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- politics@lemmy.world
A website dedicated to naming ICE and Border Patrol employees is coming under a “prolonged and sophisticated” cyber attack after the Daily Beast revealed it planned to make public 4,500 names of federal immigration staff.
The founder of ICE List said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic originating in Russia after the Beast reported that a huge cache of personal IDs had been leaked to the site by an alleged Department of Homeland Security whistleblower.
The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault, which began on Tuesday evening and is still ongoing at the time of publication, saw a huge number of IPs simultaneously access the website of ICE List, a self-styled “accountability initiative.”
This has successfully overloaded the ICE List’s servers and is preventing people from accessing the site. The timing coincided with ICE List founder Dominick Skinner telling the Daily Beast he would make public the first tranche of names in the dataset, which was leaked following the shooting by an ICE agent of mom Renee Nicole Good.
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Make a torrent and it will be on the internet forever.
Given how small a dataset it is, in addition tona torrent it can also be shared in an ever growing list of Mega links.
If it’s small could it be incorporated in the Bitcoin blockchain?
Shut the fuck up with this bullshit. No one wants the blockchain.
It’s not entirely a stupid idea.
Block-chains are an append-only ledger where each block includes a cryptographic hash of the previous block, where new blocks are accepted by quorum across all independent nodes. The only way to fuck with the ledger to erase history would be to either exploit an undisclosed flaw in the cryptographic hash, or have enough nodes to convince the every other node that their version of history is wrong and that this fake version of history is the only truth.
Burning an undisclosed cryptographic vulnerability for this would be an extremely stupid (but plausible) idea that would make the vulnerability worthless to them in the future. Even if they didn’t have to burn a vulnerability to break the block-chain’s system of trust by rewriting history, they just proved that bitcoin is untrustworthy—which would immediately destroy its financial value.
What might actually be even better, though, is that multimillionaires, billionaires, and the United States government itself hold a bunch of cryptocurrency. The former for investment/tax evasion/laundering, and the latter in seized assets. On top of that, many criminals and hostile foreign governments hold Bitcoin, too.
Encoding the list in the Etherium or Bitcoin block-chains would make removing it extremely self-destructive for the fascists who don’t want the list to be public. It becomes a lose-lose situation for them.
A bittorrent magnet link or IPFS would be less wasteful, but they lack the self-destructive disincentive that would make them think twice about even trying to stop it.
Or you could just use a magnet link to circulate the torrent and use the DHT as your “block chain”. No need to add more moving parts…
Or do all of the above? It ain’t limited to one choice.
Entangling the destruction of the list with the destruction of cryptocurrency itself isn’t a bad thing either. If they impulsively destroy the value of bitcoin, they hurt the people whos opinions they actually care about: the 0.01%.
Now why on earth would Russia want to halt the leak? Especially when they’re so mad at us about Venezuela and the oil we’re seizing? 🤔
The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault,
That’s not was DDOS means: Distributed Denial of Service
…meaning it comes from so many different sources its very hard to block.
It’s the daily beast, would not be surprised if the article was AI hallucinated based on a few tweets or something
Is it possible to filter posts by url on lemmy? I don’t want to see more daily beast slop…
The reason I used Daily Beast was because I was looking for info on Icelist earlier today to see if there was any news on what happened … and Daily Beast was the only site that had up-to-date info.
It sounds to me like a simple region block would do the trick nicely. It’s not like this website is intended for a Russian audience so block them all and be done with it.
AI doesn’t know that.
It’s a common acronym. This isn’t the kind of thing an LLM would screw up, in my experience, I’d put my money on human error for this one.
That’s what torrents are for
The founder of ICE List said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic originating in Russia
Putin and his Black Hundreds trying to protect the little army of Kluxers in olive drab.
So Russian criminals are helping American GeStaPo fascists in taking over the country? What a coincidence…
I don’t know what you guys are talking about. I have no problem accessing the site. Could I be on a fake one? https://icelist.is/ice/
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mine looks like this and when I click on an office, person or directory, it yields dozens of sub categories or more names of underlings:
Yeah, but all of that info was there last week. Nothing from the new leak.
Make the static dataset available on IPFS and you’ll have node operators pin it on their instance. Good luck taking that down.
I’d be okay with a torrent as well.
Even more reason why it should be released as a dump, and not walled in behind a website.
Friends Helping Friends ❤️
Oh noes. So horrible that there are no other ways this can be disseminated and I am SURE the organizers aren’t looking into those at all.
I guess the more interesting question is… is this putin or is it just a black hat for hire working out of russia?
I guess the more interesting question is… is this putin or is it just a black hat for hire working out of russia?
I have good money on it being a “friend” of Pooty-Poot’s who wants to squash resistance to ICE. Possibly someone who’s in a position of power. Possibly someone who’s a demented rapist felon and a pathological liar.
Does Putin want fascism or civil war in the US?
Trying to get into the mind of a deranged fascist is a futile effort at the best of times.
But my speculation? He understands that trump is a real shit asset. Way too impulsive and he is rapidly reaching the point where even video of him sucking off bill clinton won’t make a difference (and, thus, won’t be a threat). And putin is competing with all the other people pulling trump’s strings who don’t need to get on a plane to intimidate him.
So either way works. The point is to negate the US as a threat (either by turning us into an ally or letting us murder each other) and, as a result, negate NATO as a threat. Because most of NATO aren’t fucking lunatics who put a massive percentage of one of the largest GPDs in the world into a standing military. WE were the army of NATO. And… yeah.
If they were interested in actually distributing this they would have just sent a CSV file of the entire list out and the whole list would be floating around social media already. This is a fucking scam.
I’m no expert, but I can think of a few reasons: maintaining an official signed source, data integrity, and complying with takedown regulations:
Your Responsibilities as a Whistleblower
Media and Public Disclosure
Public disclosure receives the least protection under most laws and carries the highest risk. It may be protected in limited circumstances, such as when:
- You reasonably believe disclosure serves the public interest
- You’ve attempted other channels without success
- There’s immediate danger requiring public warning
Even then, protection is uncertain and depends heavily on specific circumstances and applicable laws.
High risk along with public identification means the leaker probably wants to comply as much as possible to state and federal law. From the article:
Skinner said he planned to publish “the majority” of verifiable names, while carving out exceptions for positions like childcare workers and nurses
You guys actually believe Russia would use its own bot net?
Do you not think Russia has access to multiple botnets?
So . . . Trump reached out to daddy for help.
All they needed to do was put out a torrent.
Whoever has this info, if its real is a moron bar none. One torrent and by now it would be everywhere. Instead they create a puff website for it.
… but think of the donations! /s
