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Home Front: Culture Wars
Leftist Groups Hack Sites; Provide Private Info on RNC Reps
2004-08-23
IndyMedia has taken down the site which included a link to the list of 1600 RNC delagates, but some intredid engineer mailed me the page so it is here

I did manage to download the list before it was taken down.
Posted by:badanov

#17  Jeez, Ed, is that a Mastiff?
Posted by: mojo   2004-08-23 5:25:09 PM  

#16  for ex-lib...

Posted by: .com   2004-08-23 1:18:02 PM  

#15  These beauzeaux need to realize that some things are illegal. Or is anything done in the service of tyranny justified in their eyes?
Posted by: Steve from Relto   2004-08-23 1:16:25 PM  

#14  ex-Lib, you forgot Mastiffs. If your his friend, all is cool, if not, then you got up to 200 lbs of DAWG with an ATTITUDE. . .

Posted by: BigEd   2004-08-23 12:58:43 PM  

#13  "Archery is an excellent skill, wish I had it."

I personally favor a well-trained and hungry 12-pack of Rotweillers, German Shepherds, Pit Bulls, or even Dalmatians, but that's just me . . . : ) !
Posted by: ex-lib   2004-08-23 10:02:14 AM  

#12  #8 "I've decided to add a Horton Hunter Max 175# titanium alloy crossbow to my little collection."

Should you decide to use this on a perp, you need to make damn sure that Open Hunting Season has been declared and that hostilities are in full swing. The legal/Court system and juries go absolutely bug-nuts in cases involving bows & crossbows.

Don't know why...dead is dead, but they freak when you whack someone with a bow of any type.

#9 "Archery is an excellent skill, wish I had it."

Archery can be a very rewarding past time. It isn't even all that expensive to get started. It does take a great deal of commitment in the early stages. Practise, practise, practise! Did I mention practise?

CiT
Posted by: CiT   2004-08-23 9:50:57 AM  

#11  I just went to nycindymedia and it runs like it's on dial up in someones basement. (it could be getting DDOSed too) It will be interesting to see how the ramifications of this play out. It could very well mean the indymedia sites that posted or allowed to be posted that info are shut down by the actual people who own the IP. I doubt very much if they are all self hosted and it they are their upstream providers will be quickly persuaded that keeping them as customers is more legal and $$$ problems that it's worth. I am also sure that the MSM and MSM computer press will try and bury the story under a rock. Kerry's wifes tides foundation give indymedia money from what I read. Go figure.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-08-23 5:16:34 AM  

#10  Hmmm, could have been a PHP exploit another service. If it really was hacked and not an inside job. If you are co-located or hosted an "employee" could own you anytime you would never know it. If it was a Linux box it's got a root kit installed now for sure. I had a site owned by some kiddies and they used a known exploit in PHPBB to deface my front page.

I am moving slowly to FreeBSD 4.9, now running a home server, trying to put together a couple of DNS servers and a mail/ftp server. I love it. The firewall support is just awesome and as easy as John Kerry fondling wimminses at a rich widowers convention to enable and run. I find though I still need Linux, which I use as a database server, and a backup server, and my trusty rusty Win98 box for rapid editing jobs, accessing the BSD machine via Samba behind a private network.
Posted by: badanov   2004-08-23 2:39:34 AM  

#9  Improvised and unregulated devices of all kinds will have a significant role to play in the coming conflict.
Archery is an excellent skill, wish I had it.
The traditional sling is an even less traceable weapon and quite lethal with enough practice.
The well known ingredients of ANFO may become unavailable, depending on just how much power the eco-wacky left alliance can gain, but there are alternatives.
Spectacular actions to make a point will be useless, since the enemy will control the media (already does in fact) and the media cannot be manipulated against their will. The media will obviously choose not to cooperate in publicizing the "message"(in direct contrast to their treatment of islamonazi terrorism, interstingly enough).
The enemy does have an infrastructure and this should be studied with a view toward identifying crucial nodes and other points of vulnerability.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-08-23 2:17:57 AM  

#8  I've decided to add a Horton Hunter Max 175# titanium alloy crossbow to my little collection. Silent is good. 4 x 32 scope and 345 fps. Good for the intermediate ranges, methinks. I like my odd-ish little armory.
Posted by: .com   2004-08-23 2:02:18 AM  

#7  Indy-borg will have a response, stay tuned.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-08-23 1:48:57 AM  

#6  These little authoritarians could not be more obvious in their contempt for free speech and participatory democracy. A leftist is a thief, seeking to take not just your property but your freedom and, ultimately, your will and your identity. They have now reached the point where they openly demand censorship on the grounds that the targeted dissidents are "fascists", and they do this without the slightest hint of irony.

Does anyone remember any Republican activists making similar threats about the DNC convention?

Why should these devils, these arrogant murder-apologists, be allowed the protection of the law when they will not allow such protection for others?
Civil war is coming, be ready.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-08-23 1:46:19 AM  

#5  Hmmm, could have been a PHP exploit another service. If it really was hacked and not an inside job. If you are co-located or hosted an "employee" could own you anytime you would never know it. If it was a Linux box it's got a root kit installed now for sure. I had a site owned by some kiddies and they used a known exploit in PHPBB to deface my front page. I had the my Host wipe my partition. I think it was hacked from inside. That host runs BSD. I have ssh access with a shell and the kind of passwording I use is not easily cracked. But it just flat sucks.

Expect more of this as we move toward the election. I am expecting more attacks from the "inside" from hosting service employees and ISP employees as we move towards November. The LLL see the internet as their property and has no problems trying to control content and thought on it. They refer to silencing those they disagree with as "moderation." I consider it the first shots in a comming civil war. I am not encouraged, I am however well armed. Seeing how most of them are totally ignorant of anything martial they will lose but it wont be pretty.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-08-23 1:41:33 AM  

#4  However some people insist on using MicroSoft proudcts instead of hiring people with Unix/Linux skills and setting up proper secure servers.

Netcraft sez they were running Apache/Linux. from what I have heard hackers used a php expoit of some sort maybe? I dunno. But it is clear MS or open source, it doesn't matter if you can't lock it down which product you use.
Posted by: badanov   2004-08-23 1:17:23 AM  

#3  I tried to post one of those links earlier, Em, but nothing happened.
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2004-08-23 1:05:23 AM  

#2  Some anarchist script kiddies compromised the Protest Warrior mailing lists today. I (and most everyone who has signed up with PW) received a long email on Sunday thru the PW servers announcing the End Of The World As We Know It.

Long screed on RNC raping NY and cyber-saber rattling:

Right-wing extremists are modern-day brown shirts who abuse and harass activists who are fighting for social justice while claiming to be in the moral right. By infiltrating and crashing legal, peaceful assemblies, the ProtestWarriors are fighting against the democratic process while claiming to uphold the 'core values of this country'. It is unpatriotic to blindly accept and obey the dogma of the ruling classes, and to lash out at peace activists who are trying to build a better world is intolerable. We're shutting you down.

They posted the list of PW-subscribed emails (including mine) on Indymedia NYC and made threats against LGF, InstaPundit, and the rest of the usual suspects. Let's hope Ratburg flies under the radar or Fred will have to batten down the server hatches (again).

More info at LGF:

Protest Warrior Cracked.
Threats.
Indymedia article.

Lots of good commentary in LGF comments.
Posted by: Seafarious   2004-08-23 1:01:21 AM  

#1  Just freeking wonderful. I imagine that it would not be to hard to track down who had access to this list and find the nerdy little anarco-liberal that got it through course of their employment. This is what is known as an employment limiting move. I am pretty sure it's also criminal to disseminate it even under the color of jonuralism. I doubt if very much that it was obtained from a hacked site. However some people insist on using MicroSoft proudcts instead of hiring people with Unix/Linux skills and setting up proper secure servers.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-08-23 12:44:57 AM  

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