Hacker Disrupts New Zealand Election Campaign 75
An anonymous reader writes New Zealand is facing its weirdest election ever with a hacker calling himself "Rawshark" progressively dumping emails hacked from a controversial blogger. This weekend, revelations forced the resignation of one Government minister and nobody knows what will drop next. Emails revealed that the blogger, called "Whale Oil", was in contact with both a government minister in charge of New Zealand's white collar crime investigations unit and with a PR man acting for a founder of a failed finance company then under investigation.
Way to go (Score:5, Informative)
We need alot of more this kind of hackers.
They keep tabs on us, invade our privacy, no reason not to do the same to them.
Hack the planet!
Re: Way to go (Score:3)
The role of the Patriot is to protect its country from its government.
Way to go!
Re: Way to go (Score:5, Insightful)
It's great to love your country and do things that show that love.
I find that "showing love to a country" is a stupid thing to do...
A country is an inanimate concept, it's not even a thing. It can't (and most definitely doesn't) love you back.
Do you also show your love to a potato? What makes a country different than a potato or, say, a chair?
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It's where all your stuff is.
Re: Way to go (Score:2)
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A war is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.
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We are not completely sure what kind of hacker this is. Revealing the truth selectively could create an unfair situation, which is not what you want for an election.
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Good to see things being stirred up, but I'm concerned the hacker is releasing only what will achieve his/her agenda rather than the whole truth.
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We need alot of more this kind of hackers.
They keep tabs on us, invade our privacy, no reason not to do the same to them.
Hack the planet!
I am from New Zealand and I agree. However I do have an issue as to how it is done.
Unlike Snowden or Wikileaks it is exceedingly obvious that it (and I hate saying this because it is such a cliché) it is some sort of left wing conspiracy. We are only getting half of the story and the releases go to great pains to not damage the left wing.
If everything was released it would have more credibility (with me at least).
Voip SMS Fixed (Score:2, Interesting)
The Whale Oil blogger was also involved in revealing a sex scandal involving the PM trying to remove a Mayor. Threatening text messages where sent and the NZ Herald newspaper put out a public appeal to unearth the sender. It turns out that the Caller ID was one of the free international Voip SMS local forwarding numbers that had for years been diverted by the local Telecom in their attempt to frustrate its users. When this Voip SMS connection was made known to the newspaper, details of how to crack the exch
"Rawshark"... (Score:4, Insightful)
...sounds like a reference to that exact accented pronunciation of Rorschach's name in Watchmen (the original graphic novel, when Veidt calls the police to tip them off).
That can't be a coincidence.
RE: "Rawshark"... (Score:1)
So... you either didn't read TFA or you're quoting in here without mentioning it to make yourself sound smart. Which is it?
Rawsharking up the wrong tree (Score:2)
This is clearly a specialist sushi afficionado and not a vigilante emulator.
Rawshark - Dump and analyze raw libpcap data (Score:1)
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His full name is Whale Oil Beef Hooked (Score:2, Interesting)
But you have to pronounce it really fast
God this is useless. (Score:1)
You know what? Fuck you Slashdot.
You used to work just fine, but now I have to try and post something three or four or five times before I get this shit:
I'm sick of it. You keep referring me to beta when I go to stories, ignoring the nobeta=1 part of the address, and now this shit.
Sick to death of this complete fucking incomptence.
feeding the whale (Score:4, Informative)
Firstly there was the book "Dirty Politics" by Nicky Hager which contained the allegations backed up now by selective releases by whaledump :D (Theres an ebook on a certain nautical site i wont mention ;)
The National government have been feeding sensitive info to this vitriolic blogger called Cameron "WhaleOil" Slater (WO) and using him to do their dirty work.
There has been information "released" to WO under freedom of information, that had been denied other more legitimate journalists so that WO could launch his attack, there is evidence he was instructed as to which information to specifically request and the request was processed in an extremely short time.
This is what has brought down our (Ex) Minister for Justice (ROFL) Judith Collins. The filth washes right to the Prime Minister John Keys "Office" and as an ex corporate banker involved in the Derivatives trade there are quite a few people that are not surprised, only elated that the filth gets shown before our election and not after.
Assange to help Kim Dotcom drop bombshell on PM (Score:5, Interesting)
As if Prime Minister John Key does not have enough problems, Kim Dotcom has revealed that he will drop a bombshell on him. He is warning that something big will come out on September 15, just five days from the election. He says WikiLeaks founder and fugitive Julian Assange, who's holed up in Ecuador's London embassy, is set to take part in a pre-election attack on John Key. The addition of Mr Assange confirms the event will be about New Zealand's spying.
http://tvnz.co.nz/vote-2014-ne... [tvnz.co.nz]
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Stop giving Kim 'Dotcom' attention. He is a crook and not the face we want any movement to have.
Hello Mr. Government worker. Guess what? Kim Dotcom is less of a criminal then you and the rest of you US government bitches. Start obeying our fucking constitution again before we have to kill you all and start over.
Alliteration fail :( (Score:5, Funny)
for a founder of a failed finance company
So close! The correct word to use here was "firm."
Re:Alliteration fail :( (Score:5, Informative)
for a founder of a failed finance company then under investigation
"for a founder of a failed finance firm then facing..." Can't make "investigation" work. Although that "V" might be close enough already. "Official fact-finding"? Doesn't really carry the same meaning.
[Aside: The headline is misleading. It implies that a hack somehow interfered directly with the election mechanism. The hacker revealed corruption, it's the corruption which will disrupt the election chances of one of the major parties. "Hacked revelations threaten NZ National Party re-election bid". It's not like the hacker sabotaged a party's campaign site, or got into the ballot-printing or e-voting system. The difference between someone poisoning your company's products and someone revealing the poison your company puts in their products. In one case, they are the cause of the disruption, in the other they are just the messenger, you are the cause.]
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... facing future formal financial findings (pending investigation)
Good! (Score:1)
If you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be worried, right? You fucking cocksuckers. I hope these hacker dudes take down more of these arrogant parasites. Come to Quebec my friends! We need a MAJOR cleanup, the "leadership class" here is off the rails.
Naive New Zealand (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm a NZer, though I live in London now. When I lived in Auckland, an American exchange student once described NZ as the country that is like America was before everyone got fucked over by someone else. It is so painfully is true. Our naive innocence is now being exploited by a bunch of international con artists (dotcom and john key) and we are just being take for a joy ride. Give us another five years of this and we'll all become a bunch of suspicious unfriendly people like the rest of the world.
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"Hacked emails appear to show Hotchin secretly paid bloggers Cameron Slater and Cathy Odgers to write attack posts undermining the Serious Fraud Office, its director Adam Feeley"
The blogger takes money to tell only one side of the story in the first place, you say the hacker has is ideologically inclined to tell only the the other ... how is this not slightly balanced at least?
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The blogger takes money to tell only one side of the story in the first place
Money has not been mentioned and on top of that how do you know? What is fairly obvious is that the releases don't not mention the other side at all. To me it seems that the releases are from only one side, and that person has an ax to grind.
A full release of what is available would be the solution.... but it may damage the left wing as well and it seems that whoever it is does not want that. Until then it just looks like a left wing conspiracy.
Re:Left wing hitjob (Score:5, Interesting)
Nice way of trying to turn this around. What this has done is expose how these National politicians have gone beyond the normal politics in New Zealand to actually support muck raking and character assasination. It is the kind of politics New Zealanders hate. You see while it isn't perfect we still have a functional democracy, unlike the United States. This 'attack' would have had no impact if the Government had not done anything wrong, but clearly they have. There is now clear evidence of a corporation buying off favour to slander a senior investigator with the cooperation of a senior Minister. The senior Minister appears to have oiled the wheels to get previously restricted information released under the Official Information Act in order to harm a political opponent. Reminds me of the saying - live by the sword, die by the sword.