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[–] [email protected] 325 points 1 month ago (13 children)

This is going to be another Panama files isn't it? Overwhelming evidence that billionaires are shits and world governments everywhere collectively do fuck all about it.

[–] [email protected] 223 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm certain some people will go to jail.

You can't just release information about politicians and billionaires and not go to jail.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Windows will be turned into exits

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, that's sort of a gimmie with swasticars.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they were able to recoup a few billion in taxes or something, but like, no arrests or anything. I think one person got killed exposing it too.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/panama-papers-taxes-recovered-1.7501312

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Technically only half true. They know, but they're not doing fuck all about it, they're murdering the journalists that expose the rampant corruption.

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[–] [email protected] 231 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)
[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

Anonymous are the heroes. Thanks for posting the article!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (10 children)
[–] Jakeroxs 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably too old a reference for most lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

It's an older meme, but it checks out

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To clarify:

Though the group currently calling itself Anonymous that just published all this ... derives the aesthetics and what not from stuff that arose on 4chan in the mid/late 00s...

They almost certainly have nothing to do with 4chan going down.

4chan was taken down by a group of people that used to post on a 4chan subboard, which was removed... and then they started their own community 'Soyjack Party'.

Which, ironically, is a very similar story as to why 4chan even exists: m00t used to post hentai and loli on SomethingAwful, and then that subboard got shut down, m00t and other frequent posters there got banned, and then they made 4chan.

Like... I stopped using 4chan almost two decades ago now, when m00t made a big announcement post, which later disappeared, stating that as a result of increased media scrutiny and a number of high profile crimes that were connected back to 4chan posts... well m00t said that he was cooperating with the authorities.

I can't prove this, because ... two decades ago, and the announcement was only up for ... less than 24hrs... but yeah, as the SoyJack Party hack of 4chan has confirmed, it was obvious that 4chan was/is a shitshow joke of an operation held together by ducttape and fishing lines.

For fucks sake, their versions of PHP and MySQL were like 12 years out of date and had numerous, extensively well documented security flaws.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My joke was implying that they had nothing better to do than infiltrate confidential Russian servers since 4chan was down. Lol

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dominos pizza! I knew I tasted something fishy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Danone is an interesting one. They’re the second largest consumer water supplier in the world.

https://www.statista.com/topics/9561/bottled-water-market-worldwide/

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Found this on hacker news, some people there say this data dump is total bs and for the news page itself: It's an article from an Indian right wing conspiracy news website. Check out their other hard hitting journalism: https://archive.ph/8RGAb"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

The screenshot of files looks like an troll. I can't believe nobody is pointing this out.

I mean really. Who even names folders like that.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wonder what's in the trump folder

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It may be trump in it but it says krasnov on it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Krasnov of Mar-a-Lago

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nothing. 2 CMD prompt outputs of possible vulnerabilities, nothing concrete at all

thats all under "Leaked Data of Donald Trump"

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There is nothing under the trump folder except 2 pics of possible vulnerabilities from a CMD prompt. Maybe some stuff in other data, but the trump folder is bust

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

I give Anonymous credit on one thing: they're always punching upwards.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is Agent Krasnov on the list?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

Trump had a folder on the picture of folders.

I don't know any more than that.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Someone please look into the Trump folder and tell us what is there

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

Nothing. 2 CMD prompt outputs of possible vulnerabilities, nothing concrete at all

thats all under "Leaked Data of Donald Trump"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Need to look under "K"

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Site is not loading on my side

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago

Surely this means Lemmy has finally reached critical mass and we're slashdotting other sites now. /s

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lemmy's insignificant caress.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Lemmy's finger up the butt

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

ABRUPT_RECORD_SCRATCH.wav

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

There's a twitter thread. An account named 'Anonymous France' has posted this link : https://www.mediafire.com/file/9prdor8m7a1z9f6/Leaked+Data+of+corrupt+officials.rar/file . Cannot verify the veracity of this information, but there was a r/worldnews thread saying that's its mostly worthless. This news site is known for peddling fake news, so it might be a whole lot of nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

I'd download this but I'm worried it could also contain some form of advanced spyware, and my "security computer" needs a new screen cable at the moment.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

they should release magnets of chunks of the data

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Site doesn't load for me and I can't find any other sources yet. Interesting to see what comes out of this, but I won't be downloading 10tb myself to find out, tempting as it may be

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Has anyone actually opened said data yet?

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