Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4
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 dump from September 15 2007 by the group MDD (MediaDefender-Defenders). <...> -- --- Joly MacFie� 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -- - # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4
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: https://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-emails-leaked-070915/ >From the leak: "MediaDefender-Defenders proudly presents 9 months worth of internal MediaDefender emails "By releasing these emails we hope to secure the privacy and personal integrity of all peer-to-peer users. The emails contains information about the various tactics and technical solutions for tracking p2p users, and disrupt p2p services. "A special thanks to Jay Maris, for circumventing there entire email-security by forwarding all your emails to your gmail account, and using the really highly secure password: blahbob "So here it is, we hope this is enough to create a viable defense to the tactics used by these companies, also there should be enough fuel to keep the p2p bloggers busy for quite some time." On Wed, July 6, 2016 1:01 pm, Gabriella \"Biella\" Coleman wrote: >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.. <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4
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 significant for giving a sense of just what an email leak could offer but people were thankfully protected for the reasons you mention below (ie, they acquired it legally thanks to sloppy security). But still looking for any examples of more pure PWNAGE with a complementary public interest leak/dump prior to Anonymous (and excluding the Scientology example!) All best, Biella On 2016-07-06 01:56 PM, Steve McLaughlin wrote: > 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. <...> -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4
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 emails/documents that are newsworthy and leaking them to the public The exemplar examples from Anonymous are 1. ACS Law leaks (not rly resulting from a hack but... very close). 2. HB Gary leaks 3. Stratfor leaks And then other good examples 1. CIA emails by cracka 2. Sony pictures email by GOP (even though the political motivation is very unclear, super interesting info in there and was used by journalists to write stories about gender disparity 3. Like all of Phineas Phisher's hacks for leaking 4. Lulzsec Peru's hack of the Peruvian gov and leaking emails with evidence of massive government corruption that almost brought the cabinet down. 5. Others I have collected ... (more minor and all post the Anonymous era). There were many many website defacements and also what I would characterize as sabotage leaks but not much in the form of public interest leaking (and again excluding vulnerability research/data which to be sure can take the form of a public interest hack and leak). Biella On 2016-07-06 11:23 AM, t byfield wrote: > 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 Chandler (1953). Granted, two examples are a pretty > flimsy basis for constructing a theory, but already there seems like > there might be a divide between one sense (British?) of > announcing/introducing -- think regimental assemblies -- and another > (American?) of a cop interrupting a crime and/or calling attention to > it. Both of those are images are overflowing with evocative > suggestions of space, how it's organized, and the place of different > kinds of agency in it. Note the ambivalent present of, let's say, *the > state*: blowing a whistle serves to mobilize or synchronize scattered > activity or attention. There are many lots more interesting examples. > My hunch is that you'll find the phrase paces the rise of a regulatory > state bureaucracy. <...> -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4
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 Chandler (1953). Granted, two examples are a pretty flimsy basis for constructing a theory, but already there seems like there might be a divide between one sense (British?) of announcing/introducing -- think regimental assemblies -- and another (American?) of a cop interrupting a crime and/or calling attention to it. Both of those are images are overflowing with evocative suggestions of space, how it's organized, and the place of different kinds of agency in it. Note the ambivalent present of, let's say, *the state*: blowing a whistle serves to mobilize or synchronize scattered activity or attention. There are many lots more interesting examples. My hunch is that you'll find the phrase paces the rise of a regulatory state bureaucracy. The default examples are Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, of course, but -- really surprising, IMO -- the OED's definition 1(b) for the verb "to leak out (fig.)"... to transpire or become known in spite of efforts at concealment ...is based on several citations dated 1832-1884, most of suggest or mention the ur-medium: rumor. As with many things, I think it's less a question of progress (say, in terms of novel ways to disseminate ~privileged knowledge in documentary form) than of forgetting that leaks and whistleblowing, under other names, are also probably the oldest 'media.' Just to be clear, my point isn't to reaffirm some grumpy insistence that nothing has changed -- everything has. Cheers, T On 6 Jul 2016, at 9:01, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote: 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.. <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
