[AusNOG] ABC Website Hacked

Thu Feb 28 07:50:11 EST 2013

Is it passionate debate or argument. Freedom of speech is only allowed where it is approved. I guess there even has to be guidelines about how free you can have speech. In Australia we can say almost anything on a soap box and the worst that is likely to happen is having rotten fruit, vegetables and the occasional fist thrown at you. Freedom of speech in some places can incite riots, death and general mayhem. Freedom of speech here can incite riots in those more volatile places.

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Kai
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:30 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ABC Website Hacked

A freedom of speech advocate attacking freedom of speech by hacking the ABC for giving coverage to Geert Wilders' speech because don't like what he has to say.
Yeah, right "freedom of speech....but only if I agree with it".

Streisand effect here we come?

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From: "Damian Guppy" <the.damo at gmail.com>
To: "Aqius" <aqius at lavabit.com>
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 5:05:07 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ABC Website Hacked

I personally think this attack is gaining the guy more attention than the original interview on ABC itself, the first i heard of this dutch guy was from the attack. Seems kind of counter-productive of what the attacker was going after... 

--Damian 

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Aqius < aqius at lavabit.com > wrote: 

OT, but hacking the ABC site (essentially attacking freedom of speech via threatening the media through mass abuse of Australian website members) seems a fairly full on approach... And one that is likely to lead to hostility from the victims towards the rather than empathy. Did anyone see the show - I’m curious how full on this guy is? 

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net ] On Behalf Of Giles Pollock 
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2013 14:43 
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net 
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ABC Website Hacked 

Looks like SHA1, some of the hashes match SHA1 rainbow tables if you do a quick google search... Hope ABC is locking down and letting people know to change their passwords on other services... 

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Damian Guppy < the.damo at gmail.com > wrote: 

However if they are using a common unsalted hash like MD5 then it is trivial to use a rainbow table to get the passwords in seconds. 

--Damian 

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Noon Silk < noonslists at gmail.com > wrote: 

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Tim March < march.tim at gmail.com > wrote: 
> 
> [...] 

> 
> I haven't looked at the dump but I won't be surprised if the passwords are 
> trivially decryptable if they're encrypted at all. 1Password is your friend. 

So-as to prevent continued mis-use of language here; hashed passwords 
can't be "decrypted". It is only possible to find another string which 
hashes to the same value. 

> T. 

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