Re: 'Patriotic' hacker claims credit for WikiLeaks attack

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Brance Amussen <brance () jhu edu> wrote:
> Definitely glad this patriots can spell...

It makes me wonder how much of this information is actually
misinformation, which begs other questions....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
> Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:06 AM
> To: FunSec
> Subject: [funsec] 'Patriotic' hacker claims credit for WikiLeaks attack
>
> http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/29/5544493-patriotic-hacker-cla
> ims-credit-for-wikileaks-attack
>
> A single hacker is taking credit for the "mass distributed denial of
> service attack" that threatened to take down WikiLeaks shortly before
> its scheduled post of thousands of classified memos between U.S.
> diplomats.
>
> At approximately the same time WikiLeaks alerted its Twitter followers
> to the DDoS attack, "Jester," a self-proclaimed "hacktivist for good,"
> sent this message from his Twitter account:
>
>    @th3j35t3r (Jester) www.wikileaks.org- TANGO DOWN - INDEFINITLEY -
>    for threatening the lives of our troops and 'other assets'

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