Now THIS Is Tikun Olam
UPDATE 9/9/12: The full, hilariously stupid, truth has been exclusively revealed in this Israellycool post!
Anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein has been having website difficulties recently (e-webtile dysfunction if you will), and now it looks like he repented in time for Rosh Hashana someone has hacked his page.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/
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At first, I thought his domain had expired and someone else snapped it up, but according to El Doucherino himself:
My site appears to have been hacked. I am trying to get 2 the bottom of it with some expert technical help.
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) September 7, 2012
Perhaps his “anonymous source” knows who’s behind it.
No doubt the Mossad or a “hasbarita.”
Update: He’s lost at least one fan:
Salma from Palestine says:
September 7, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I love your site Richard but i will NEVER come back after seeing this filth. I always knew you were a hoax!
About the Author
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: Aussie Dave
Love it!!!!! That KAPO POS is probably pissing himself.
I’m one those people who Kapostein has banned from his website as a reader (I simply access his website from my smartphone, which isn’t banned.) The reason is because I called that pencil-necked POS “Axis of Evil Silverstein,” which is a perfect description of him. So when I saw this redirect this morning, I thought Silverstein was up to his usual pinko commie-liberal anti-Semitic tricks.
I now realize the site’s been hacked. In general I despise hackers, but in this case: Nice work, guys.
Nice workaround for the ban, I dog him out on twitter and he gets all defensive there too,lol what a loser
He can keep me from posting if he wants, but he doessn’t have the right to ban me from reading his drivel any more than the NY Times can ban me from buying the newspaper.
Tikun Olam isn’t password protected, and there’s no paywall. That means it’s open to the public, including Hasbaristas like myself.
In one of his recent posts, Little Dickie (no pun intended) claimed he was moving to a new server which will increase his costs five-fold and appealed to his loyal readers to keep the donations (which, apparently, have been thin of the ground lately, and no wonder) rolling in. If not, he might be obliged to limit the right to read his “pearls of wisdom” to paying subscribers. He does not want to do this, he claims (“I don’t want to create a subscription fee to access this site.”) Of course he doesn’t – because, if he does, the only people who bother to read his drivel will be the people who firmly believe in it anyway – and he’ll no longer be able to convince himself – or anyone else – that he’s doing “important work”. That’s if he does actually believe it. In this same post, he admits to finding it difficult to interest the Mainstream Media in the stories (and that’s all they are) he originates (ie. invents).Little Dickie has made Israel-bashing his life’s work and expects other people to pay so that he can sit on his arse in the comfort of his own apartment and get on with it.
As much as I don’t like Richard Silverstein’s website, I like the idea of hacking it even less. What if someone did the same thing to my beloved IsraellyCool? I would not be a happy camper.
I am also not a fan of hacking if truth be told.
It is fairly easy to protect against it. I dont know exactly how, but I know it is fairly easy. DDOSing is another issue, but that you can just pay your host or pay a different host to prevent.
Maybe in the spirit of this month of Elul, Silverstein did Teshuva!
I think he had been “turned” or just got wiser with a age .
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What else ?
Get set for Dickie’s wild accusations that it was the Mossad/Aussie Dave/CIA/Seattle Jewish Federation/AIPAC/Neocon conspiracy that did this to him.
The little cyber-rat has already started in with his idle threats. I’ll sure he’ll do as good a job exposing this “criminal” as he did at exposing AussieDave. And you know what, when he finally did get AussieDave right nobody gave a phlying phuck. Moreover, although I’m opposed to hacking on general principles, Sliverschwantz more than deserved it. He censors those who disagree with him, such as me. I can’t even read his phucking blog, but I do it anyway. What goes around comes around, Kapostein.
**In this space, I’ve written often about Israeli cyberwar attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities and personnel. Now, I have a story to tell about Israel’s cyberwar activists writ small. Yesterday, this site was attacked by an Israeli hacker. He hijacked the site’s main page and displayed pro-Israel slogans there. He also disrupted access to the site so that it was largely down for most visitors.
As far as this individual is concerned, it was all a good bit of hacking fun. When it’s over you move on to your next prank. Well, not so fast. What this fellow didn’t bargain for is that my work on Israel’s cyberwar capabilities brought me into contact with the good folks as Kaspersky Labs, who’ve identified most of the malware Israel’s Unit 8200 created in its war on Iran.
When I reported this intrusion, their engineers went to work ferreting out the culprit. They even wrote a nine-page report that identified the hacker by name, his IP and e-mail addresses, his child, his ethnic background, his social media accounts. Further research by others uncovered his home address, phone number and employer.
What I don’t know is why someone would risk all that for a few cyber-kicks. This individual is an example for the rampant nihilism of Israeli cyberwarfare strategy. There is no consideration of repercussions to either victim or perpetrator. The latter appears to think there will be none. But in this case there will. There will be a price to pay for this individual, though he acted as if there would not be. Similarly, Israel will pay a price for its misdeeds though it acts as if what it does comes at no cost.
There is a war going on. A war of words and of cyberterror. A war of ideas and demagoguery. A war between the forces of Israeli triumphalism and democracy. The Israeli far-right are bullies. They believe in free speech for themselves but no one else. They’ll use hacks and cyberwarfare to silence their enemies, who can rot in Hell as far as they’re concerned. This is the ugly face of the ultra-nationalist right. This is Israel’s future writ small.
Kaspersky is now helping me fix the damage. Once it is fixed, I will be exposing this individual to the opprobrium he so richly deserves. While I usually find it difficult to interest the MSM in the stories I originate, this will be different. The media will be all over this one. So to my hacker, while you’ve caused me a day’s worth of aggravation, I’m going to take advantage of your little charade to tell the world everything there is about you, your hack, and the nasty pro-Israel ideology you represent. We may be the still small voice. But how we can roar when given half a chance. And my hacker has given me a great opportunity.
Stay tuned, it’ll be fun.
Thanks to all my readers who reported to me what was going on and who have had patience through this mess. The only consolation will be in enjoying the result of exposing him and watching as he twists in the wind.
**
2 months ago the good people at kapersky id’d a security hole in wordpress software
i have a feeling that dickie didnt know this and didnt request a patch
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2012/09/08/israeli-cyberwarfare-campaign-strikes-tikun-olam/
kapersky doesnt track down hackers for free and dickie is broke
think a hacker seriously used his home computer without a redirect to another ip?
if the above is true…then the hacker is some bored 16 year old israeli
can someone contact kapersky and confirm what dickie is saying?
Kaspersky writes a nine page report for a page defacement? Something that happens thousands of times a day?
word is that it was a simple dns redirect, thanks to dickie the moron, changing his server and then telling people on twitter what he was using
no real hack…unless you consider leaving your front door open so people can come in and repaint your place…a hack
kapersky isnt responding to any queries…but trust me…they dont do anything for free
and reports dont take a day
It goes to show that Richard has done a excellent job of exposing you fools. Why all the fuss and attention?
He’ll get over it and you can count he’ll be back to rip you a new ass hole….LOL
No he hasn’t. The only reason he gets attention is that some bigots in the mainstream media take him seriously. And speaking of assholes, try Preparation H.
all Silverstein has done so far is make a lot of silly and angry threats. I suppose that’s the moronic way of trying to heal the world.
this is what you jew hating bastards do
its exactly what the wingnuts in america do
you get online or on the air, say and do disgusting, filthy, inhuman things…then when someone responds, you say, “look, what im saying must mean something, they arent ignoring me”
once we did ignore a raving fool….he ended up having crazy arabs fly planes into buildings
NO MORE
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