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There is a .swp file in the torrent: > strings .whois.sql.swp b0nano 5.4 anonymous datahound whois.sql I tested on my machine and nano swap files contain

There is a .swp file in the torrent: > strings .whois.sql.swp b0nano 5.4 anonymous datahound whois.sql I tested on my machine and nano swap files contain the nano version (5.4), the username (anonymous), the hostname (datahound) and the filename (whois.sql).

southerntofu 5y ago
Nice catch! I downvoted though, because helping to deanonymize antifascist hackers is against my ethics.
- rijoja 5y ago
  The ethical thing to do when you find a security breach is to report it to them. If you support people who are willing to commit crime to get into power then I really hope that you take some time to think about your political convictions.
  - createunderrate 5y ago
    Quietly reporting a security breach to the company you breached will not make other companies think twice about mishandling the data of their users.
  - southerntofu 5y ago
    > The ethical thing to do when you find a security breach is to report it to them. Do you hold secret services and private hacking companies (Hacking Team, Cellebrite..) to the same standards? If not, why are you complaining about this instance of small-scale hacking for the lulz, and not about the actual insecurity industry who derives power/authority and money from hacking? > If you support people who are willing to commit crime to get into power I certainly don't. I despise power in all forms, unless you're talking power as in "empowerment" or "power to the people". I will however, defend and help anyone committing crimes to abolish power and injustice, because "justice" is not something that can be measured or achieved with the oppressors's tools, namely laws and repression. If you don't support people who break unjust laws and help make those abusing power accountable, I really hope that you take some time to think about your political convictions, and what you would have thought of the Resistance movement against nazi occupation during WWII.
- nextlevelwizard 5y ago
  So you are saying that this Epik company was run by fascists?
  - southerntofu 5y ago
    I'm saying they are very confident and happy to host actual fascists and other stripes of neo-nazis and white supremacists. I have no clue about their own personal opinions, although some people further down this thread suggested they had such affiliations. Providing material support to people is never neutral. I'm happy some sysadmins and community managers are taking a stand against abuse and harassment. On the other hand i'm also concerned State-mandated censorship is detrimental to human rights and will in fact be used more (as it already is) against anarchists, queers and other minorities and not against actual fascists because our governments are much closer to the historical definitions of "fascism" than they'd like to admit. So i'm clearly against censorship, but i agree with XKCD that kicking assholes out of our communities is not a "free speech" issue: https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/ I can't say i'm very comfortable with these "free speech" hosts who would certainly turn away any opinions they disagree with. I much prefer radical servers like riseup/autistici who have clear policies on where they stand politically and what kind of activities they're ready to fight for and what kind of activities they'll fight off. Contrary to Protonmail and their millions of dollars, Riseup is a self-organized non-profit (born of the altermondialist/internationalist movement) who had servers seized rather than rat on their users [0]... unless some people/activities directly contradict their ethical principles in which case they reserve the right to collaborate with law enforcement [1] instead of risking the infrastructure needed by all their users (as in a seppuku pledge, like Lavabit did). [0] https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/fbi-seizes-anonymous-remailer https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/fbi-seizes-anonymous-re... [1] https://riseup.net/en/about-us/policy/government-faq#what-about-child-porn-drugs-corruption-etc-would-you-fight-law-enforcement-requests-for-users-doing-these-things https://riseup.net/en/about-us/policy/government-faq#what-ab...
    - nextlevelwizard 5y ago
      Expect this hack wasn't "showing the door to the assholes in your community" this was hacking and trying to doxx another community you don't agree with. They had already left your community and made their own, but as was expected that wasn't enough and never was the actual point of that XKCD. The actual message behind the stance is that speech you hate should be removed. As with most things people are for removing speech as long as it is speech of people they disagree with. We just have to hope the pendulum never again swings back to the other side.

southerntofu 5y ago

Nice catch! I downvoted though, because helping to deanonymize antifascist hackers is against my ethics.

rijoja 5y ago
The ethical thing to do when you find a security breach is to report it to them. If you support people who are willing to commit crime to get into power then I really hope that you take some time to think about your political convictions.
- createunderrate 5y ago
  Quietly reporting a security breach to the company you breached will not make other companies think twice about mishandling the data of their users.
- southerntofu 5y ago
  > The ethical thing to do when you find a security breach is to report it to them. Do you hold secret services and private hacking companies (Hacking Team, Cellebrite..) to the same standards? If not, why are you complaining about this instance of small-scale hacking for the lulz, and not about the actual insecurity industry who derives power/authority and money from hacking? > If you support people who are willing to commit crime to get into power I certainly don't. I despise power in all forms, unless you're talking power as in "empowerment" or "power to the people". I will however, defend and help anyone committing crimes to abolish power and injustice, because "justice" is not something that can be measured or achieved with the oppressors's tools, namely laws and repression. If you don't support people who break unjust laws and help make those abusing power accountable, I really hope that you take some time to think about your political convictions, and what you would have thought of the Resistance movement against nazi occupation during WWII.
nextlevelwizard 5y ago
So you are saying that this Epik company was run by fascists?
- southerntofu 5y ago
  I'm saying they are very confident and happy to host actual fascists and other stripes of neo-nazis and white supremacists. I have no clue about their own personal opinions, although some people further down this thread suggested they had such affiliations. Providing material support to people is never neutral. I'm happy some sysadmins and community managers are taking a stand against abuse and harassment. On the other hand i'm also concerned State-mandated censorship is detrimental to human rights and will in fact be used more (as it already is) against anarchists, queers and other minorities and not against actual fascists because our governments are much closer to the historical definitions of "fascism" than they'd like to admit. So i'm clearly against censorship, but i agree with XKCD that kicking assholes out of our communities is not a "free speech" issue: https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/ I can't say i'm very comfortable with these "free speech" hosts who would certainly turn away any opinions they disagree with. I much prefer radical servers like riseup/autistici who have clear policies on where they stand politically and what kind of activities they're ready to fight for and what kind of activities they'll fight off. Contrary to Protonmail and their millions of dollars, Riseup is a self-organized non-profit (born of the altermondialist/internationalist movement) who had servers seized rather than rat on their users [0]... unless some people/activities directly contradict their ethical principles in which case they reserve the right to collaborate with law enforcement [1] instead of risking the infrastructure needed by all their users (as in a seppuku pledge, like Lavabit did). [0] https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/fbi-seizes-anonymous-remailer https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/fbi-seizes-anonymous-re... [1] https://riseup.net/en/about-us/policy/government-faq#what-about-child-porn-drugs-corruption-etc-would-you-fight-law-enforcement-requests-for-users-doing-these-things https://riseup.net/en/about-us/policy/government-faq#what-ab...
  - nextlevelwizard 5y ago
    Expect this hack wasn't "showing the door to the assholes in your community" this was hacking and trying to doxx another community you don't agree with. They had already left your community and made their own, but as was expected that wasn't enough and never was the actual point of that XKCD. The actual message behind the stance is that speech you hate should be removed. As with most things people are for removing speech as long as it is speech of people they disagree with. We just have to hope the pendulum never again swings back to the other side.