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Lulzsec/gn0sis/AnonOps dox'd
- retrogradeorbit 15y agoyou're, not your. edit: desides? How old is the author, I wonder? It all sounds very 'schoolyard'.
- xtal 15y ago> It all sounds very 'schoolyard'. Welcome to "hacking."
- shii 15y agoI think it's funny how someone who's been here for a month is welcoming someone who's been here for 1100+ days to "hacking". I agree though, it does sound quite schoolyard. The spelling and grammar mistakes don't help with the pathos of whoever 'A Team' is. I just posted this since I thought it was interesting how quickly Lulzsec has said bye bye after declaring war and more dumps every week with 'a big one' coming just this upcoming Monday. Saw this floating on /r/netsec so I thought to share it here.
- kbd 15y ago> I think it's funny how someone who's been here for a month is welcoming someone who's been here for 1100+ days to "hacking". Cause the age of your HN account = "hacker cred", right? How dare he talk back to an elder! Regardless, xtal's statement about hacker culture is accurate.
- mishmash 15y ago>I think it's funny how someone who's been here for a month is welcoming someone who's been here for 1100+ days to "hacking". Some day you'll discover alt accounts, and on that day you will feel like a god.
- shii 15y agoWho's to say this is my main account? ;) My original account on HN is over 1500 days old now. I left that and used another which is about 800 days old for awhile. Now I'm shii and a few other people for a little while longer.
- palish 15y agoWhy?
- shii 15y agoSticking to one persona, especially one tied to the IRL you becomes annoying and restrictive. Much more freeing to openly speak your mind and be able to say things without every thought and action being traced back to one identity.
- palish 15y agoI've felt the same way, at times. I know things which are both interesting and counter-intuitive about the game industry. But the information is inexorably tied with my identity, so I've concluded it's more prudent to have secrets and to allow the vocal uninformed to remain ignorant. In the end, it doesn't matter, and they probably wouldn't believe you anyway.
- Devilboy 15y agoAaron Barr is a notoriously bad speller.
- sliverstorm 15y agoI am currently imagining the icy thrill running down their spines if these guys fingered them properly...
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- Drakeman 15y agoThey aren't proof, but they might be enough (I am not a lawyer) for a search warrant for email addresses, person's homes, and phone/ISP records of the people named in the "d0x."
- sliverstorm 15y agoMost importantly, if a random group posting to pastebin can find them, the FBI has got to be able to, too.
- thadeus_venture 15y agoThat's a question I would really like to know the answer to. I'm not so sure that's the case.
- m0nastic 15y agoTo be fair, a random group posting to patebin isn't limited by things like "probable cause" "search warrants" and "lawful behavior". They admit in the document to "backhacking" the targets, which already puts them at an advantage against law enforcement. edit: s/probably/probable (it's late)
- trotsky 15y agoLEO can and does get warrants to do intrusions for identification purposes https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Computer_and_Internet_Protocol_Address_Verifier https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Computer_and_...
- callmeed 15y agoWhat is a busy box?
- retrogradeorbit 15y agohttp://busybox.net/ http://busybox.net/ Used in some consumer embedded gear running linux. or maybe not?
- Splines 15y agoIt's used in OpenWrt and probably most (if not all) of the FOSS router firmwares out there.
- rcfox 15y agoI'm just guessing, but I think it's probably an installation of http://www.busybox.net/ http://www.busybox.net/, which includes a standalone sshd. This would make it very easy to allow remote access once you're in a system.
- libber 15y agoA compromised box someone proxies attacks from. more mentions here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/24/lulzsec-irc-leak-the-full-record http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/24/lulzsec-irc...
- tripzilch 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busybox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busybox
- dustingetz 15y agoI read the whole thing, for some lulz search laurelai then incremental search fbi lol
- trotsky 15y agoHmm * mentions HBGary a lot * focuses on people who have been previously associated with the HBGary hack * shows special disdain for kayla and sabu & seems to be personally offended * likes to link people to their social networking profiles * only non-skiddie name mentioned is Barr's * obviously works (worked?) in infosec * previously in the military? (ALPHA MIKE FOXTROT = Adios Mother Fuckers) Gee, I wonder who the author might be...
- suking 15y agoJames Patterson
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- thadeus_venture 15y agoWonder if the spelling mistakes are strategically placed then. Or does Mr. Barr really spell that way. He's like a 40+ year old married guy.
- SwellJoe 15y agoHe's been pretending to be kids for years. He definitely fancies himself able to play the role (and I find him all the creepier because of it).
- saulrh 15y agoAccording to his quotes in [1], yeah, he really does spell and write that way, even in professional communication. It's kind of sad. [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-security-firm-tracked-anonymousand-paid-a-heavy-price.ars/3 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-secu...
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- dekz 15y ago> 20:25 <Laurelai> want me to be an informant on account im everywhere and iwas in the army No honour amongst thieves eh.
- shii 15y agoInterestingly, if you search through the reddit account for a user with the exact same name and capitalization, s/he appears in some threads as very vocal, defensive, and at times revealing about Lulzsec, topiary, sabu, and others. Check em out.
- cantbecool 15y agoGreat find, shii. Yeah, why would he be that dense to think that he would not be caught with this information easily visible after simple Google search. It is scary to think how much personal information someone could find out about ourselves if they figured out a handle that we use commonly.
- laurelaib 15y agoyes, im very vocal, and i have nothing to do with these groups, i have just written articles about them and other people, and its she thank you very much.
- notgregg 15y agoYou keep forgetting to mention your close personal relationship to Kayla. Or how you work for Wikileaks.
- zitterbewegung 15y agoI don't see how anyone can actually trust this leak though. How can we verify if this information is legitimate?
- Pentel 15y agoI wondered that until today when I read through their logs and Tweets and even studied their ASCII. I wondered why within 5 days they were stating they would be releasing troves of government documents to releasing what seemed to be someone’s trash can from their desktop with random stuff from 2009-present. They then went from the LULZ boat to a machine Gun and EFFING the police with Anarchy and reaching out to anyone to join. They were running out of low hanging fruit as the doc stated, this of course is my opinion =). From 5 days, "were releasing everything" and telling the president to wear a shoe on his head and they would quit. To, this is 50th day, have some junk, we're out!!
- nyellin 15y agoFor lack of a better explanation, is it crazy to consider the possibility lulzsec released this themselves? Hack innocents, preferably script kiddies from 4chan, install evidence on their systems, and walk away through the smoke.
- ricefield 15y agoThey're not that good.
- tathagatadg 15y agoTheir last tweet is 5 hours back ... wonder if there will be anymore lulz there ...
- shii 15y agoActually sabu is still tweeting and him and others are still active on their different irc channels.
- sabat 15y agoBoring. The problem with these tards is that they lack the discretion to find interesting problems to tackle. So: they pick on weaklings like Sony. Real grown-ups find good problems to solve and, well, solve them. A lot of those guys profit from them. I hope that the lolsec guys eventually realize that there's more to gain from helping the world than from hurting it.
- saulrh 15y agoThe fact that Sony is a weakling is a problem, and I suspect that LulzSec is doing their level best to solve that problem. If the world comes out minus some internet filters and plus stronger corporate internet security, they've helped.
- sabat 15y agoThe fact that Sony is a weakling is a problem It is a problem, sure. LulzSec is doing their level best to solve that problem No, they're just committing random acts of vandalism.
- saulrh 15y agoSure. Random acts of vandalism end up all over the news, affected companies' stock crashes because simple random vandalism is highly effective, companies improve security to avoid becoming a target and losing money. In other words, "doing their level best to solve that problem."
- burgerbrain 15y agoHas anyone checked out those PGP files? Don't really feel like doing it myself, considering the likely unsavory nature of the author of this document (barr...).
- jackolas 15y agoI love how whoever wrote this managed to use GPG/PGP wrong.
- burgerbrain 15y agoYeah, it seems to have been used as a makeshift uuencode... Also, I find the 'MingW32' version string to be somewhat interesting.
- Pentel 15y agohttp://www.gnupg.org/download/ http://www.gnupg.org/download/ <-- GPG
- Pentel 15y agoThe documents are apache server and related material to students the dox stated.
- shareme 15y agoWhat is more ironic? 1. The gross miss spelling in the post 2. That Mr Barr could not catch somewhat beginner hackers
- rorrr 15y ago> The gross miss spelling in the post "Misspelling" is the word you're looking for.
- dolvlo 15y agoThese guys sound pretty butthurt
- SeoxyS 15y agoI personally applaud the unmasking of the internet's anonymous. Maybe once they realize they're not truly anonymous, they'll stop with their appalling behavior. What they're doing exemplifies everything that is wrong with our sensationalist, power-hungry and generally corrupted culture. This kind of mob-trolling behavior is not ok, and prosecuting perpetrators to the full extend of the law ought to set a nice example. I'm all for free speech, and blowing the whistle. But this is much too far, and honestly, anarchy isn't any better than a police state.
- krashidov 15y agoI don't know if any of the identities are real. The Sabu guy's alleged name has been out for a while now, and after some googling it all goes back to some weird site: backtracesecurity.com Until we get some arrests I wouldn't be particularly excited over this.
- antihero 15y agoI did actually ask Lulzsec to hack my site. They never got back.
- cantbecool 15y agoThat was a horrible yet interesting read at the same time. The PGP keys deceived me into thinking there was more content then there really was. What does the author mean by bounce in the document, take over a machine and proxy themselves with it? I'm confused.
- pero 15y agoBouncing, interpreted strictly, refers to masking your IP on IRC by going through a different host which is running such software (bnc). It is widely used innocuously. I suppose it can also encompass alternative ways of hiding your IP by going through separate machines, but I think the author of the document would have said so explicitly considering he's used proper terminology elsewhere ("vpn", "proxy").
- cantbecool 15y agoThanks, pero, for the succinct and informative response. Do you have an email? I searched "eychqu" and found a web design firm based in Toronto. I'm assuming you run it?
- awm 15y agoI don't know about the validity of this, but that skull and cross bones was pretty fun.
- dhjskdh 15y agoThere are some odd problems with this document: 1) The timeline in the beginning is incorrect. #11 shows Laurelai was part of the HBGary attack. Yet in the #hq logs, Sabu had no idea who Laurelai was (and raged on him/her pretty hard). 2) Kayla is the only member that the A Team does not dox. However, the Laurelai/NA conversation contains a reference to the Xyrix = Kayla idea (which is referenced in many other places). Xyrix' denials are weak.
- laurelaib 15y agoYeah FYI sabu and topiary hate me, and im pretty sure Aaron Barr is behind this nonsense, oh and the logs of me are made up, i think ill sue Mr. Barr.
- jsprinkles 15y agoNever spoken to a lawyer I take it. Free legal advice: stop typing. An hour ago. "I think I'll sue" = I've never consulted legal counsel. If I were you I would be laying low instead of registering on every site discussing you and writing stuff like this. Specifically to HN we don't really care about intra-kiddie drama and if you are genuinely considering legal action you've already screwed your case in a lot of ways.
- Pentel 15y agoWhat Interests me is, who capped all the logs. In a room with four ops and 4 non ops, unless it was server admin?
- tlrobinson 15y agoReading the Laurelai/NA cap about the FBI raid made me wonder if anyone ever tries to reverse-bug the FBI by hiding bugs in HDDs and other equipment prone to seizure...
- Duff 15y agoIn the first 10 minutes of forensics class, they start stressing that you never work on original equipment -- always from copies. So a "bug" in a HDD would just hear all of the fascinating conversation that takes place in an evidence locker.
- leon_ 15y agoDidn't the kid have a spell checker or did he just want to sound l33t? Usually I'm not a grammar nazi (english isn't my first language so I understand the curse of engrish) but this is just annoying to read.
- laurelaib 15y agoyeah lets put random peoples names in a pastebin and claim they are 3 different groups all rolled into one. I just write articles, and sometimes people get upset by them. its probably Barr because i wrote those crowdleaks articles about him ,he also had his pet lawyer threaten me.
- Keyframe 15y agoHow is this (if we presume it's true) possible without deep infiltration? If that's the case, wouldn't the guy that exposed them be a perpetrator too?
- ZoFreX 15y agoI find it amusing that they call Lulzsec out for being childish, then think it's relevant to post the personal information of some dude's sister (and cry "LESBOZ!!!" because she's married to another girl). Reddit has rules against posting personal information. Does this website not? I really have little interest in websites that think it's ok to spread people's personal data. Weren't we mad at Sony and Lulzsec for allowing that sort of thing to happen?
- Jach 15y agoDo you mean PasteBin or HN? If you mean HN, this isn't spreading anything, it's linking to it. And if the community had a problem with linking to the contents, it would have been flagged to death already. I agree the childish aspect of it all is amusing, but it's not unexpected.
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- ZoFreX 15y agoI think everyone who upvotes this, or links to it, or spreads it, is a giant hypocrite.
- ulvund 15y agoDrama
- 16s 15y agoSo how do they identify people who have no facebook account or facebook friends? That seemed to be the main focus of identifying people.
- bromagosa 15y agoThey seem to be pretty good at computers, I don't see why they can't learn how to spell.
- arianvp 15y agoI think I heard the name Sven Slootweg recently. I have a feeling one of my friends knows him in person O_o