how the time top 100 poll was hacked

[bjaming]

http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15...recision-hack/

I don't think this has been posted yet, if it has, sorry :-)

interesting the 'power' that particular site has, isn't it?

[g3k_]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

MARBLECAKE, ALSO THE GAME.

For those of you that don't know Marblecake are the folks who really pull the strings behind Anonymous.

Also, 4chan isn't alone.... the power is across the *chans. I recommend you dive into it for a while and see how you come out the other end :) Its all really interesting the way this sub-society has evolved and how quickly it moves. Time won't admit it, but they got owned.

[bascule]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

Heh, came here to post just that... beaten to the punch.

Go Time... your technical incompetence is astounding.

[g3k_]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

Wired has an article about it:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/200...hed-over-time/

Wired doesn't like Anon :P

[bjaming]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

yeah I know about the chans, some pretty freaky wierdos on some of them, makes me scared for the internet lol

[Fatal Grace]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

yeah I know about the chans, some pretty freaky wierdos on some of them, makes me scared for the internet lol

If you think the chans are bad, don't get lost in "onion-land" freaky isn't even a word used to describe some of the things/people you find there.

[g3k_]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

I'm from /b/ :'(

[bjaming]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

lol /b/tard :-)

[g3k_]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

lol /b/tard :-)

Formerly. I couldn't say I was from /b/ if I still considered myself a /b/tard, that breaks rules one and two. I'd be from Ebaum's World :P

But back on topic:

So Anonymous mobilized and successfully took on something with crowdsouring once "hacking" was out of the way. What do you guys think about the sophistication of their tools and how easily accessible they were to so many people? They even made a tool that queued up 4 votes at a time, so that people can vote and use the captcha's manually, but in a queued system. lol. I'd love to give a talk at Defcon about Anonymous, but I'm too much of a noob and a horrible speaker.

[bjaming]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

I think the 'good' parts about the hacks that anon comes up with is the simplicity of them, there's really nothing to overly complex or really technically interesting about the hacks they perform, the myspace page rapes, this time poll, the defacing of the (lol) scientology website. I'd randomly guess that 90% of them are not really hackers with technical abilities, more akin to a goon squad or something along those lines. I'm sure there are highly skilled people there but I doubt they post much and let the masses hide them.*


*-these views in no way represent the views of defcon.org, any of the organizers of defcon or their affiliates

[YenTheFirst]

Re: how the time top 100 poll was hacked

I think what's interesting/scary/funny is that the whole thing seems to be not centrally organized.
They almost decide as a group to do something, and you have 100 people willing to sit and type in captcha's just to rig an online poll.

Another interesting thought:
Sure, moot didn't win the *real* popular vote. Then again, people merely deciding he should win motivated them so much, that they went through the effort to rig the poll. In some way, then, moot, or at least the idea of moot, is the most influential in that list. No other candidate inspired followers to go to such lengths.