Posted on 09/15/2008 2:18:03 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
It is true that Ekhlaas has a banner saying that they were going to broadcast something from Zawahiri about the seventh anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks but this may have been the same video that was broadcast by Al Jazeera on 9/10/2008 and because Al Jazeera only broadast portions of the tape I believe that Ekhlaas wanted to broadcast the whole tape.
I will keep you updated.
I believe that it is not a good idea to involve these two good guys, Weisburd and Dr. Rusty in a hacking job that they did not do. First and foremost it is illegal to hack websites even if they belong to terrorists because the hackers are not only attacking the terrorist website but the ISP that hosts it. The only legal way to shut down a terrorist website is to ask the ISP that hosts it to shut it down and this has been the only tactic that have been used by terrorist forums hunters including myself, Dr. Rusty, Aaron Weisburd and many others.
No, Ekhlaas terrorist forum has been down since 9/11/2008 with no backup. However Al Qaeda has other terrorist forums such as Al Hesbah which the second largest terrorist forum. Ekhlaas is the largest terrorist forum on the internet with over 57,000 members. Also the two other main Al Qaeda terrorist forum Al Firdaws and Al-Boraq have been down for weeks and both were hosted by the same Malaysian ISP that hosted Ekhlaas, the ISP is called PIRADIUS.
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I just learned from looking at another terrorist forum that Ekhlaas terrorist forum is sort of back up. Those are the two new links that they posted http://www.e-kl-s.com/ and http://www.e-kl-s.net/. However you will get the main page but then the forum goes to "data base error". Both URL have the same IP address 124.217.231.218. These URL are also hosted by the Malaysian ISP called PIRADIUS.
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I have a very soft spot for dogooder hackers. :)
Thanks for your insight.
“Why would anyone on our side give names out like that?”
Subversive, fifth-column types or just an idiot.
Why aren’t these guys on US Government payrolls?
Denial of communications to the enemy ~command and control~ is good military thinking. Support or oppose the war, makes no difference. This is still good thinking, and a needed part of an overall military strategy.
They should get some compensation for this kind of work, and not have to rely on PayPal donations.
After all, they’re doing a service to the US government.
Couple of things in play there.
Hackers are a competitive lot. This is not a government effort...even though IMO, it should be...at least these guys should get compensated for good work.
Publishing of names serves as a recruitment tool for other hackers to "join in the fun".
Think about it: Al Qaeda command and control taken out. Kinda hard to coordinate activities without commo, eh?
i doubt that these people are really concerned for their safety. This conclusion is drawn from the comments on the link posted in this thread. Apparently some of them are looking forward to having these islamawackos take exception, and appear to be eager to make them become martyrs for allah should they try and do anything about it.
They're already well-known for fighting Al Qaeda online. Besides, if Al Qaeda wants to go after a guy really named Rusty Shackleford they're going to have to go to cartoon land, King of the Hill to be precise.
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