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Any validity besides one news article? seems to be getting the hug of death atm.

by Rallen89 1y ago

BoredPositron 1y ago
Just download the data and validate it yourself if you are skeptical? I guess that's why they released it...
- owebmaster 1y ago
  That's a fast way to get hacked or become a target. We can do better in this forum security-wise
  - BoredPositron 1y ago
    We are on a forum were most users should know how to operate data that has the probability of malware in it...
    - owebmaster 1y ago
      Just now you commented (and removed) that it's improbable that a file this big would be a honeypot, I don't think most users here know how to operate data safely.
      - BoredPositron 1y ago
        I deleted it because the discussion is void. The data is on torrent trackers and on shared file hosters. You can download single files in the torrent and if you can't handle a txt file without getting an anxiety attack that's on you.
        owebmaster 1y ago
        I'm not interested in the content but you are, share your findings in place of asking ppl to do that. Why there are so many profiles (many of them green) hurrying people to stop thinking about risks and just open the files? Shouldn't they just open it and see? Edit as I can't reply: your behavior is quite suspicious and so is some of the new green users commenting. That is exactly what someone embedded in the hacker culture would conclude after analyzing, not feel challenged by you to hurry and open the files.
        BoredPositron 1y ago
        Of course, I am interested in major data leaks, as most people on this forum should be, since it's an integral part of the culture of the word before news in the url. After examining approximately 20 files, my initial impression is that it appears to be scraped OSINT data. However, I won't make definitive claims based on such a limited sample size. Drawing one's own conclusions is also a quintessential aspect of hacker culture. Though I suppose that's not why you chose to have "webmaster" in your username and hypothesis…
    - nottorp 1y ago
      You'd think so but it appears they just don't click on strange links instead.
- Rallen89 1y ago
  10 TB file from a random website that I have never heard of? Seems like if someone was to leak this a more reputable news agency would have been notified instead of... trendsnewsline
  - BoredPositron 1y ago
    You don't have to download the whole 10TB...
    - Rallen89 1y ago
      Seems very odd an ai account?* is posting a seemingly unknown 'news' site to a very large unverified file that didn't seem to pass the desk of any major news org and all the 'sources' of this leak come from the same mediafire link, not even a torrent? *account details looks odd, copy and pasting ai summary of article
      - deleted 1y ago
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  - Sonnigeszeug 1y ago
    Who if not people / experts reading on hn? Click yourself any server anywhere, download it, analyse it, share your findings.
    - miningape 1y ago
      Right because we all have the time, memory, and sandboxed virtual machine to test this safely without getting hacked. Obvious honeypot is obvious. If you want (technical) people to download your malware you're gonna have to do better than this.
      - Sonnigeszeug 1y ago
        This goes for me in direction of civil service tbh. and if someone should do something and support, this is the thing we should do. If people on hn, knowing how things work, are skiddisch, what normal people will do? even less.
EdwardDiego 1y ago
Hugged? Or DOSed?

Any validity besides one news article? seems to be getting the hug of death atm.

BoredPositron 1y ago

Just download the data and validate it yourself if you are skeptical? I guess that's why they released it...

owebmaster 1y ago
That's a fast way to get hacked or become a target. We can do better in this forum security-wise
- BoredPositron 1y ago
  We are on a forum were most users should know how to operate data that has the probability of malware in it...
  - owebmaster 1y ago
    Just now you commented (and removed) that it's improbable that a file this big would be a honeypot, I don't think most users here know how to operate data safely.
    - BoredPositron 1y ago
      I deleted it because the discussion is void. The data is on torrent trackers and on shared file hosters. You can download single files in the torrent and if you can't handle a txt file without getting an anxiety attack that's on you.
      - owebmaster 1y ago
        I'm not interested in the content but you are, share your findings in place of asking ppl to do that. Why there are so many profiles (many of them green) hurrying people to stop thinking about risks and just open the files? Shouldn't they just open it and see? Edit as I can't reply: your behavior is quite suspicious and so is some of the new green users commenting. That is exactly what someone embedded in the hacker culture would conclude after analyzing, not feel challenged by you to hurry and open the files.
        BoredPositron 1y ago
        Of course, I am interested in major data leaks, as most people on this forum should be, since it's an integral part of the culture of the word before news in the url. After examining approximately 20 files, my initial impression is that it appears to be scraped OSINT data. However, I won't make definitive claims based on such a limited sample size. Drawing one's own conclusions is also a quintessential aspect of hacker culture. Though I suppose that's not why you chose to have "webmaster" in your username and hypothesis…
  - nottorp 1y ago
    You'd think so but it appears they just don't click on strange links instead.
Rallen89 1y ago
10 TB file from a random website that I have never heard of? Seems like if someone was to leak this a more reputable news agency would have been notified instead of... trendsnewsline
- BoredPositron 1y ago
  You don't have to download the whole 10TB...
  - Rallen89 1y ago
    Seems very odd an ai account?* is posting a seemingly unknown 'news' site to a very large unverified file that didn't seem to pass the desk of any major news org and all the 'sources' of this leak come from the same mediafire link, not even a torrent? *account details looks odd, copy and pasting ai summary of article
    - deleted 1y ago
      [deleted]
- Sonnigeszeug 1y ago
  Who if not people / experts reading on hn? Click yourself any server anywhere, download it, analyse it, share your findings.
  - miningape 1y ago
    Right because we all have the time, memory, and sandboxed virtual machine to test this safely without getting hacked. Obvious honeypot is obvious. If you want (technical) people to download your malware you're gonna have to do better than this.
    - Sonnigeszeug 1y ago
      This goes for me in direction of civil service tbh. and if someone should do something and support, this is the thing we should do. If people on hn, knowing how things work, are skiddisch, what normal people will do? even less.

EdwardDiego 1y ago

Hugged? Or DOSed?