A website dedicated to naming ICE and Border Patrol employees is coming under a “prolonged and sophisticated” cyber attack after the Daily Beast revealed it planned to make public 4,500 names of federal immigration staff.
The founder of ICE List said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic originating in Russia after the Beast reported that a huge cache of personal IDs had been leaked to the site by an alleged Department of Homeland Security whistleblower.
The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault, which began on Tuesday evening and is still ongoing at the time of publication, saw a huge number of IPs simultaneously access the website of ICE List, a self-styled “accountability initiative.”
This has successfully overloaded the ICE List’s servers and is preventing people from accessing the site. The timing coincided with ICE List founder Dominick Skinner telling the Daily Beast he would make public the first tranche of names in the dataset, which was leaked following the shooting by an ICE agent of mom Renee Nicole Good.
That’s what torrents are for
Make the static dataset available on IPFS and you’ll have node operators pin it on their instance. Good luck taking that down.
I’d be okay with a torrent as well.
Make a torrent and it will be on the internet forever.
Given how small a dataset it is, in addition tona torrent it can also be shared in an ever growing list of Mega links.
That doesn’t seem to be what they want, and they are sending a bunch of flying monkeys after everyone that asks for it.
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The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault,
That’s not was DDOS means: Distributed Denial of Service
…meaning it comes from so many different sources its very hard to block.
AI doesn’t know that.
Ding ding ding
It’s the daily beast, would not be surprised if the article was AI hallucinated based on a few tweets or something
People are getting dumber about computers, not smarter. You heard it here first.
No, I’ve known this for a long time. When I was a kid I was conscripted into doing tech support for my older relatives. Now my generation is doing tech support for the younger generations.
When my generation dies it’ll kick off a post-apocalyptic future where people have to rediscover how all this technology works.
All of us who grew up as computers became mainstream had to learn how to use them and troubleshoot things, we also got to grow up as it was maturing.
These newer generations are handed tablets with apps and that’s it, and all the apps they want to use are focused around tiny attention spans and how to manipulate them.
I agree about people getting dumber about computers, but sadly you’re not the first to say it.
I see it in my IT work everyday. It makes for some good job security, but I wonder what happens when the last of us that know how to work the dark magics shuffle off our mortal coil.
In an ideal world, as they see your knowledge is harder and harder to replace, they’ll start paying more for it, and that will hopefully be encouraging enough to the current workforce to learn the skills.
Then the AI overlords’ takeover will be complete. Dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
Same as with cars. Everyone just wants to press a button and go.
So Russian criminals are helping American GeStaPo fascists in taking over the country? What a coincidence…
Let’s see some email leaks that connect the dots there as well to this attack.
I bet it exists somewhere.
Oh noes. So horrible that there are no other ways this can be disseminated and I am SURE the organizers aren’t looking into those at all.
I guess the more interesting question is… is this putin or is it just a black hat for hire working out of russia?
I guess the more interesting question is… is this putin or is it just a black hat for hire working out of russia?
I have good money on it being a “friend” of Pooty-Poot’s who wants to squash resistance to ICE. Possibly someone who’s in a position of power. Possibly someone who’s a demented rapist felon and a pathological liar.
Does Putin want fascism or civil war in the US?
Trying to get into the mind of a deranged fascist is a futile effort at the best of times.
But my speculation? He understands that trump is a real shit asset. Way too impulsive and he is rapidly reaching the point where even video of him sucking off bill clinton won’t make a difference (and, thus, won’t be a threat). And putin is competing with all the other people pulling trump’s strings who don’t need to get on a plane to intimidate him.
So either way works. The point is to negate the US as a threat (either by turning us into an ally or letting us murder each other) and, as a result, negate NATO as a threat. Because most of NATO aren’t fucking lunatics who put a massive percentage of one of the largest GPDs in the world into a standing military. WE were the army of NATO. And… yeah.
If they were interested in actually distributing this they would have just sent a CSV file of the entire list out and the whole list would be floating around social media already. This is a fucking scam.
I’m no expert, but I can think of a few reasons: maintaining an official signed source, data integrity, and complying with takedown regulations:
Your Responsibilities as a Whistleblower
Media and Public Disclosure
Public disclosure receives the least protection under most laws and carries the highest risk. It may be protected in limited circumstances, such as when:
- You reasonably believe disclosure serves the public interest
- You’ve attempted other channels without success
- There’s immediate danger requiring public warning
Even then, protection is uncertain and depends heavily on specific circumstances and applicable laws.
High risk along with public identification means the leaker probably wants to comply as much as possible to state and federal law. From the article:
Skinner said he planned to publish “the majority” of verifiable names, while carving out exceptions for positions like childcare workers and nurses
Yeah it totally makes sense to make a resource that is totally inaccessible and doesn’t actually exist.
Well, it’s inaccessible because Russian state-sponsored hacking collective is DDoSing the leaker’s website. Why would someone go through the risky process of leaking sensitive federal data that doesn’t actually exist?
I suppose it could be to spook ICE into withdrawal, but I don’t think that’s going to stop them given the tenacity of their extremely broad mandate and excessive deployments.
Or, it could be to goad Russian state actors into a honeypot to uncover their state affiliations, but they are generally insulated from that as a matter of Russian operating procedure.
I don’t see a possible benefit to faking this list. Could you provide an example?
To gather up a list of thousands of leftists who tried to access it without a VPN or TOR?
That’s a great example, and it probably falls under retaliation protections which I would not expect the US government to uphold at this time. So, anyone trying to access this website should definitely use TOR.
However, the fact that a Russian state actor is successfully attempting to limit access is pretty telling that they and the Trump administration don’t want this information leaked. My guess is that they know this information not only exists, but is dangerous to their interests.
I’m sure sending out a list with none of the associated verification information wouldn’t have any weaknesses to manipulation or falsification…
Good point. Making a list that no one can access and probably doesn’t actually exist is much better.
All they needed to do was put out a torrent.
Get ready for a bunch of totally not foreign propaganda bots to explain why that doesn’t make any sense and that somehow YOU are the crazy person for expecting this list to actually exist.
Whoever has this info, if its real is a moron bar none. One torrent and by now it would be everywhere. Instead they create a puff website for it.
ICElist has been there before the leak though.
Putin - Who’s your friend?
Trump - You are, boss. It’s only you.
FYI - I was able to get through to the Icelist wiki page which now has a 403 Forbidden on it. I don’t know who controls the site rn.
I wonder why these pigs wouldn’t want to publish their name if they just got their best job in their life …
