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  • Hours after the US airstrike on Iranian territory, Iranian-backed hackers took down US President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
  • Users were struggling to access Truth Social in the early morning following the alleged hack.
  • As the US continues to insert itself into the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the US government believes more cyberattacks could happen.
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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 18 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Iran pls hack Elon Musk's Twitter account and post "I'm a mean old Nazi who sucks ass at Path of Exile 2"

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck it, take down the entire internet

[–] saruwatarikooji@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's been tried. A huge percentage of the internet runs on Amazon web services... And a massive ddos attack on that barely bumped it beyond the level of holiday shopping.

To get anywhere on "taking down the internet" they'd probably have to physically take out many sites across the globe.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"accidentally" leaving an anchor dragging across an intercontinental internet cable would do it

[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Russia is working on it just support Russia. /s

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 35 points 10 hours ago

Lol. Lmao, even

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 9 hours ago

Is this how we find out that Truth Social was running even harder on hopes and dreams than 4chan was?

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 76 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I'm still at a loss for words thinking that any real human people joined truth social. We really failed as a species...

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Equally upsetting. The site is truthsocial.com not truth.social

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Someone should buy truth.social and make it redirect to something trump's base hates.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 8 hours ago

Like Wikipedia?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 hours ago

Annoyingly, already registered

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They said something they hate.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

…with a jump scare?

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 14 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 63 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 38 points 14 hours ago

nah it's a lazy fork so seeing how he chooses people (they're either cheap or friends of friends or both) "truth" can easily have a totally new security issue

maybe the server has a root password that's "trump454748$$$"

[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 24 points 14 hours ago

This is the saddest good news I've ever read.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Is It Mastodon?! For real? Does it have ActivityPub enabled and all of that?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 54 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

It is a modified version of Mastodon, with a Soapbox front end. It does not have ActivityPub enabled and lacks a bunch of features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 15 hours ago

The Mastodon developers then formally requested that Truth Social comply with the terms of the software license,[75] with Truth Social publishing its source code as a ZIP file on the website on November 12, 2021.

Lol they actually complied with the license in the end, i didnt know that.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago

I wonder how much of it is vibe coded at this point....

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 106 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 46 points 16 hours ago (27 children)

Its like watching two shitty people have an argument.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 31 points 15 hours ago (11 children)

The only problem is that felon 47 isn't going to fight. Innocent americans are going to get killed and that disgusting psychopath is going to spit on their graves.

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[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 245 points 19 hours ago (4 children)
[–] cole@lemdro.id 17 points 12 hours ago

source: https://xkcd.com/932/

(for those that want to read the alt-text)

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 38 points 16 hours ago

I mean it does depend on the extent of the hack. But usually taking down the website, they don't take the databases or anything

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 203 points 19 hours ago (10 children)

Unclear from the article but, while a bit pedantic, this sounds more like it was potentially a DDoS attack rather than a proper "hack".

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 119 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

In an age where "willfully giving out your account password" is called hacking, here I'd call it tomato or tomato.

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 118 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 60 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 95 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Might be smart for Iran to just attack trump’s businesses as retribution for the bombings; if they attack the military, we’ll surely get pulled into another war, but just going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response and maybe will make republicans come around to the fact that he should have divested himself from his businesses when he became president.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 29 points 16 hours ago

His administration says damage to Teslas equates to terrorism. I don’t think it would go how you’re thinking.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 48 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response

More likely, it makes the poor baby (-hands) cry and throw a tantrum. Being the malignant narcissist he is, he thinks the resources of the United States government are entirely at his disposal. With that in mind, he's absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his businesses.

Whether saner heads prevail, all we can do is hope.

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[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

The best hacking. Everyone knows it. Everyone says it.

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 15 points 15 hours ago

Good, now leak all the spicy dms.

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