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Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik

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'Hackers on Estradiol' lmao

Good work? I don't agree with Epik on most things but exposing security vulnerabilities is always good. Then again, you could do it in a less harmful way for sure.

I agree with the sentmient of doxxing neo-nazis, but leaking the data of millions of innocents who just use Epik as their regular DNS provider seems unnecessary

Anonymous are on the right side of history, unlike the 'Right'.

What are some secure alternatives for web hosting

IPFS over Tor.

Get your own servers. Sometimes it feels like people have forgotten how much traffic a medium performant computer can deal with. You often dont need a full cloud or a bunch of vms and serverless functions etc etc to run most services.

Anyone dove into the dataset?

These “hacktivists” are simply left-wing criminals that need to be brought to justice by three-letter agencies. Just like we have seen with the aggressive, militant actions of decentralized anonymous groups (antifa, youth collectives, etc) in the physical world, these criminals don’t want to allow any speech or thought that disagrees with their own. Hence their attacks on Parler, Epik, and so on. Let’s not try to paint their actions in some virtuous paint of activism. These criminals have no place in a lawful society that holds liberal values.

They will never be brought to justice, since they are another arm of the state. These groups are a way of doing what the powers that be want to be done while having some plausible deniability.

These groups are deliberately allowed to do this.

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

The super incompetent state is also the super powered villain operating in the dark. That way you're always right with your conspiracy delusions.

You can be very incompetent and also be very powerful. It's quite easy when you have the powers of the state.

I don't agree with the comment you were replying to either, it's just that I don't really find this argument convincing.

You don't have to find it convincing; it's merely an observation on the way fascists communicate with each other.

https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for...

>8. The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Well, for fascists it's often true because they choose enemies that are actually simply weak (as having shadowy enemies that can be portrayed as both weak and strong is necessary for fascism). The state is not weak at all, and it is indeed often incompetent. I think your argument is simply overfitting.

The funniest part is that Epik's sites host literal terrorist content.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer#Content_and_...

How can a web hosting service be politically inclined? That's just bonkers to me. Just because they host alt-right content? What's next? A restaurant that is labelled alt-right because some alt-right person once ate there?

They're pretty outspoken about it. No need to defend them on a point they freely admit to.

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