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Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by h_anna_h »

southerntofu wrote: post #121
vmception wrote: post #13

> OFFICIAL ANONYMOUS (not to be confused with 'Anonymous Official' grifters) They should sign an ethereum address to reduce ambiguity (Any crypto asset address is fine, even PGP is good enough for this but PGP had 25 years to make that user friendly and common but failed, and cryptocurrencies made signing software more prevalent and uniform wayyyyy faster)

"PGP" is an algorithm, not an organization or movement, so you can't really say it failed. The algorithm is pretty good, though some implementations are really bad, and most programs who embed it have bad UX. However, there's still some very good programs with good UX making use of PGP (for example delta.chat), and to this day no cryptomoney scam wallet has ever been as useful as PGP has over the years.

> The algorithm is pretty good

It really isn't. It uses CFB and does not have a MAC, while the format is overly complicated for no reason.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

genr8 wrote: post #143

One step closer to anarcho-tyranny. Anonymous has become the Antifa of the Internet. Basically a far-left strike force, cloaked but public, with enough plausible deniability that the 3 letter agencies allow to exist because they can do things beyond the law - as long as they dont go after the gov... One has to wonder why they are so focused on [Combating far right extremism and misinformation] when it's clearly desig…

Quite a LARP you have going on there.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by oefrha »

kadoban wrote: post #14
gfodor wrote: post #11

Eventually the cloud is going to burst and everyone’s data will be public. The motive will be similar to this one, where a huge blast radius of collateral damage is accepted in the name of harming bad people. Seeing people eagerly download this data that surely includes countless amounts of personal info of non-Nazis shows this clearly.

How many just regular folks would actually pick Epik? Why?

Find me a service open to the public and I’ll find you “nazi” customers by someone’s definition. Hell, people were and probably still are “boycotting” GitHub (as in, they put feel-good slogans in their profile while still using it) a while ago for having U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement as a customer. I’m sure if someone manages to completely hack GitHub, they will post everyone’s private repos and billing info, and it’s a just cause because GitHub hosts code for horrible people.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by [deleted] »

Thorrez wrote: post #62

Lest anyone be confused, this is Epik the web hosting company[1], not Epic Games the videogame company[2], or Epic Systems the healthcare software company[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

southerntofu wrote: post #124
throwawepik wrote: post #23

There is a .swp file in the torrent: > strings .whois.sql.swp b0nano 5.4 anonymous datahound whois.sql I tested on my machine and nano swap files contain the nano version (5.4), the username (anonymous), the hostname (datahound) and the filename (whois.sql).

Nice catch! I downvoted though, because helping to deanonymize antifascist hackers is against my ethics.

So you are saying that this Epik company was run by fascists?

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by h_anna_h »

southerntofu wrote: post #119
Beaver117 wrote: post #46

I don't get it, didn't anonymous start on 4chan? Why are they attacking this company which is hosting similar content? I thought anonymous used to only attack megacorps

Parts of the anonymous trend started on 4chan. However not everyone involved with anonymous is/was involved with 4chan, and it was also at a time when 4chan was more of an anonymous meme board and less of a pedo/nazi aggregator. Anonymous doesn't only attack megacorps. First because anonymous is not a group so there's no central leadership to decide who to attack. Second because they're overall involved with fighting…

> and it was also at a time when 4chan was more of an anonymous meme board and less of a pedo/nazi aggregator.

I will have to disagree here. The amount of illegal pedo content has dramatically decreased over the years. You would see people spamming it all the time around ~2008-2013 in /b/, while nowadays it is much more likely that you will see such content while browsing facebook.

As for nazi content, there are a lot more things that are considered nazi these days that were common back (such as calling people slurs as a generic insult), although since around the time of gamergate the amount of unironic actual nazis skyrocketed (as part of a wider social radicalization) and they stopped being shamed as much when posting in unrelated boards.

> Also, depending on your understanding of what a megacorp is, Epik may very well qualify.

I think that this is stretching the definition. I believe that most people would consider something of the size and reach of cokecola and mcdonalds as megacorps.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by capableweb »

qeternity wrote: post #138
jungleanimal wrote: post #111

Anonymous strikes again, this time with a well known web registration company with a decade of data. This is a blatant example how poor security management leads to the hardship of thousands if not millions of regular people. Now their private details have a risk of being public and fully open to scrutiny. And its not just some simple data breach they allegedly stole domain purchases and transfers, account credential…

Epik’s lack of security is the least damning thing about Epik. Google around for their very colorful history. These are bad hombres.

Could you share something damning instead of referring people to search, as we probably will find different information.

As far as I can tell, Epik focused on hosting and DNS management for marginalized/excluded groups on the internet, so naturally they attract a lot of groups. Not sure why that'd be bad though.

Things like this also makes me actually like the company more:

> Pharmaceutical watchdog website LegitScript reported in 2018 that they had alerted Epik to the sale of illegal drugs and counterfeit medications on websites registered by Epik, and that Epik had refused to act upon the information without a court order

That's exactly how I want my hosting company to act, and any that don't are actively fragile.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

woodruffw wrote: post #148
Beaver117 wrote: post #46

I don't get it, didn't anonymous start on 4chan? Why are they attacking this company which is hosting similar content? I thought anonymous used to only attack megacorps

One of the saddest and most effective media coups of the last decade has been the far right convincing the public that 4chan was always theirs. It started as an anonymous image board, one that an incredible number of people left when it became apparent that neo-Nazis had Poe’s Lawed themselves into the dominant user base. > I thought anonymous used to only attack megacorps Various individuals or groups labeling thems…

They aren't that far off. 4chan was always about counter culture.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

genr8 wrote: post #143

One step closer to anarcho-tyranny. Anonymous has become the Antifa of the Internet. Basically a far-left strike force, cloaked but public, with enough plausible deniability that the 3 letter agencies allow to exist because they can do things beyond the law - as long as they dont go after the gov... One has to wonder why they are so focused on [Combating far right extremism and misinformation] when it's clearly desig…

Is being anti-fascist a bad thing now? Wasn't there a bloody war fought over that?

I thought the default was to be against fascism? It's the kind of thing where you approve of it if you're not explicitly against it.

Also, are you implying Epik is fascist? I mean you're not wrong.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by [deleted] »

banana_giraffe wrote: post #7

Looks like the seeder is gone, but they were online just barely briefly enough to get the torrent metadata. For those that are curious what's in there: https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/57f3825493d04867c3d192fd93...

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