Posted on 12/01/2010 9:08:55 AM PST by Racehorse
A self-proclaimed "hacktivist" said Tuesday he's the computer expert who knocked rogue Web site WikiLeaks offline for several hours through a distributed denial of service attack.
The hacker, who calls himself The Jester and goes by the name th3j35t3r on Twitter, said he was motivated to take down WikiLeaks for patriotic reasons. He also said his other targets include Web sites used by Al Qaeda and other terrorists groups for recruiting purposes.
"www.wikileaks.org--TANGO DOWN--for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations," the hacker said in a message on Twitter. "PS for me personally WL is a sideshow target. I am more interested in the big jihad recruiting and training sites," he said, according to ABC News.
Speculation about the source of the attack had ranged from the U.S. government, to foreign regimes embarrassed by the information WikiLeaks disclosed to The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and other major newspapers.
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Assange is finding out that what goes around comes around.
He also is big on taking down Jihadi websites.
I knew that there had to be at least one patriotic hacker in this country.
I he’s really doing it, go Jester!
How about going after Media Matters, Apollo Alliance, Center for American Progress, and other Soros sites?
This guy is taking down cheapskates with ease precisely because they are cheapskates ~ or low income spread type folks.
Godspeed Jester! Godspeed!
Soro needs to be neutered by the American people. Go away George should be the new motto!!
Color me extremely sceptical. Which ones?
Some of the guys attacking Lamo, from that in-group, were making the same claim. Pure disinfo.
According to this, The Jester has been raided by the PoPo.
https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9916-Hacker-The-Jester-Reports-Raid-By-Law-Enforcement.html
Assange stated in his Forbes Magazine interview that he will next release leaks on banking practices before and after the bailout. I wouldn’t mind seeing this info since basically we’re paying for the banks’ ethical quagmire and should probably know whose golden parachute those dollars we earned are helping to pad.
Especially since he’s pissed off the Russians. They have a way of making inconvenient people disappear.
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