those positions.

A nation's strong defensive capabilities deter action. If Ukraine had NATO level arms that could counter Russia's weapons, there would be no war in Ukraine right now. Instead, their military is all Soviet relics that current-gen and even most last-gen Russian arms can easily overrun; thus the Russian led artillery, Russian led AA, Russian led forces, and Russian special ops making mincemeat of their military. Its inc…

> Its incredible how people pretend deterrence isn't real or a social benefit.

It's incredible how people pretend deterrence is for social benefit. It brought us already once near a global atomic war. Remember?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

We would live in a better world without nuclear arms, that I'm 100% sure of.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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But they have guns. For some reason there is the belief that if you have guns then you are more free than someone without guns. Perhaps because the original intention was that if you have an armed population then they cannot be ruled over by means of force or they would at least be able to rise up against their opressors in a meaningful fashion. Guns in America are a bit of an opiate for the masses, people have guns…

Freedom is a feeling. If you feel free, then you are free.

That's an interesting way of looking at it, though I disagree. Consider the society depicted in Brave New World (or, more recently, District 1 in the Hunger Games).

It may be fiction, but I think it showcases a true-to-life phenomenon where people feel free only because of hyper-stimulation. Because they have so much, they don't think about everything they lack.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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A nation's strong defensive capabilities deter action. If Ukraine had NATO level arms that could counter Russia's weapons, there would be no war in Ukraine right now. Instead, their military is all Soviet relics that current-gen and even most last-gen Russian arms can easily overrun; thus the Russian led artillery, Russian led AA, Russian led forces, and Russian special ops making mincemeat of their military. Its inc…

> Its incredible how people pretend deterrence isn't real or a social benefit. It's incredible how people pretend deterrence is for social benefit. It brought us already once near a global atomic war. Remember? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis We would live in a better world without nuclear arms, that I'm 100% sure of.

The alternative to cold wars is hot wars. Do you really want another WWII (60 million dead)? The idea that peace will happen if we make shitty arms is historically untrue. The idea that peace happens when we make cutting-edge arms is historically true.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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I do not want to sound shockingly naive, but I wonder how these people can sleep at night. You've just sold software to some of the most brutal governments in the world, who will use your technology to track down and brutally torture incredibly brave human rights activists. How can you do this, and still get up in the morning while looking at yourself in the mirror? I can understand petty crime if the alternative is…

One mans freedom fighter or activist is another mans terrorist.

Besides, it is human nature to be morally flexible. Many people don't really register atrocities of any scale as long as they don't affect their daily lives.

That's not to say this isn't terrible or shameful behaviour. It's just common terrible, shameful behaviour.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

#146

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A nation's strong defensive capabilities deter action. If Ukraine had NATO level arms that could counter Russia's weapons, there would be no war in Ukraine right now. Instead, their military is all Soviet relics that current-gen and even most last-gen Russian arms can easily overrun; thus the Russian led artillery, Russian led AA, Russian led forces, and Russian special ops making mincemeat of their military. Its inc…

> Its incredible how people pretend deterrence isn't real or a social benefit. It's incredible how people pretend deterrence is for social benefit. It brought us already once near a global atomic war. Remember? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis We would live in a better world without nuclear arms, that I'm 100% sure of.

> It brought us already once near a global atomic war.

I think we disagree on how important that 'almost' is as a result, and what the alternative was / is.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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How do you figure that?

I was under the impression that they were planting files on the user's computer to incriminate them. I don't really understand where this code is getting it's payload from though.

It seems like that code just builds random-ish data that conforms to the wanted file format and then gives it incriminating names. For example:

[1] https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/38290d4eab2b2c...

[2] https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/38290d4eab2b2c...

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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> Its incredible how people pretend deterrence isn't real or a social benefit. It's incredible how people pretend deterrence is for social benefit. It brought us already once near a global atomic war. Remember? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis We would live in a better world without nuclear arms, that I'm 100% sure of.

The alternative to cold wars is hot wars. Do you really want another WWII (60 million dead)? The idea that peace will happen if we make shitty arms is historically untrue. The idea that peace happens when we make cutting-edge arms is historically true.

No for fucks sake, the alternative to hot/cold wars is peace.

The idea that we have less dead when access to any kind of arms is heavily restricted, how about that?

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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I'm on windows trying to download this. qBittorent gives an error message on import, utorrent does nothing (0% metadata loaded) and transmission loads metadata to 100 % and then starts over. In the logfile it says: "[ERROR] Hacked Team: Invalid metadata entry "path"". Transmission version is 2.84 (14386). Is there anyone loading this torrent on windows?

The magnet link didn't work for me. But then I tried using http://infotomb.com/eyyxo.torrent instead, which worked immediately with Transmission 2.90 (OSX) and Tixati (Windows). btw: The MD5 of eyyxo.torrent is 26183ae8f24e798a15d77dd3476f5ed9 I mirrored the torrent file on my server in case infotomb gets offline again: https://hecker.io/eyyxo.torrent

You could also throw it up on Torcache, since that's basically its entire purpose: just a dedicated .torrent mirror.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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> Its incredible how people pretend deterrence isn't real or a social benefit. It's incredible how people pretend deterrence is for social benefit. It brought us already once near a global atomic war. Remember? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis We would live in a better world without nuclear arms, that I'm 100% sure of.

> It brought us already once near a global atomic war. I think we disagree on how important that 'almost' is as a result, and what the alternative was / is.

True. One alternative was/is still nuclear de-foresting.
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