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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by ryantgtg »

ohashi wrote: post #115
desine wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you truly believe in freedom of speech, it makes sense to support companies who enable those ideals. I'm not familiar enough with the company/drama/story here, but if Epik does not do anything "problematic" other than allow "problematic" speech, then I would consider them. A certain quote often mis-attributed to Voltaire comes to mind [0]. It appears they do have some lines drawn in the sand for free speech, they…

I wouldn't support this borderline nutjob. Making employees watching a video of christchurch shooting and saying it was fake? Yeah, no. He has a lot of ties to extremist right wing too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Monster#Views

This message to epik customers about this "alleged security incident" ends with:

> You are in our prayers today. We are grateful for your support and prayer. When situations arise where individuals might not have honorable intentions, I pray for them. I believe that what the enemy intends for evil, God invariably transforms into good. Blessings to you all.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by coredog64 »

oefrha wrote: post #199
qeternity wrote: post #178

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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 o…

GoDaddy is actively shitty with a cancerous internal culture, but I guess that’s okay as long as they don’t host Nazis.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by crocodiletears »

chroem- wrote: post #167
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #159

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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.

What's the difference between an anti-fascist and a fascist if they use the same tactics? Two weeks ago "anti-fascists" opened fire into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in my state's capitol.

I missed this. What happened?

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by Thorrez »

FDSGSG wrote: post #135
LewisVerstappen wrote: post #89

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Nor is it Epic! the digital reading platform for kids[1], not EPIC the Electronic Privacy Information Center[2], or EPIC Provisions the company behind high protein meat snacks[3]. [1] https://www.getepic.com/ [2] https://epic.org/ [3] https://epicprovisions.com/

>[2] https://epic.org/ https://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/prg-scorecard/basis.ph... Only two left to go?

Wow, do you try to SQL inject every site linked from HN comments?

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by chroem- »

crocodiletears wrote: post #253
chroem- wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the difference between an anti-fascist and a fascist if they use the same tactics? Two weeks ago "anti-fascists" opened fire into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in my state's capitol.

I missed this. What happened?

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/man-shot-in-...

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by genr8 »

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…

I can't believe [What do they have to hide?] was even seriously spoken here. Im not the only one who believes this glows exactly like a state-sanctioned hitjob. This was cyber-warfare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5a42XuzPLk An average fair video on the hack - but Read the comments.

Anonymous is not bashing the fash, they now do the bidding of the far-left Establishment, enforce state-approved Censorship and Cancel Culture of any dissidents against the monoculture cathedral regime - who now just are your average regular independents, libertarians, and freedom loving populists.

Anyone who still falls for "but they're nazis and fascism is bad mmk" is either dishonest or not following this subject matter. Just because you don't like someone doesnt mean they're nazis.

I doubt this is even Anonymous. The real Anonymous would not be hacking companies providing free speech (no matter how bad the security).

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by dragonwriter »

genr8 wrote: post #256
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…

I can't believe [What do they have to hide?] was even seriously spoken here. Im not the only one who believes this glows exactly like a state-sanctioned hitjob. This was cyber-warfare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5a42XuzPLk An average fair video on the hack - but Read the comments. Anonymous is not bashing the fash, they now do the bidding of the far-left Establishment, enforce state-approved Censorship and Canc…

> far-left Establishment

There is an Establishment.

And there's a far-left.

There is no “far-left Establishment”.

> I doubt this is even Anonymous.

Anonymous isn't, like, a group with defined membership.

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Post by h_anna_h »

spywaregorilla wrote: post #192
h_anna_h wrote: post #156

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> 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?

I don't have a facebook account so no.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by chias »

stickfigure wrote: post #56
chias wrote: post #53

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Google Domains incorrectly banned me. I filed an appeal showing how I was indeed authorized to perform the actions I had performed, that I was not in violation of their Terms of Use, and included the contact information of the various parties that Google could contact in order to confirm my claims. None of these individuals were contacted and my appeal was rejected with their standard "unfortunately kindly go fuck yo…

Please write this up with more detail, it deserves a HN front page story. That is horrifying.

It's really not as exciting as all that. As a regular user, I suspect you're unlikely to have an experience like mine.

As part of my job, I perform (authorized) phishing simulations for employees of my employer. Typically this involves registering domains that look like my employer's domain (with permission), or domains that look like those of our vendors (again, with permission). I suspect one too many people clicked Gmail's "report phishing" button and their automated system took it from there. So I wasn't at all surprised that the account eventually got suspended, but I was surprised that my appeal was rejected, and closed with zero investigation. Perhaps I shouldn't have been.

Thankfully the only domains I lost were domains used for that purpose. At the time, I did use Google Domains for my personal domains as well, but thankfully I had those associated with my personal Gmail address and not my work account so I could still control them. Needless to say, though, I moved them off onto another registrar immediately.

The experience has also led me to slowly move off of Google products as a whole, with the notable current exceptions of Android and Google Fi.

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* before the inevitable "phishing is a violation of their terms of service", it actually isn't. The related section forbids use that violates any laws or regulations, and lists phishing as an example. Authorized phishing simulations do not violate any laws or regulations. Unfortunately, Google failed to follow up with any of the individuals or evidence showing that it was authorized, and just rejected the appeal.

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