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Started by Cetacea , Aug 21 2012 04:49 PM

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#1 Cetacea

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 04:49 PM

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OpHarpoon, a campaign whose main goal is to “try and stop” whaling, has made ten victims, all from the Faroe Islands. DoktorBass, a supporter of the Anonymous Australiamovement, appears to be the hacker who runs this operation.

The list of victims includes telecoms company Farose Telecom (ft.fo), car dealership Nordcar (nordcar.fo), news site NetAvisin (netavisin.fo), and analytics site VevListin.fo.


The rest of the targeted websites – whose ownerships we couldn’t precisely determine – are lfb.fo, transport.fo, r2net.fo, ras2.fo, sif.fo and ven.fo.

While some of these websites have been defaced, from most of them the hacker leaked sensitive data such as usernames and clear text passwords, including the ones of the administrators.

“We have targeted your community because of the illegal whaling that goes on here. We want it STOPPED. For too long this has gone on, and day after day these poor innocent animals are slain for money and food. It’s a crime against nature to slaughter them in such a way, and it must END,” a message posted on the defaced pages read.

The statement has been published on all the defaced pages in English and Icelandic. The hacktivist claims that this is only the first stage of the operation and that there is more to come.

At press time, the affected site’s webmasters appeared to be in the process of removing the HTML pages added by the hacker.

For those who don’t remember DoktorBass, he is the hacker who back in July breached the site of the Women’s Land Link Africa (wllaweb.org) and then felt sorry for doing so.

“Right. I've made a mistake obviously. I feel very guilty now about dumping that site, I shouldn't have done it. It was a site promoting women's rights in Africa for [expletive]’s sake. I'm meant to be supporting that,” he said at the time.

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 04:58 PM

Wow! That's new. And totally unexpected.

Its not something that's really been used much, up until now, in ocean and whale saving circles. I can't say it makes me all disaproving cos it doesn't. In fact it made me smile. Don't know much about this kind of thing and the sort of impact it has, but hey, if he wants to take the risk of whatever it is hackers risk to disrupt the Faroes that's fine and dandy with me. :) Marvellous!

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 05:01 PM

View PostSuzzle, on 21 August 2012 - 04:58 PM, said:

Wow! That's new. And totally unexpected.

Its not something that's really been used much, up until now, in ocean and whale saving circles. I can't say it makes me all disaproving cos it doesn't. In fact it made me smile. Don't know much about this kind of thing and the sort of impact it has, but hey, if he wants to take the risk of whatever it is hackers risk to disrupt the Faroes that's fine and dandy with me. :)

I consider it another form of nonviolent protest. Nobody gets physically hurt, and the message gets across.

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 05:03 PM

I think this would be more justified if they were sites connected to the grind (such as those that spread the word so to get the killers ready, or a fisheries service) or pro-whaling sites, but random sites targeted just because of what nation it is from is rather pointless and creates more frustration against conservationists.
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 05:04 PM

More info. Proper statement , The hacked websites, comments etc.

http://www.cyberwarn...-by-doktorbass/

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Yesterday was a busy day for Anonymous Australia hacktivist #DoktorBass who has kicked off a new operation which has been dubbed #OpHarpoon and an operation against whaling.

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Dear Faroes Island residents, We are Anonymous.

We have targeted your community because of the illegal whaling that goes on there. We want it STOPPED. For too long this has gone on, and day after day these poor innocent animals are slain for money and food. It’s a crime against nature to slaughter them in such a way, and it must END. These defacement’s are stage one of our operation, There is more to come.

OoooH! Will be buying some popcorn and watching this one. :ph34r: Amazing!

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 05:29 PM

View Postsuperace, on 21 August 2012 - 05:03 PM, said:

I think this would be more justified if they were sites connected to the grind (such as those that spread the word so to get the killers ready, or a fisheries service) or pro-whaling sites, but random sites targeted just because of what nation it is from is rather pointless and creates more frustration against conservationists.

I don't see a great deal of difference in principle between this and economic sanctions. Both target the commercial sector  of a nation over issues which may not be connected to those who are ultimately affected by it.

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 05:44 PM

Just been looking at the sites. One is Ras 2 (Channel 2) Which appears to be the Faroes Radio Channel website.
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 05:48 PM

This is an interesting bit of civil disobedience.

Clear text passwords = begging to be hacked though. They should at least hash and salt their passwords.

Remember folks, brute force password cracking improves with each increase in processing power -- if they (hackers) manage to get the database or a password file then they can run a program to attempt to match each password to every word in a custom dictionary of common passwords and words in common language (and more). Depending on the complexity of the hashed password it might take a while or it might be nearly instant -- but they will eventually get your password.

So please, when choosing a password make it complex and don't use the same password you use on other websites.

Try a combination of letters and numbers and special characters that don't form a common word, definitely NOT your name or birthday, etc.

That will at least give you time enough to change your password after a site has been exploited -- or to delete sensitive information.

Of course, once they have the admin account or the database itself it's likely they have everything else too.
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 06:34 PM

Just found this film from anonymous on how to fool facial recognition and video surveillance cameras. Fantastic - like something from a sci-fi movie. :ph34r:  :D LOL!

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 07:46 PM

Anonymous is an excellent org. They fight in nonviolent manners for the right reasons.

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 07:57 PM

that is a great idea, to take down the networks behind whaling. they should hack, for say, the ICR website. that would just be marvelous.

congratulation Anonymous, keep up the good work.
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 08:00 PM

Let me guess, the Faroese probably think Paul Watson is behind this.

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 08:08 PM

View PostExecutiveBanana, on 21 August 2012 - 07:57 PM, said:

that is a great idea, to take down the networks behind whaling. they should hack, for say, the ICR website. that would just be marvelous.

congratulation Anonymous, keep up the good work.

I will just be plain here - you  mean the Institute of Cetacean Research website in Japan (The Japanese Whalers) NOT The Institute of Cancer Research (Which is what ICR more usually stands for).

I'd hate someone to get the wrong idea. :)

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 10:31 PM

For members and visitors who don't really understand WHY Anonymous is targetting the Faroes or WHY we care, there's a story here that helps you to undrerstand ..

http://www.redseares...mass-slaughter/

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 10:48 PM

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As far as I know, the last grind occurred on the 8th August this year. Just less than 2 weeks ago.

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:05 AM

I just hope we don't start getting attacks in return from government backed funding.....

(Well to be precise, BIGGER attacks because we are attacked all the time)
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:23 AM

And you should point out, Omar, that these attacks have NOTHING to do with Sea Shepherd.

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:24 AM

that is the down side to direct action, pointing the finger cant be at anonymous because who are they... so only leaves so many NGOS to choose from for retaliaton.

hope it was worth rattling the Faroes cage, would have been nice if they spent the same amount of time with the ICR,  I mean why not, the ICR is probably already funding plenty of people to go after the SSCS website.

cyber games are a waste of time, less you can completely shut down a site permanently or months on end.

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:36 AM

Omar that signature is way too big. :-P
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:41 AM

i like the confidentiality notice, in the age of law suits, we all should have that as a signature,  followed by beware of impending law suit to follow if you decide to ignore this notice.
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