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Anonymous says it's going to "shut the Internet down" this Saturday in protest

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Izick

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UPDATE 1: It's Saturday and the Internet is still working.

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OP:

Anonymous said:
"The greatest enemy of freedom is a happy slave."

To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved
bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of
sheer sadistic fun, On March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down.

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In order to shut the Internet down, one thing is to be done. Down the
13 root DNS servers of the Internet. Those servers are as follow:

A 198.41.0.4
B 192.228.79.201
C 192.33.4.12
D 128.8.10.90
E 192.203.230.10
F 192.5.5.241
G 192.112.36.4
H 128.63.2.53
I 192.36.148.17
J 192.58.128.30
K 193.0.14.129
L 199.7.83.42
M 202.12.27.33

By cutting these off the Internet, nobody will be able to perform a
domain name look-up, thus, disabling the HTTP Internet, which is,
after all, the most widely used function of the Web. Anybody entering
"http://www.google.com" or ANY other url, will get an error page,
thus, they will think the Internet is down, which is, close enough.
Remember, this is a protest, we are not trying to 'kill' the Internet,
we are only temporarily shutting it down where it hurts the most.

While some ISPs uses DNS caching, most are configured to use a low
expire time for the cache, thus not being a valid failover solution
in the case the root servers are down. It is mostly used for speed,
not redundancy.

We have compiled a Reflective DNS Amplification DDoS tool to be used for
this attack. It is based on AntiSec's DHN, contains a few bugfix, a
different dns list/target support and is a bit stripped down for speed.

The principle is simple; a flaw that uses forged UDP packets is to be
used to trigger a rush of DNS queries all redirected and reflected to
those 13 IPs. The flaw is as follow; since the UDP protocol allows it,
we can change the source IP of the sender to our target, thus spoofing
the source of the DNS query.

The DNS server will then respond to that query by sending the answer to
the spoofed IP. Since the answer is always bigger than the query, the
DNS answers will then flood the target ip. It is called an amplified
because we can use small packets to generate large traffic. It is called
reflective because we will not send the queries to the root name servers,
instead, we will use a list of known vulnerable DNS servers which will
attack the root servers for us.

DDoS request ---> [Vulnerable DNS Server ] <---> Normal client requests
\
| ( Spoofed UDP requests
| will redirect the answers
| to the root name server )
|
[ 13 root servers ] * BAM

Since the attack will be using static IP addresses, it will not rely
on name server resolution, thus enabling us to keep the attack up even
while the Internet is down. The very fact that nobody will be able to
make new requests to use the Internet will slow down those who will try
to stop the attack. It may only lasts one hour, maybe more, maybe even
a few days. No matter what, it will be global. It will be known.

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download link in #opGlobalBlackout
The tool is named "ramp" and stands for Reflective Amplification. It is
located in the \ramp\ folder.

----------> Windows users

In order to run "ramp", you will need to download and install these two
applications;

WINPCAP DRIVER - www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm
TOR - www.torproject.org/dist/vidalia-bundles/

The Winpcap driver is a standard library and the TOR client is used as
a proxy client for using the TOR network.

It is also recommended to use a VPN, feel free to choose your own flavor of this.

To launch the tool, just execute "\ramp\launch.bat" and wait. The attack
will start by itself.

----------> Linux users

The "ramp" linux client is located under the \ramp\linux\ folder and
needs a working installation of python and scapy.

Read more: www.disclose.tv/forum/on-march-31-anonymous-will-shut-the-internet-down-t67878.html#ixzz1modrC1Jn

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."
Benjamin Franklin

We know you won't listen. We know you won't change. We know it's because
you don't want to. We know it's because you like it how it is. You bullied
us into your delusion. We have seen you brutalize harmless old womans who were
protesting for peace. We do not forget because we know you will only use that
to start again. We know your true face. We know you will never stop. Neither
are we. We know.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
You know who you are, Expect us.
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Deleted member 81567

Unconfirmed Member
Anonymous should give up and focus on a new hobby. Scrabble.
 
L

lunarworks

Member
Good luck with that.

Edit: If they manage to do it, I will applaud. But there's a 99.99999999% chance they won't do it.
 
N

noire

Unconfirmed Member
If you really wanted to fuck with wall st, you'd do it on a day that markets were open.
 
S

Syph Medwes

Member
Yeah, like this is actually gonna happen.
And even if it did, there are other things I can do to pass the time.
like go on the internet on my ipod...shit wait
 
M

mollipen

Member
If they can do it, cool. I have no problem with the internet being down for a bit.

Of course, I always wonder how/if things like this would backfire, in terms of government response. I keep feeling like these acts will make governments clamp down more, not less.
 
T

Tamanon

Banned
Yeah, because nobody's tried to take down the DNS servers before. Good luck kids.

And still protesting SOPA? Really?
 
S

SMT

this show is not Breaking Bad why is it not Breaking Bad? it should be Breaking Bad dammit Breaking Bad
If they do it, can we use this as an excuse to postpone our exams and thesis submissions?
 
E

elsk

Banned
So they're trying to make those people feel bad about themselves by taking down the internet?
Those people are the ones happy by making wars that kill thousands of people, make poor people even poorer and let them starving to die, etc.

Yes, taking down the internet is sure making them feel bad!
 
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abusori

Member
Alright, get your hosts files ready people!
In the rare case that they do succeed, don't you wanna be on gaf making fun of all the peasants who can't use the internet? I do.


Also, I lost it at "old womans"
 
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iammeiam

Member
Do they even understand how badly they would fuck up the entire world if they pulled off actually destroying everyone's DNS resolution?

Credit card processing for a large number of businesses would break, thereby preventing people from doing shit like buying groceries. All kinds of good stuff.

This is not an FU to Wall Street, this is an FU to, like, everyone.
 
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Stet

Banned
Considering the amount of traffic that gets routed their way, wouldn't it be totally impossible for a group to DDOS the root servers?
 
F

Future PhaZe

Member
Wonder why there is so much hate.

Lets be honest, if they can actually take the entire internet down for even 5 minutes it'll be one of the greatest accomplishments ever.
 
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abusori

Member
Stet said:
Considering the amount of traffic that gets routed their way, wouldn't it be totally impossible for a group to DDOS the root servers?
Click to expand...

It certainly seems that way. Maybe they've got some info we don't, but it's unlikely for them to succeed even for a short time.
 
T

toxicgonzo

Taxes?! Isn't this the line for Metallica?
Unlikely, but let's say anonymous succeeds and brings down the internet.

You know what lawmakers will say? "See? We need harsher internet laws!"
 
S

SMT

this show is not Breaking Bad why is it not Breaking Bad? it should be Breaking Bad dammit Breaking Bad
echoshifting said:
If you're a savvy enough student you could pull this off regardless of the extent of their success
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Yeah, I know, I just want to see if we can get an extension so I don't have to get sources and download lecture slides, but there's still a chance the school will pull the 'you had this long' speech paired with 'back in my day, there wasn't no intranets!'. I am also using the books, but still, I may need to search the library databases of the whole city in order to locate the books faster.

Guess I'll just have to advance in my academics earlier than intended.
 
Biff

Biff

Member
I wish I knew more about the inner workings of the 13 DNS servers to comment on the plausibility of this... But I'm guessing there is a flaw in their logic that will render this ineffective.

You have to think that organized crime would have discovered this long ago if true. Not some hackers who hate Facebook and post silly Youtube videos.
 
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