iPad Hacker and “Troll” Weev Is Now a Straight-Up White Supremacist

October 08 Comments Off on iPad Hacker and “Troll” Weev Is Now a Straight-Up White Supremacist Category: Feed, Tumblr

iPad Hacker and “Troll” Weev Is Now a Straight-Up White Supremacist:

Four years ago, Andrew “Weev” Aurenheimer poked an easy hole in Apple’s iPad security, exposed the information of 114,000 users, and embarrassed both that company and AT&T. He spent a year in prison before his sentence was tossed out, becoming a hacker hero in the process—and also, apparently, a neo-Nazi.

PS: The line from Trolololol lolz racism and actual racism is non-existent. Surprise!

Meetup struggles under huge DDoS attack.

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Meetup struggles under huge DDoS attack.:

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No doubt, this has been a tough weekend for Meetup. Since Thursday, we faced a massive attack on our servers — a DDoS attack, which is a barrage of traffic intended to make service unavailable. We’ve had many hours of downtime over several days, a first for us in 12 years of growing the…

This is an attack on everyone who believes that people are powerful together.