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Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by [deleted] »

capableweb wrote: post #157
qeternity wrote: post #138

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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 LegitScri…

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by spywaregorilla »

h_anna_h wrote: post #156
southerntofu wrote: post #119

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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 lo…

> nowadays it is much more likely that you will see such content while browsing facebook.

That sounds... unlikely? Unless you have a very specific set of friends?

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by meepmorp »

mikedilger wrote: post #25
mikedilger wrote: post #15

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I'm being downed for reporting on the information that I have about this? Fine. Downvote me a thousands times I will not hold my tongue. ADD: I pointed out the info was from Andy Ngo so that people could take that into account according to their own view of him. EDIT2: Ok, I got the order of events backwards.

This is my final comment. This account has been abandoned. Mike Dilger has lost faith in the Hacker News community. Mike Dilger would rather engage with retorts and argumentation than downvotes which just amount to an anonymous slap in the face, convey large amounts of emotion but zero information, and are frequently used punitively. BAD DESIGN. Goodbye. Since I can't delete my account I will scramble my password.

I downvoted you because of the hissy fit.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by wyldfire »

atlanta90210 wrote: post #187
Hackbraten wrote: post #171

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Neither is it Epyx, Inc., the venerable videogame company [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyx

Epyx published Jumpman on the Commodore 64. Loved that game.

I had thought that was by Epic (Megagames back then). I was wrong. Maybe I got Jumpman mixed up with Jill of the Jungle.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by was_a_dev »

schleck8 wrote: post #122
petecooper wrote: post #96

The linked .torrent file is ~30MB, and appears to be ~180GB of data with ~190,000 files. It's split into ~689,000 pieces of ~256KB, hence the comparatively large .torrent file overall.

I'm sure this will become a running gag, someone commenting epic/epik after large leaks

Now that was epik

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by toofy »

iammisc wrote: post #86
heyitsguay wrote: post #16

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Fortunately, given the purported scope of the hack, it seems we'll be able to actually quantify that. How many of the websites weren't hosting violent or extremist content? If this is real, we should be able to get an exact percentage.

Twitter hosts violent and extremist contents. Now please give me jack Dorseys address, phone number, and social security card so we can exact justice /s That there are people on this forum advocating for vigilantism is frightening. We are quickly approaching the point of lawlessness as a society.

well, we do have u.s. state governments putting vigilantism into law, and making sure the victims of this vigilantism pay the legal bills of the vigilantes, so at this point, i’m not sure we can clutch our pearls over something which after all these years has become routine (i.e., leaks)

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by fybs »

NavinF wrote: post #97
zavertnik wrote: post #8

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The torrent is on her website, a few people tweeted that they finally had seeders, but I'm unsure if they got the entire archive. I'm currently trying to download it now, but the torrent file is so large that it's crashing most torrent software (pico, deluge, webtorrent) I throw at it, on 2 machines!

How big is it? I had similar issues downloading danbooru2020 (3.4TB), but rtorrent did the job with only ~5G RSS. Every other client used 4x the memory and never completed the download.

it's 180 GB. transmission works fine.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by oefrha »

qeternity wrote: post #178
capableweb wrote: post #157

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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 LegitScri…

I agree with you about Epik’s stance, although I believe they’re doing it for the wrong reasons. Rob Monster for instance has expressed support for the KKK and claimed that the Christchurch shooting was a hoax. I’ll defend with my life his right to say abhorrent things. But that also means I get to express myself and call him a bad dude.

Sure, this dude sound like nuts from comments describing him here (I can’t even be bothered to look this shit up myself) and I’m glad I dodged a bullet. However, the private info of all their customers from their inception are allegedly exposed; and lots of people here seem to be cheering the hackers on.

Does this mean we need — actually, needed — to do research on the political standings of every founder, CEO, CXO of every service we use? And somehow predict they won’t do abhorrent things in the future even if they appeared harmless at the time? Otherwise we deserve it when we get doxxed for being a customer of a disgraced person?

I believe the answer is no, that’s unreasonable. These hackers are just criminals illegally doxxing a huge number of people. They don’t deserve cheers. I hope everyone of them gets arrested, which is highly unlikely.

(This is really not a direct response to your comment; not saying you were cheering them on.)

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by [deleted] »

tcmart14 wrote: post #145
jonathanstrange wrote: post #140

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I don't think anyone really supports unlimited freedom of speech other than as a strategic rhetorical lip service. It's a very unreasonable position. What people mean is that they draw the line at different places, usually while ignoring the law. People disagree about the definitions of crimes involving publication. For example, almost everyone is against the freedom to disseminate child porn under the excuse of "fre…

Yup. The same republicans proud of their party history saw no issue with dragging people in front of congress for interrogation because they might be a communist (thought crime). (House Un-American Activities Committee).

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