Online terrorism, like death, never takes a holiday. Parler got bounced off AWS servers a few days after the insurrection at the Capitol. They filed some suit against Amazon, the usual. Then they apparently found some sympathetic souls in Russia, not surprisingly. Nikita Krushchev always said he would take us over without firing a single shot.
Parler is back online now by routing 100% of its user traffic through servers located within the Russian Federation.
Raise your hand if you understand the very significant impact this has on the ability to surveil and target insurrectionists who organize on Parler.
— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) January 18, 2021
The Guardian did a story on DDOS-Guard and interviewed one of the owners. Another customer of theirs is the Russian government https://t.co/ixUhYn44cO
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) January 18, 2021
Take a look at The Guardian article. It’s time to play Connect The Dots.
A far-right website that was among the platforms used to organize the deadly violence at the US Capitol has again been forced to find new internet service protection after a shell company owned by two Russians and registered in Scotland cut ties with the platform’s internet host.
The website 8kun, previously known as 8chan, has long been one of the preferred platforms of the far right and followers of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. It was used by rioters ahead of the 6 January attack to mobilize other “patriots” to “help storm the Capitol”, with some on the message board debating which politicians to kill once they got inside.
In the aftermath of the riot, users continued to post content fomenting violence, including maps of government buildings to target and combat techniques for a proposed civil war.
It wasn’t the first time the platform had been linked to acts of violence. Its predecessor site, 8chan, was linked to a series of white nationalist terrorist attacks, including the massacres in Christchurch, New Zealand, and El Paso, Texas.
8kun has faced significant hurdles to remain online since at least 2019, when the El Paso attack occurred. All websites are kept online by a network of services including web hosts and domain name registrars. 8kun has had a loyal internet provider in the Washington state-based VanwaTech, whose CEO has repeatedly defended its connections to the hate site in the name of freedom of speech.
The crazies needed somewhere to go and who was there with an outstretched hand but Mother Russia. Trump should feel quite comfortable, God knows.
How long is it since the ‘I’d rather be Russian than Democrat’ T-shirts were being worn?
By these ‘Patriots’?
Time to deport those t-shirt wearers to Siberia!
And all of the RWNJs too!!
November, maybe?
I’m not totally clear on the aspect of our people keeping tabs on these guys. It seems the Russian hosting will make that harder, correct?
Time for Space Command and Cyber Command to attack. Nicely and quietly but cyber-ly ( added hyphen and still didn’t like).
Like I answered on Twitter: RUSSIAN patriots. See, how easy that was!
Can I just point out that in the article on this site where Ursula asked how they get back online, I said that Russia would be more than happy to host them. I’m not saying that was a brilliant prediction…I’m saying that the corruption in our era is predictable.
I still say deregister their DNS name. Then no matter who hosts them, the mouth-breathers can only find them by knowing their IP address.
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