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Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by eshvk »

cpursley wrote: post #44

"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists" Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all. This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT ti…

> Their regime is about to get bombed. Taking down twitter is low on their priority list. But it's quite good timing for a propaganda campaign against "hackers" and now allows the US government to label hackers as terrorists. Scary stuff.

Yes, because the bombing of the regime means that every single person supporting the Syrians is automatically going to focus all their efforts on one single task. It is not like there can be people with different perspectives on how to solve a "problem" with the same common goal. /s

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by krelian »

jnbiche wrote: post #50
krelian wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think they are so sophisticated to create this false flag operation why are the targets and magnitude of this so lame?

NYTimes and Twitter are lame targets? In the US, at least, you don't get a much higher profile non-government target than the NY Times. I mean, if this were a false flag operation -- and I'm not convinced it is -- then the three-letter guys wouldn't very likely chose to target themselves, or other government, would they? They would portray them as being inept at defending themselves.

The target was one registrar and the disruption wasn't anything that's going to be talked bout tomorrow morning. Fairly lame for a sophisticated false flag operation.

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by rtpg »

cpursley wrote: post #44

"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists" Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all. This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT ti…

Have we heard any government officials calling for any drastic attack on your civil liberties yet?

If you think people can't make the difference between the SEA and people who browse reddit and privacy activists, then you're setting the bar pretty low for the intelligence of the population. Especially considering people are getting more and more informed

Your need for a conspiracy seems pretty great

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

eshvk wrote: post #51
cpursley wrote: post #44

"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists" Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all. This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT ti…

> Their regime is about to get bombed. Taking down twitter is low on their priority list. But it's quite good timing for a propaganda campaign against "hackers" and now allows the US government to label hackers as terrorists. Scary stuff. Yes, because the bombing of the regime means that every single person supporting the Syrians is automatically going to focus all their efforts on one single task. It is not like the…

This is especially true when you look at how fractured and ill-defined "person supporting the Syrians" is.

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by mpchlets »

So not sure what to say, but this is the email I received from DynEct the other day: subject: Webinar Wednesday: Are You Prepared For DNS Disaster? sender: Dyn hello@dyn.com via dynect-mailer.net

and some info from my old whois: $ whois twitter.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.

   Server Name: TWITTER.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM
   IP Address: 209.126.190.71
   Registrar: PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
   Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
   Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com

   Domain Name: TWITTER.COM
   Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
   Whois Server: whois.melbourneit.com
   Referral URL: http://www.melbourneit.com
   Name Server: NS1.P34.DYNECT.NET
   Name Server: NS2.P34.DYNECT.NET
   Name Server: NS3.P34.DYNECT.NET
   Name Server: NS4.P34.DYNECT.NET

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by eli »

krelian wrote: post #49
cpursley wrote: post #44

"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists" Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all. This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT ti…

If you think they are so sophisticated to create this false flag operation why are the targets and magnitude of this so lame?

See this is why it's a great conspiracy theory. Parts of the attack that are well executed are used as proof that the powerful US Gov't is behind it. Parts that are poorly executed are obviously put there on purpose and thus also proof that the powerful US Gov't is behind it.

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by eli »

cheald wrote: post #39
icpmacdo wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How difficult of a thing is this to pull off?

If you can compromise a shared registrar, pretty trivial.

Well, the "attacking multiple sites at once" is trivial. The "compromising a major registry" is at least supposed to be kinda hard.

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by Mongoose »

cpursley wrote: post #44

"We are protecting you from the hacker-terrorists" Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? People, think about what is happening here and the timing of it all. This is a false flag operation to turn the public opinion against "hackers" so these crazy internet regulations bills can start passing and so that they can get away with spying scandal. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT ti…

Is the redirect loop affecting your personal website the government's fault too?

Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by emil10001 »

bluetidepro wrote: post #5

As someone asked in the comments of the article asked (no response yet), I'm curious myself... > " twimg.com is a domain used by Twitter which is an widget company that is part of a network of sites, cookies, and other technologies used to track you, what you do and what you click on, as you go from site to site, surfing the Web. Does that not mean that SEA will be intercepting this data? "

Couldn't they do this with any of the sites that they modify? That's what I am sort of wondering about, sure you could redirect the homepage to something dumb, and make it really obvious that the site has been attacked. But, it seems like they could have similarly done a man-in-the-middle and sucked up tons of data silently, without throwing up any big red flags.
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