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It's purely coincidental and to their luck that they were able to find the hosting provider, and that the provider happened to host so many valuable targets. The exploit isn't at all special.

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Yes, it's coincidental but it's a fun story. Sadly, the facts are not really available to confirm :)

Regardless, I don't know why the freedom hosts lasted so damn long.

I think in that sense, this is more of a social engineering hack. Everyone trusted a common host. You can say the trust was not manipulated into existence by an adversary, but trust was involved, in hindsight.

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