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- hydr, on 08/15/2008, -2/+66The next step involved renaming the file to .BAT.
Are you ***** kidding me? - Freshjive787, on 08/15/2008, -5/+68two pages of some ***** stroking his ego.
everyone wants to be their own hero. - inactive, on 08/15/2008, -1/+47Wow. Two pages of a script kiddie nubcaek thinking he is l337 ***** for writing a Windows batch file.
- ZenMojo, on 08/15/2008, -4/+42So...basically...he participated in an international crime with no idea who was giving him orders. Fascinating but still unenlightening. Next time he should start investigating terrorist cells by asking where he can buy some C4 and then randomly bombing buildings.
- Br3ach, on 08/15/2008, -1/+35This sounds so n00b I could almost imagine the support call
"I am trying to open a file to propagate a ***** attack on Russian citizens, but it isnt working"
"Have you tried restarting your PC?"
"Yes, but now I cannot log into Windows" - newl, on 08/15/2008, -6/+36In Soviet Russia, ***** strokes you!
- kecebongsoft, on 08/15/2008, -0/+28First thing that we can do is killing all their web server by placing their links into Digg.
- Badmotorfinger, on 08/15/2008, -8/+29Hack the planet
- Barackalypse, on 08/15/2008, -2/+20So there we have it, proof that the Kremlin has infiltrated American media to use as its propaganda arm. =) Just kidding Vladimir, please don't poison me with Polonium.
- Alias1431, on 08/15/2008, -2/+19It's so cute how he wrote an article about it.
- WarWraith, on 08/15/2008, -0/+16>Many Russians undoubtedly went online to learn how to make mischief, as I did. Within an hour, they, too, could become script kiddies.
There, fixed that for them. - waydee, on 08/15/2008, -3/+19I liked the internet more before noobs were allowed on.
- nuand, on 08/15/2008, -0/+15The author has absolutely no technical background and makes claims that are pretty ridiculous if to them information security is merely flooding some poor httpd with GET /s
- werries, on 08/15/2008, -0/+13doesn't really help anywhere.
- travis6690, on 08/15/2008, -1/+13"But which of the internets do we hack?"
"All of them." - luckless, on 08/15/2008, -0/+12And once again we find out how easy it is to be a script kiddie if even a slate columnist can do it.
I assume the server admins for those sites have never heard of mod_evasive which, while does not justify the actions of people flooding the sites, does show the sad state of many server admins nowadays.
I mean at least it would have stopped wannabe script kiddies from doing any real damage, then resources could be concentrated on stopping real hackers. - Freshjive787, on 08/15/2008, -0/+12do people even know what they're saying on this website anymore? goddamn this isn't 4chan.
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -1/+13Oh gawd.
The majority of them sound like a bunch of angsty emo kids if you ask me... Though i don't support Scientology. - FordPrefect78, on 08/15/2008, -0/+9I don't think that this is the way cyber warfare is working.Sure, if you get enough people to crush down a web-server you might "win", but anyway the real problems are botnets causing really huge DDOS attacks from anonymous sources. (Also look at the articles comments on slate.) I doubt whether you can really get so many single attackers at place with simple pings.
I've been asking myself what would be the use of such a denial of service attack at government sites? O.k. some foreigners can not access the latest news, but hey, there should be journalists and other people there to tell us things about whats going on. Anyway sometimes government web-sites are not the best thing to trust... What would make a real damage and real "warfare" to me would be defacements and placement of wrong information on this web-sites. Especially if they are not recognised as this in the first place. - JeremyGrieves, on 08/15/2008, -2/+10Could this article be anymore pointless? He learned to be a skiddie, woop de *****.
- vikinglander, on 08/15/2008, -0/+8I hope the sensible Russians here at DIGG, and those that can speak Russian, will talk some sense to these people. What does taking down websites do? If they want to do something, help the displaced Russians and or displaced Georgians - do something constructive. DOS in this situation is plain stupid.
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -0/+8This little story made me want to throw up
>Many Russians undoubtedly went online to learn how to make mischief, as I did. Within an hour, they, too, could become cyberwarriors. - maninalift, on 08/15/2008, -0/+7don't digg him down, this stuff is great. We have found an enigmatic prophet of peace.
- Shiptonator, on 08/15/2008, -0/+7'I helped the Russian cyber war on Georgia to show Georgia that the Russians could have a Cyber war with them'... *****
- madfrogurt, on 08/15/2008, -0/+7It's amazing how the mad scribblings of a schizophrenic and/or idiot read a lot like bad haiku.
- ShutYourPieHole, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6He launched a DOS attack from his own network. Bravo, Einstein. That would be difficult to track if someone should so wish to trace the origin.
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6That was among one of the things that bothered me - was he aware that most forms of DoSing are illegal? (Not bandwidth attacks but the proggy he got was certainly illegal.)
- elmundio87, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6cyber warrior? more like script kiddie -.-
- duckyinc, on 08/15/2008, -1/+7"My browser was now sending thousands of queries to the most important Georgian sites, helping to overload them, and it had taken me only two to three minutes to set up."
OMG your so 1337, I'm guessing you forgot how the F5 button worked. Your computer doing that script at best will waste your internetz, any serious hosting company can take that and have tons of bandwidth to spare. (this article is for noobs) - BohicaTwentyTwo, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5Why would a US propagandist try to deflect blame from the Russian government?
- SiXiam, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5Basically he is saying that the Digg Effect makes you a hacker.... Sorry No!
Also what good is being a hacker during an actually war. Even if they managed to take down all of the Georgian owned and operated websites no one would care.
Military resources and government communication is not dependent on the public internet, but the private intranets they set up that can't be hacked publicly. Things like satellite networks and radio bands that aren't publicly accessible.
Here's an American example:
I'm in Pittsburgh and Canada starts attacking it with bombers and tanks. Some Canadian citizen has just knocked down our state department website. Do I care? No!!! - TheAkolyte, on 08/15/2008, -1/+6Dont forget the lulz
- digismack, on 08/15/2008, -4/+9Well, at least that's better than:
"two pages of some hero stroking his *****
everyone wants to be their own ego" - browntiger, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4First I have to say overloading some government website, serves little purpose. Unless Georgian government used they public website to pass orders to they troops - I can not possibly see what is the use. Properly designed sites don't DOS.
Funny, total n00b author think he learned cyber warfare. This is soo bogus.
>My browser was now sending thousands of queries to the most important Georgian sites, helping to overload them, and it had taken me only two to three minutes to set up."
Right, I guess you never heard of cache. Besides overloading server with static GETs is mostly pointless. - HMTKSteve, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4When he says his sympathies lie with Moscow's counterparts what does he mean?
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4So he outlines 3 ways of doing the exact same thing all while breaking the law.... i dont think i could actually manage to do that
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -5/+9The south will rise again, yehaaa!
- DeathfireD, on 08/15/2008, -2/+6A bit off topic but, this is a perfect example of how "Anonymous" works. It's not a single organized group. It's a mixture of people of all ages, all races, with different jobs, all acting on news they read or see. Be it by DoSing, protesting, fighting...or whatever. Then in the end placing a nice anonymous pic or movie on the web to show their association with the name Anonymous. Just my 2cents.
- Tiak, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4A) DDoSing doesn't kill people, guns kill people... Said guns having nothing to do with any DDoS that may occur. Believe it or not, Georgian webservers do not explode when they go offline. That feature was removed months ago.
B) The author in no way "got involved" with the war, just verified that the methods advocated seemed to be effective to his untrained eye.
C) The effects of the methods advocated can be pretty much nullified with some competence.
D) Why so serious? - sildude, on 08/15/2008, -3/+6cmon, it just shows how easy it is to commit such attacks.
- JeremyGrieves, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3You already said that.
- poet, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4i hax tha gibz0n all day long
- kecebongsoft, on 08/15/2008, -1/+3can I implement some stuff from Antitrust or Swordfish movie in this war?
- donjuan571, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Whats this? A war over resources? Nooo wayyy. How about a link to the Sun Tzu, and you might try reading that yourself as well.
- Suriyawong, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2I was kind of wondering about that too... how does taking down the Parliament's website matter? They're dealing with a war, not checking their e-mail...
- TheAkolyte, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2When spam bots smoke pot
- omg404, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2I think you guys are missing the point of the story. He was not trying to be a script-kiddie...He was showing how easy it was to attack the governments website and how almost anyone can do it, especially with the Russians teaching people how to use these programs and create scripts which will ping the sites down causing a DDoS type attack.
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