KIan Strikes Back: Hacks Anonymous’ Twitter Account
[su_center_ad]In the escalating war between mask and hood, the KKK has pulled off something no one expected: They successfully took control of the @Operation_KKK Twitter account. The account, until Sunday, functioned as a conduit of information regarding the Ku Klux Klan and its activities regarding the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Shortly after the account announced thatβ¦
UPDATE: Anonymous says they’ve reclaimed their account.
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R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 2:37 pm
Sorry, but somebody has to say it:
LULZY! “You have provoked us.”
Anomaly 100 November 24th, 2014 at 2:41 pm
Anonymous has control of their account again. It didn’t last long:-)
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 2:50 pm
Oh, Twitter Inc. would have taken care of that for them. π
BUT! About that DM history… What got compromised in that? *Who* got compromised in that?
Anomaly 100 November 24th, 2014 at 2:51 pm
DM history of Anon? Oh God I feel so old and confused right now.
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 2:53 pm
If the account sent any Direct Messages (private stuff) then whoever took over had access to all that while they had access to it.
Spirit of America November 25th, 2014 at 5:34 am
You can also get ip’s of followers to that account once in, getting a lot more information to use later.
Anomaly 100 November 25th, 2014 at 7:08 am
Not if you don’t work for Twitter.
Spirit of America November 25th, 2014 at 7:14 am
There are a couple of ways actually, easiest is to send out a link for
them to follow, say a base of a google search, use a url shortener &
track that way. some other ways take a bit more sophistication, but it
is done.
Oh yea, …
Hey, you’re up early again.
(getting to like typing that)
Anomaly 100 November 25th, 2014 at 8:27 am
To my knowledge, in order to obtain someone’s IP address via a link, you’d have to be affiliated with the site you send them to. And it’s illegal to hand out IP addresses.
Yes, I’m up. I had to see if Ferguson was on fire:-(
Spirit of America November 25th, 2014 at 8:37 am
Neg, there is both software for your system and servers that will do it for you. Sure it is illegal, but I was commenting on the kkk/anon twitter thing… the kkk once in the anon account has a wealth of info that could be gleaned if known how… or paid someone.
Last count, 12 buildings burned down, all small businesses… I soooooo feel for those owners…. holidays coming up, lost everything….dam@!!!
Anomaly 100 November 25th, 2014 at 8:43 am
I feel awful for the business owners, too. I tried to go to sleep last night, but kept wondering if Ferguson was still there, so I got back up, turned on the TV and live feeds. There are no winners here. But, I can’t imagine what they thought would happen. They wanted McCulloch to step down ages ago (and for very good reasons), but he insisted on remaining with the Wilson case.
I’ll ask @ComgenKDT about the IP thingy. I’m a tech-dummy. He was FreakOutNation’s admin and he’s also a security expert. I suck at that sort of thing.
Spirit of America November 25th, 2014 at 8:55 am
A sam’s meat market lawyer already said that it won’t be coming back. lawyer said a few other business clients of his saying same thing.
I suck at more things than I’m good at, so no biggy. π
Anomaly 100 November 25th, 2014 at 9:00 am
Sam’s meat market? What won’t come back?
Spirit of America November 25th, 2014 at 10:23 am
That’s a business there that was looted 1st time, burned this time, called Sam’s meat market.
mea_mark November 24th, 2014 at 3:00 pm
I doubt they did much DM on twitter. They probably do more email through VPN and probably encrypted. Any DM would be to those not in Legion, just contacts.
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 3:01 pm
Assuming someone smart and not cocky. (Rules out most human beings.)
mea_mark November 24th, 2014 at 2:43 pm
It will be interesting to see what Anonymous does tonight after the Grand Jury announcement.
arc99 November 24th, 2014 at 2:50 pm
Obviously I am not defending the Klan.
But I have to say that my very first home computer in the late 1980’s was a Commodore 64. It was a compelling piece of technology through which I learned rudimentary game programming as well as the concepts of Assembler language.
Someone who knows their way around a C-64 would be more than a technical match for someone who only knows how to point and click around the web.
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 2:52 pm
C-64!? I had to make do with the VIC-20, peeking and poking data bits into memory. Pages of handwritten code that I’d type in, test, run… and then lose whenever I turned the machine off, because I didn’t have the tape storage drive to save it.
arc99 November 24th, 2014 at 2:56 pm
I guess our adventures with early computer technology will go down in history with the grandfolks’ tales of walking 10 miles to school in the snow.
Tape drive? Now that is back to basics. At least my C64 has a floppy drive. As I recall it was an incredibly large 1 megabyte. How in the world would I ever fill up all that space I wondered. Now I know… a single jpeg might do it these days.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2014 at 3:36 pm
I remember someone I was in the AF with had a Sinclair “computer”, sold in the US by Timex (really) and it had a cassette drive. Took forever for a program to load. I mean hours. It was really a computer in name only.
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 4:14 pm
Beat the heck out of the abacus, though. π
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2014 at 4:48 pm
A skilled abacus user is pretty fast.
Spirit of America November 25th, 2014 at 5:28 am
altair 8800 was my first
tracey marie November 24th, 2014 at 2:55 pm
Like anonymous said…the kkk PAID a hacker
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 2:58 pm
Anonymous may be smart with computers. But the KKK is smart enough — and wealthy enough — to contract out the work.
No shame in that, except for, you know, KKK.
tiredoftea November 24th, 2014 at 3:50 pm
A distinction without a difference. The fact is that anonymous was hacked, if true.
tracey marie November 24th, 2014 at 4:04 pm
the diffrence is none were capable of doing such a thing themselves
tiredoftea November 24th, 2014 at 4:06 pm
Paying for things to be done shows a reasonable level of sophistication.
tracey marie November 24th, 2014 at 4:10 pm
true, and enough money to make it happen.
honestyingov November 24th, 2014 at 4:11 pm
I did’t know cutting eyeholes in a pillow case is now considered ” sophisticated “?
It might be for people watch a Duck Dynasty Marathon I suppose
tiredoftea November 24th, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Well, they do have to get the eyes holes properly placed to see out of, so there’s that. But, it’s not like this is an NSA level hack that couldn’t be done by a klan sympathizer.
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 4:32 pm
Like buying a facemask replica of a convicted terrorist who tried to blow up Parliament because you’re an Alan Moore geek is sophisticated?
Spirit of America November 25th, 2014 at 5:26 am
I don’t put much credit for telling the truth on either side… I want to see the receipt for this transaction…
π
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 4:13 pm
If true indeed. It’s not above Anonymous to run a false flag on themselves to gin up attention.
tiredoftea November 24th, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Something the klan has no need of!
Foundryman November 24th, 2014 at 3:00 pm
The real klan, not the fake one….lol…..Looks like anonymous has a new target..
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Which anonymous? The real anonymous, or the fake one? π
tiredoftea November 24th, 2014 at 3:47 pm
The anonymous anonymous.
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 3:54 pm
Ohhh… the eponymous Anonymous!
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Which begs the question, Who did the KKK hire to take on Anonymous? Anonemesis?
tiredoftea November 24th, 2014 at 4:27 pm
Begging one’s own question takes all the fun out of this, no?
Ron Jackson November 24th, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Klan=tea party
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 3:00 pm
No I’m not.
AnthonyLook November 24th, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Hmmmm.
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 3:06 pm
“In the escalating war between mask and hood…”
I almost thought I was reading another publicity piece for the upcoming ARROW / THE FLASH crossover event on CW.
Mike Butkus Jr. November 24th, 2014 at 3:15 pm
my oh my, you’ve been busy on this thread
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 3:20 pm
It’s a cyber-pissing-contest. Those are always lulzy.
tiredoftea November 24th, 2014 at 4:55 pm
BTW, bigger ones happening at craigslist and Sony!
tiredoftea November 24th, 2014 at 3:50 pm
Oh, great, the new coke vs. pepsi wars are full on!
R.J. Carter November 24th, 2014 at 3:57 pm
LESS FILLING!
tiredoftea November 24th, 2014 at 4:08 pm
GREAT TAs… oh wait, wrong damn beverage war!