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Mind blowing interview with the hacker who brought down Wikileaks
Brandon Davenport
On June 30th 2010, months before the Wikileaks attack, German newspaper “Die Welt” sat down and talked with th3j35t3r, the guy behind dozens of attacks on Jihadi websites and in a few months, the infamous DDoS attacks on Wikileaks. The interview itself is interesting, but what’s more interesting is what a complicated history this guy has.
A few notes from the interview
Q: What is the reason you are doing this?
A: Mainly because nobody else seems to be taking the threat seriously. There are many bloggers and security analysts who do a fine job at passive reporting and speculation, but I prefer a more direct, in-your-face approach. Tweeting every attack publicly serves to undermine the operators of these sites, and brings them to the attention of counterterrorist agencies.
Q: Why do you especially go after the Jihadi propaganda websites and forums?
A: I target known jihadi propaganda, recruitment, training and co-ordination sites because they pose the single biggest threat to the actual physical world at large – rather than being just a threat limited solely to cyberspace itself. By making these methods of terrorist communication unreliable, they become useless as an effective tool.
So clearly, th3j35t3r has a few issues with our world and he is trying to take control of them the best he can through hacking websites, and diminishing the “bad guy’s” ability to communicate online. th3j35t3r sees this as “Hacktavism”, and as most, we don’t know quite what to think of it just yet.
Read more — The full interview on th3j35t3r’s blog
