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Telescope and state website hacked ? - beepbeep - 04-27-2015
I apologize if this has been posted. My eyes are really bothering me today and I can't find it.
I'm so shocked the protests may have gone so far in this direction...
http://www.wilx.com/home/headlines/Hawaii-Telescope-Site-Hacked-301404851.html?device=tablet&c=y
(Says alleged so maybe none of this happened...I hope so)
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/28903787/alleged-cyber-attack-on-state-website-in-opposition-of-tmt-during-special-uh-regents-meeting
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RE: Telescope and state website hacked ? - PunaMauka2 - 04-27-2015
http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/local-news/hackers-disrupt-tmt-state-websites
sorry for the strain beepbeep, your eyes were not playing tricks on you. i believe this was the link you saw posted yesterday.
from the Hawaii Tribune Herald.
the disclaimer offered by KAHEA...
"KAHEA, a group representing Hawaiians and environmentalists, said on its Facebook page that Anonymous “answers to no one” and is not affiliated with those protesting the TMT in Hawaii.
“This is a sign that the matter is serious,” KAHEA said. “And it is not diminishing, by any means. We pray that aloha will prevail in all, and ask that everyone join that prayer.”
RE: Telescope and state website hacked ? - PaulW - 04-27-2015
"Nothing will ever justify the destruction of ecosystems"
Where do these people live, in a field? What do they wear?
It is a bit strange, I thought so far Anonymous had mostly been a force for good, I didn't know they'd gone all anti-science.
RE: Telescope and state website hacked ? - ironyak - 04-27-2015
Anonymous is a loosely associated group of activist hackers. Anyone can define an Op, and different groups focus on various issues of social justice or protection of freedoms. They tend to adopt causes and leverage their considerable technical skill and resources to achieve their own defined goals.
This action fell under Operation Green Rights which appears to be focsed on environmental and cultural protection.
http://operationgreenrights.blogspot.de/p/manifesto.html
RE: Telescope and state website hacked ? - PaulW - 04-27-2015
Thanks. There's a Contact Us link there. Maybe someone more eloquent than me can contact them and politely show that the TMT is neither destroying "Nature" nor "ancient Cultures".
RE: Telescope and state website hacked ? - TomK - 04-27-2015
Or risk being hacked or making things worse. 50/50, but my suggestion would not try and reason with an anonymous group. You've no idea with whom you are dealing.
RE: Telescope and state website hacked ? - terracore - 04-27-2015
If the article is correct, the web sites were not "hacked". "Hacking" involves breaching security in some way and gaining unauthorized access.
The amateur "denial of service" attack can be implemented by a single person running a few lines of code that generate thousands of simultaneous internet requests from a single web site that overwhelms its capabilities making it inaccessible to legitimate users. Imagine opening up 1000 instances of your web browser on the machine you are reading this on, then going to hulu or netflix on all 1000 windows and start a movie. None of them will play. High traffic web sites have intelligent routers that detect and disable such requests but low traffic, low risk web sites generally aren't built using such expensive architecture.
I'm not saying Anonymous isn't responsible, but using such a ghetto tactic?
RE: Telescope and state website hacked ? - PunaMauka2 - 04-27-2015
"Nothing will ever justify the destruction of ecosystems"
makes you wonder about the accuracy of circumstances as they are portrayed and viewed from afar in other "causes".
...now wait a minute, might Anonymous better represent that statement by targeting the invasive ant spreading "protectors"?
RE: Telescope and state website hacked ? - TomK - 04-27-2015
Terracore. Just guessing, so treat it as that, I've not had a chance to speak to our own computer people yet.
Many of the observatories have some rather smart computer people working for them, including system administrators. It may be that one or two of the sites couldn't be hacked so instead the hackers resorted to rudimentary denial of service attacks. The CFHT had to deal with "spam" telephone calls which gives at least a little bit of credibility to what I'm suggesting. In the past, the Joint Astronomy Centre (RIP) was subject to such attacks, but they were always just random.
Can't speak as to what happened with the state websites.
I'll talk to some people tomorrow. I suspect there's no major hacking campaign going on, but if there's anything I can say without giving things away or just guessing, I'll do so.
RE: Telescope and state website hacked ? - ironyak - 04-27-2015
A denial of service (DoS) or more commonly a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) is standard fare for Anonymous actions. Agreed, not hacking per se but it's being credited to this faction of Anonymous as part of its environmental hacktivist successes.
http://gizmodo.com/anonymous-still-trolling-after-all-these-years-1700374189