twitter hacked by iranians

pwnd

 

It's already fixed, how did it look like?

 

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

 

Wow... first that take a shit on democracy, now this.

 

The tragic loss of Twitter will quickly go down in the history books as "The Yawn Heard Round The World".

 

You think Iran has that much power? pffffffftt.

 

They tried to destroy Twitter? I love Iran now.

 

Funny since only 0.0000001% of iranians use or used twitter during the revolt.

Maybe its just a publicity stunt, so people start talking about twitter as the future of democracy again...

 

What a bunch of wankers, and that's coming from someone who's half-Iranian.

 

OK, here's the scoop:

Twitter wasn't hacked - someone was able to persuade one of the higher up systems to say twitter.com was somewhere it wasn't.

It's happened hundreds of times before, and it isn't down to Twitter's own network security but a massive issue with the way the internet works.

It's a real shame, as it damages the reputations of big companies (a good example was when the major security firm RSA suffered the same issue and it really damaged their reputation, despite the fact their server's were totally secure: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/02/14/internet_security_firm_rsas_web/ )

In other words: FAAAAAAAAKE!

 

Can you elaborate? DNS cache poisoning or something?

 

This is hilarious xD!

 

Pretty much.

The so called "Iranian Cyber Army" didn't do shit to Twitter.

They messed with the DNS servers upstream causing a partial (but not total) redirect. Some Twitter users never even knew Twitter was down because the DNS they were using wasn't hit.

I understand that the Iranian government is deathly afraid of the free flow of information, but if this is the best they can do it's pretty laughable.

If I were Iranian I'd be embarassed to admit association with a government that hires script kiddies and calls them hackers.

-hl718

 

What DNS-server was it anyway? Like what area got hit?

 

Huh..?
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Iran doesn't have the balls to embargo the USA and prohibit Iranians from doing business with any USA companies. The USA would just buy oil elsewhere. Iran on the other hand would be screwed if it couldn't sell oil to the USA. The same is true of Venezula.

Both desparately need the USA so despite all the bluster, neither one is willing to say "screw off, we don't need you."

-hl718

 

On the other hand, it worked, didn't it? Not in the sense that it was a great technical hacking achievement, but it made major news, and sends the message to non-technical Internet users that Iran is "cracking down" in some vague unspecified sense. And no one's going to cover the follow-up story that the hack wasn't as impressive as it seemed at first glance. Given that PR/media is one of the battlefields - perhaps the most important one - in modern warfare, I'd say that if Iran hired script kiddies they got an excellent return on investment.

 

Major news? It made a few blogs and tech sites.

But it was far from major news or a major accomplishment.

When someone important gets hacked, it'll make news.

When the latest dot.bomb fad has a DNS redirect, the masses couldn't give two shits.

Perhaps inside Iran this is big news, but it the Western world it's good for a few laughs and a little bit of pity. Makes you want to pat them on the head and say "There, there now. I know everyone is laughing at you, but you tried your hardest and gosh darn it, that's all that matters!"

-hl718

 

I can't wait until the middle east is a giant crater....

 

is that the American way GoH?