To the layman

[MolonLabe]

For ppl like me who have no idea how or why to hack etc what is the point of someone hacking the files? What do they gain? Or is it just to troll etc

[0DARK30]

Well the ransomware install means they expected to get money in return for the data that was vacated. Or they were just looking for any reason to take the site down and this looks like as good a reason as any.

[NDHoJo]

They are jealous we have a Nails.

[Jen]

Based on the text file they left behind, they want to gain about $10,000.. Basically they're claiming they are holding our data hostage and that's the ransom, hence ransomware.

[bill3542]

Speak of the devil... is he floating around here somewhere?

[History]

I haven't seen Trollo around in awhile. If he's just put a down payment on a new super car we know who did it.

[nalioth]

For ppl like me who have no idea how or why to hack etc what is the point of someone hacking the files? What do they gain? Or is it just to troll etc

Troll primarily, with the potential side benefit of getting a "ransom payment" from dumb webmasters

[AK-Goose]

They do realize we have guns, right? We'll get our supersluth SteveTA right on their trail and send in Greek when we get an address.
Jeff

[v guy]

This shit has been going on for a while and "he" attacked me for some time over the last 4 years. I am pissed.
I suspect that this is not the first time the board has had problems from this hacker.

I contend that it is a board member who has taken his skill set at hacking, to a new level, out of rage and direction from **&%$**

This is censorship. He will not play nice.
He intends to finish this board once and for all. $10,000 is just a smoke screen; all he wants is an end to the board and its "insults".

I contend that he has been responsible for months, for removing members by hacking them, and getting them to finally give up coming here. Simple Denial of Service shit, and such, back then. We will never know how many had trouble logging in over the last 4 years.

He now has the capability of getting into a "moderator" type of function, (unauthorized) and has gone so far as to hack modems and routers, changing your settings. He used to deliver hundreds of pages of gibberish into my history and cookies. He was simply practicing for this attack to do his dirt.
ONLY AFTER I WOULD VISIT THIS SITE WOULD I GET FILLED UP WITH 2000 PAGES OF COOKIES AND HISTORY, AND I CLEAN IT OUT DAILY OR MORE OFTEN. IT WAS ONLY THIS SITE AND MANY WOULD ATTEST TO THIS FACT IF THEY COULD.

He is a son of a bitch. Something must have set him off yesterday, exposing that he is a maniac ideologue and a fool of the first waters. Cowards always hit from the shadows on defenseless unarmed people and places; and he is a dog shit eating dog.

[torquemada055]

So V, tell us how you really feel.....and what can we as members do to try to protect ourselves against this sort of thing?

[El Trollo Mejor]

I haven't seen Trollo around in awhile. If he's just put a down payment on a new super car we know who did it.

Pinche guey, now they all know.

[Claymore]

It was the commies, OP. I guarantee it.

Probably some punk like Kalashnicommie tipped them off

[That One Guy]

Of course it happened on the day that Sig came back after a six month ban.

[ddbtoth]

This shit has been going on for a while and "he" attacked me for some time over the last 4 years. I am pissed.
I suspect that this is not the first time the board has had problems from this hacker.

I contend that it is a board member who has taken his skill set at hacking, to a new level, out of rage and direction from **&%$**

This is censorship. He will not play nice.
He intends to finish this board once and for all. $10,000 is just a smoke screen; all he wants is an end to the board and its "insults".

I contend that he has been responsible for months, for removing members by hacking them, and getting them to finally give up coming here. Simple Denial of Service shit, and such, back then. We will never know how many had trouble logging in over the last 4 years.

He now has the capability of getting into a "moderator" type of function, (unauthorized) and has gone so far as to hack modems and routers, changing your settings. He used to deliver hundreds of pages of gibberish into my history and cookies. He was simply practicing for this attack to do his dirt.
ONLY AFTER I WOULD VISIT THIS SITE WOULD I GET FILLED UP WITH 2000 PAGES OF COOKIES AND HISTORY, AND I CLEAN IT OUT DAILY OR MORE OFTEN. IT WAS ONLY THIS SITE AND MANY WOULD ATTEST TO THIS FACT IF THEY COULD.

He is a son of a bitch. Something must have set him off yesterday, exposing that he is a maniac ideologue and a fool of the first waters. Cowards always hit from the shadows on defenseless unarmed people and places; and he is a dog shit eating dog.

Who do you suspect?

[v guy]

It was a member who has a history of hacking the files after negative comments have been made about Islam.

[ddbtoth]

Man, that’s all I got about opinions about Muslims. Never understood the left’s love of them. Guilt I guess.

[SethCurry]

I think you should not condemn people without knowing them, even the Yakuza guys can be good, and Islamists generally preach forgiveness.

[Badzero]

I think you should not condemn people without knowing them, even the Yakuza guys can be good, and Islamists generally preach forgiveness.

Only when they are sure they don’t have the upper hand.

[the gman]

I think you should not condemn people without knowing them, even the Yakuza guys can be good, and Islamists generally preach forgiveness.

Such naivete! We are constantly told the so called "radical" Muslims are the minority and the "moderate" Muslims are good, peaceful and don't want trouble. I have lived in Muslim countries and while some of the latter is partially true, the radicals still have the tacit support of the moderates because they all believe in the same thing which is that Islam is superior to any other religion and unbelievers have to convert. If you don't convert, the radicals want you dead and the moderates want you as 2nd class citizens at best, slaves at worst.

[trypcil]

$10,000 is not much - but timing is everything. The election is approaching and I can see that the FF & the akfiles are both realms of Free thought and discourse - that is both the enemy of the left, and of certain other factions. It is entirely possible that the "hack" was simply an "inhibitor", at an election time, in a time like no other! Might have some connection to 'actors' portrayed in the "Millie" thread, or just a wild conspiracy and nothing more! There are tho', no coincidences!:-)