Cyberwar Thread - General - Facepunch Forum

In this thread we discuss the ongoing Cyberwars, and hacktivism in general. The internet is the place where the underdogs rule, the place where white hats and script kiddies keep giant governments on their toes, and it's a completely new type of war. Whether your support it or not, it's happening. [b]WEAPONS OF THE WARS[/b] Hacker weapons: DDoS: An easy attack in which servers are flooded. Hard to defend against. Requires massive amounts of bandwith split across large groups of people to be pulled off right. Defacement: One of the easier ones, and also the most ineffective Hacking: Very hard to pull off, but very rewarding, leaving you with thousands of incriminating files and whatnot. What everyone is afraid of. Take-down: When a large group of people work together using the previous tactics, a website can literally be taken to the ground, to a point beyond recovery. Near impossible, but it's been done. Government/Corporate weapons: Seizure: A domain is removed completely from a server. Easy to pull off, but is becoming harder due to new advancements Slander: Creating bad press for the website or attackers, making them lose support. Not very effective. Watching everything they have on the internet burn to the ground: Why you don't piss off the internet. [b]ONGOING WARS[/b] The Wikileaks Skirmishes: A website called Wikileaks was taken down, and as Wikileaks tries to reorganize itself a group of Vigilantes pledge to defend it using any means possible. Easy to participate in, just use the LOIC to choose a side. Copyrights of the Carribean: Torrent users engage in minor skirmishes with record companies, less cyberviolence and more petitions and legal advancements. Several websites fall prey to being seized by US. [b]RECENT NEWS[/b] Anonymous squares off against banks fighting Wikileaks, wins with much collateral damage. US seizes several domains it finds unacceptable, leading the webmasters behind them to have to resort to more exotic domain extensions. [b]RECENT DEVLOPMENTS IN CYBERWAR TECHNOLOGY[/b] Programmers work to develop a .p2p extension for websites, make DDoS attacks much less effective and making them immune to being taken down [url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/]GET YOUR ARMS HERE[/url]

[QUOTE=Raneman;26571635]hacktivism white hats script kiddies[/QUOTE] :frog:

A true public servant. Someone give this man a medal.

[QUOTE=TheDiddler;26571828]A true public servant. Someone give this man a medal.[/QUOTE] Here, OP! [img_thumb]http://static.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/winner.png[/img_Thumb]

Cyberwar? To the matrix!

This bullshit "cyberwar" media craze is just hilarious. People seem to have such little knowledge of the internet these days.

Oh noes get to my cyber bunker!!!!11

While I personally get all excited over this kind of stuff and see this as a big deal, DDoS'ing a few tens of major websites,s crewing with credit cards, leaking a few hundred cred card infos and then doing it to support Wikileaks isn't exactly a cyber war, more like an internet-community-political-conflict. Cyber war is when actual countries actually use actual electronics, to, like, actually hurt each other's actual electronic infrastructure which actually affects their actual nations.

Is that link even legal to use?

I came in this thread expecting a bunch of 13 year olds flaming eachother. ...Thank god i was wrong.

Well, I call them Cyber Skirmishes. A real cyberwar is about to erupt, though. A series of skirmishes over Wikileaks will eventually escalate and may be our virtual World War III.

[QUOTE=Raneman;26572384]Well, I call them Cyber Skirmishes. A real cyberwar is about to erupt, though.[/QUOTE] I think The History Channel's feeding you too much crap :colbert:

Inciting raids/DDOS is a one-way ticket to the Refugee camp.

Someone stated above that it really isn't a war, just people doing what they see as right to get their point across. In this case it just seems to be DDoSing websites which, though questionable, for the current purpose I completely agree with.

I didn't incite raiding, I simply explained how to raid. I'm not saying "go do this" I'm informing those interesting how to do it.

you do know LOIC can DDOS this site. Smart move

[QUOTE=TheSpy;26572792]you do know LOIC can DDOS this site. Smart move[/QUOTE] I'm fairly sure it can DDos any site. And its not as if most of the people here didn't know about it already.

[QUOTE=TheSpy;26572792]you do know LOIC can DDOS this site. Smart move[/QUOTE] Saying this is like going into the Firearms thread and saying "You do know guns can kill innocent people, right?"

I was expecting a thread about communities online which hate and battle with each other in some fantasy of the OP. You, OP have not met my expectations to I'm going to sledge you are DDoS you until you are completey pulled of facepunch - I will do this with my hacking skills and I will deface you! You should of never posted this and then our cyberduel wouldn't have erupted. You can only blame yourself.

I'm sorry but i thought that War is when theres a major conflict with victims and military power through it things like that, you could call this a instability. Hey my opinion!

some guy once ddos'd or dos'd me because I killed him in a garrysmod roleplay, all my connections quit and i couldnt get back onto the net for 5 minutes, when i finally go back on, he told me he ddos'd me and i just called him a faggot and told him to get laid then left the server lol

Who in their right mind would download LOIC, honestly?

[QUOTE=Onlyonebowman;26573517]Who in their right mind would download LOIC, honestly?[/QUOTE] someone who plans on using it

Its not a war since the government has the "power switch" on the internet anyways

[QUOTE=TheSpy;26572792]you do know LOIC can DDOS this site. Smart move[/QUOTE] It's not like you'd be able to take down an entire server with just a single LOIC running. You'd need to do it in a collaborated attack. Pretty much all of the previous DDoS attacks on Facepunch where with either a botnet or a dedicated server.

I guarantee the US government doesn't care about some sites going down for a few hours.

nevar forget 4/27/2007 when I couldn't pay by card for a few hours, among other things. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia[/url]

TO THE ION CANNON! [img]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090920212130/cnc/images/6/60/Third_ion_cannon.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=RichyZ;26572579]i got a cyber gun license and a cyber rifle just in-case the wars get out of hand.[/QUOTE] [img]http://electron-sale.com/pic/200933018302615271.jpg[/img] [editline]8th December 2010[/editline] Anyone else getting an error in winrar when opening LOIC? [code]! C:\Users\Austin\Downloads\loic-1.0.3-binary (2).zip: Unexpected end of archive ! C:\Users\Austin\Downloads\loic-1.0.3-binary (2).zip: The archive is either in unknown format or damaged ! Cannot execute "C:\Users\Austin\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX00.682\LOIC.exe" [/code]

[QUOTE=Ender_Wiggin;26574040] Anyone else getting an error in winrar when opening LOIC?[/QUOTE] Hi Austin.