Just noticed this
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/18/prince_philip_prestel_hack/
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Radi Pira <[2]radip...@sigaint.org>
wrote:
There's an example from the piracy scene that I think predates the
Chanology leaks: the Media Defender email dum
There's an example from the piracy scene that I think predates the
Chanology leaks: the Media Defender email dump from September 15 2007 by
the group MDD (MediaDefender-Defenders).
The original leak:
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3806944/MediaDefender.Mail.200612.200709-MDD
News coverage:
http
Hi Steve,
Thanks for raising this example. I am briefly mentioning it ... as it is
similar to what happened with ASC law... and am familiar with the case
as I used to be part of the OPG. But still the difference it was not
hackers mucking about as had been the case with ACS law. It also was
signif
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the accidental
leak of Diebold's source code and internal emails in 2003 comes to
mind. It didn't contain a smoking gun as far as I know, just evidence
of sloppy voting booth security.
The real significance of the incident was the
Hi Ted,
I am not looking to historicize the phrase or word whistleblowing or
leak though that no doubt would be interesting :) Hope someone takes
that on.
I am looking for concrete examples and instances of a sub-genre of
whistleblowing: hackers breaking into a computer system *and* finding
email
This is a great question. I guess you've used the bog-standard method of
looking it up? Etymology is pretty old-fashioned, I know, but you never
know what you'll turn up -- like the Oxford English Dictionary's
attestations of the phrase 'blow the whistle' in P. G. Wodehouse (1934)
and Raymond C
Hi all,
I am writing a piece that is trying to historicize direct action
hacking/whistel blowing and am trying to pin point any early examples of
hackers hacking in order to access and then leak the information/emails
to ex pose wrong doing..
Obviously Anonymous popularized the tactic and prio
