Exclusive interview with three individuals who hacked Gawker

http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/14/an-interview-with-gnosis-the-group-behind-the-gawker-hacking/

by jonchui • 16 years ago

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ewams• 16 years ago

Is TNW a serious news source or a spoof? This seems rather too easily generated from just the information that was in the README file.

ericflo• 16 years ago

It's a serious news source.

jonchui• 16 years ago

I just found it interesting that after reading plenty of "news sources" on the subject, I didn't get one authoritative post on HOW the hackers did it and WHY. The readme helped out but to hear directly from the hackers was quite informative. This post did. Then again, now that you bring it up, I'm not sure there's any way we can know if it's "authoritative" or not.

m4tt• 16 years ago

I interviewed Gnosis, they wouldn't go into any specific detail as to how they gained entry.

From what I have found out, it looks like they used a vulnerability found within a three year old Minify script that hadn't been upgraded. This gave them access to other parts of the server:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-14/ga...

Don't quote me on that however.

marknutter• 16 years ago

These guys are massive assholes. They disrupted a lot of people's lives for no good reason.

checker659• 16 years ago

Just a lame speculation:

I don't see anyone talking about this, but is there any chance these people work for Apple? I mean, given the whole iPhone 4 and Gawker incident, there is a reason Apple would want to humiliate the whole company.

What do you think?

brisance• 16 years ago

Steve and his people are too busy inventing the next insanely great gadget and don't have time for petty things like revenge.

Exclusive interview with three individuals who hacked Gawker

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