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

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Post by shard972 »

anigbrowl wrote: post #61
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 this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT times were actually the Syrian government The thing is, nobody thinks the SEA is part of the Syrian government, any more than the Irish Republican Army was part of the Irish government. It's just a name the group have adopted to show their affiliation and ma…

> Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong.

Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong.

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

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Post by mackal »

ryalfalpha wrote: post #82
anigbrowl wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT times were actually the Syrian government The thing is, nobody thinks the SEA is part of the Syrian government, any more than the Irish Republican Army was part of the Irish government. It's just a name the group have adopted to show their affiliation and ma…

I don't get your comment?... prominent members from various versions of the IRA are and have been members of Irish governments, see Gerry Adams/Martin McGuinness (Or even Michael Collins if you're talking way back).

Just because an organization has members/affiliates in a government does not make that organization part of the government.

Its like saying what ever the presidents frat was, is part of the government.

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

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Post by traviscline »

wavesounds wrote: post #88
pseudometa wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dusting off my tin foil hat, I would go with Israel in collusion with the NSA/CIA. They have the most to gain by turning the media against Syria and the technical capabilities as proven with their involvement in stuxnet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

You think that Israel wants a war with Syria? Syria could easily turn those chemical weapons across its border. I think Isreal is probably one of the big factors causing US restraint right now. But my tin-foil hat hasn't been working very well lately so the government radio signals may be blocking me from seeing something.

Do you not recall those recent strikes?

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

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Post by ilyanep »

shard972 wrote: post #91
anigbrowl wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me? Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong. If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT times were actually the Syrian government The thing is, nobody thinks the SEA is part of the Syrian government, any more than the Irish Republican Army was part of the Irish government. It's just a name the group have adopted to show their affiliation and ma…

> Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong. Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong.

> Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong.

And yet another possibility is that your opinion is wrong!

I like this "adding nothing to the discussion" game!

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

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Post by fudyy »

wavesounds wrote: post #88
pseudometa wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dusting off my tin foil hat, I would go with Israel in collusion with the NSA/CIA. They have the most to gain by turning the media against Syria and the technical capabilities as proven with their involvement in stuxnet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

You think that Israel wants a war with Syria? Syria could easily turn those chemical weapons across its border. I think Isreal is probably one of the big factors causing US restraint right now. But my tin-foil hat hasn't been working very well lately so the government radio signals may be blocking me from seeing something.

> I think Israel is probably one of the big factors causing US restraint right now.

The other way around. Israel wants more U.S. involvement. And did you notice that Israel recently bombed Lebanon in retaliation? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23806767

Things are enough of a powder-key economically this sort of thing to get out-of-hand in a big way.

China and America are co-dependent but at cyber-cold-war. Russia just recently gave the middle-finger to the U.S. with Snowden and we refused to meet with each other. The two primary powers that emerged after the last world war are no longer at the top so there is an open gap for who's next: the U.S. who no one wanted to mess with is overstretched, underfunded, and there is no better president to have at the helm if you want a war with the U.S. than one who has not achieved much militarily other than social reform and withdrawal, is on the edge of economic shambles due to decades of overspending much more than the stock market and media would lead you to believe, and whose party's voting constituents aren't in favor of a war, and Russia, who turned into a mafia-run state with former KGB at the helm that are unable to elicit much nationalism- much less a military power it used to be, doing the equivalent of selling its military assets on ebay for years.

Mass executions from chemical attack or otherwise are not the reason we are getting involved. This is a power struggle. Some big players (Clinton comes to mind) in U.S. Democratic party are set on cleaning up the Iran/Syria/Lebanon area, and Republicans are always up for a war. But, I'm afraid they will get more than they bargained for.

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

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Post by 16s »

icpmacdo wrote: post #32
unreal37 wrote: post #2

Whoa. Twitter, NYTimes, HuffPo... all had their DNS records hacked? This seems huge.

How difficult of a thing is this to pull off?

You'd have to have the ability to change DNS records for their domains. If you can point "whatever.com" to a NS that you control, it's game over until they take it back.

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

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Post by smackfu »

jval wrote: post #26

Ok, firstly whois Microsoft.com just returns all URLs with Microsoft.com in them, even as a subdomain, so they haven't been hacked and that result has been there for ages. Same goes for Verisign etc. TechCrunch is reporting that registrar MelbourneIT has been hacked.. This wouldn't surprise me but I'm puzzled as to why either site would register with such a bad registrar.

>but I'm puzzled as to why either site would register with such a bad registrar.

Melbourne IT acquired part of Verisign a few years ago, their Enterprise "Digital Brand Management Services". I assume these big companies are either existing customers, or just new customers using that particular part of the service.

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

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Post by mjolk »

15charusername wrote: post #73
dobbsbob wrote: post #15

US is about to bomb Syrian military assets so this is Iran's response. The SEA is clearly Iranian. Email them something in Farsi or PM one of their propaganda accounts on youtube they usually answer. last time I checked ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com was hosted out of Russia and includes " qatar-leaks.com" which seems to have disappeared

Why Iran? Surely Russia is a bigger suspect, but right now, my biggest suspect would be the NSA/CIA, the timing of the Syrian escalation is just too perfect.

Why do you suspect this is sanctioned by Russia? What would they have to gain from pestering a couple media companies, especially at the risk of losing their business? What is your logic here?
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