Throwaway for obvious reasons. Around 13 years ago when I was a lot younger we were in fight with other site community, none of it was for profit. We got hit by DDOS so we wanted to retaliate. We've scanned their DDOS boxes and found out the software that was running on them and vulnerability that they were using, then we hacked that box, got their tools because all was transferred without any encryption (different times). We wrote our own C&C software and started gathering our own botnet. Most of the bots were coming from datacenters so they had high bandwidth pipe. That community we were fighting with moved to offshore hosting in Malaysia. I've used our whole botnet and started DDOSing, oh man, I didn't know what kind of power we had. Whole country (Malaysia) was cut off the rest of the world for hours. Fun times, some teenager from some place in the world can cut off whole country from internet by executing one command.
‘Spiderman’ Hacker Daniel Kaye Took Down Liberia’s Internet
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#22>An Israeli/American-owned telecommunications company tries to oust the dominant Liberian-owned company in Liberia, using unsavory tactics meant to shame and humiliate the latter and its users, eventually hoping to sell out to a French telecommunications giant. Oh, and then they just straight-up hack/DDOS them. I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion.
>I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion.
I am curious if you are aware of the context of colonialism with respect to Liberia.
Oddly, many aren't aware, but Liberia was founded as a colony by the American Colonization Society in an attempt to return freed slaves back to Africa.
Although the number of US slaves that colonized Liberia was pretty limited in number (and a minority compared to the number of natives) they took power, and the Country has essentially existed in a state of civil war between the freed slaves (colonists) as minority rulers and the natives who did not view the freed US slaves as Africans.
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#23>An Israeli/American-owned telecommunications company tries to oust the dominant Liberian-owned company in Liberia, using unsavory tactics meant to shame and humiliate the latter and its users, eventually hoping to sell out to a French telecommunications giant. Oh, and then they just straight-up hack/DDOS them. I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion.
I'll see your "neo-colonialism" and up you one "techno-colonialism".
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#24>An Israeli/American-owned telecommunications company tries to oust the dominant Liberian-owned company in Liberia, using unsavory tactics meant to shame and humiliate the latter and its users, eventually hoping to sell out to a French telecommunications giant. Oh, and then they just straight-up hack/DDOS them. I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion.
>I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion. I am curious if you are aware of the context of colonialism with respect to Liberia. Oddly, many aren't aware, but Liberia was founded as a colony by the American Colonization Society in an attempt to return freed slaves back to Africa. Although the number of US slaves that colonized Liberia was pretty limited in number (and a minority compared to t…
The Vice documentary on the cannibal warlords of Liberia is quite shocking. The slaves that were expatriated from America to Liberia promptly enslaved the local population with a nearly identical system to the one they had been taught to live under as slaves.
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#25Those of you who worked at Facebook/Google, wouldn't he make more money by simply being L5-L8 at one of those firms?
> Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy.
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#26Note that this has nothing to do with the hack of the Spiderman movie documents circa 2015.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion. I am curious if you are aware of the context of colonialism with respect to Liberia. Oddly, many aren't aware, but Liberia was founded as a colony by the American Colonization Society in an attempt to return freed slaves back to Africa. Although the number of US slaves that colonized Liberia was pretty limited in number (and a minority compared to t…
The Vice documentary on the cannibal warlords of Liberia is quite shocking. The slaves that were expatriated from America to Liberia promptly enslaved the local population with a nearly identical system to the one they had been taught to live under as slaves.
If you are interest in the subject I recommend reading "The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia: From 'Paternaltarianism' to State Collapse"
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#28>An Israeli/American-owned telecommunications company tries to oust the dominant Liberian-owned company in Liberia, using unsavory tactics meant to shame and humiliate the latter and its users, eventually hoping to sell out to a French telecommunications giant. Oh, and then they just straight-up hack/DDOS them. I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion.
>I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion. I am curious if you are aware of the context of colonialism with respect to Liberia. Oddly, many aren't aware, but Liberia was founded as a colony by the American Colonization Society in an attempt to return freed slaves back to Africa. Although the number of US slaves that colonized Liberia was pretty limited in number (and a minority compared to t…
I am. As another user mentioned, Liberia was essentially colonized by a Western power. It's a shocking example of the virulence of the culture of exploitation that pervaded the Americas at the time.
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#29>An Israeli/American-owned telecommunications company tries to oust the dominant Liberian-owned company in Liberia, using unsavory tactics meant to shame and humiliate the latter and its users, eventually hoping to sell out to a French telecommunications giant. Oh, and then they just straight-up hack/DDOS them. I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion.
An excellent example of the necessity of protectionism.
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#30An interesting aspect is how broken the Internet is (those dodgy routers and IP webcams, what other IoT devices can be exploited?), and how critical it actually is, if you can cripple a whole country's economy.