Snowden and Assange Targeted by Mysterious Hacker "The Jester"

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Source: Mother Jones

A shadowy, self-described "patriot" hacktivist has launched a series of cyberattacks against Ecuador and says he plans to direct a similar onslaught against any country considering granting asylum to former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The hacker, who calls himself the "th3J35t3r" (the Jester) and in the past has identified himself as a former soldier, has also taken aim at Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder has been assisting Snowden in his efforts to seek safe haven.


On Monday, the Jester launched denial-of-service attacks against Ecuador, which is considering an asylum request from Snowden. He targeted the primary email server for the second biggest Ecuadorean stock exchange and the country's official tourism website. Gabrielle Murillo, a spokeswoman for Ecuador's tourism site, could not confirm the attack and said only that "the internet was working," but the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Dave Maass, who follows the Jester, told Mother Jones that he was unable to access the tourism website after the infiltration occurred. Officials at the stock exchange did not respond to questions sent by Mother Jones.

The Jester, who has one of his computers on display in the International Spy Museum, is famous for launching cyberattacks against WikiLeaks and Al Qaeda-linked web sites.

According to a May story in Newsweek, he's also sought to reveal the identities of jihadists recruiting online and affiliates of the hacktivist group Anonymous. The Jester told the magazine that he views his hacking as an extension of his former military service (he claims that he was affiliated with a "rather famous" unit in Afghanistan), but he said that he has "no official relationship with law enforcement agencies." On his website he describes himself as "pro OUR Military, LEA [law enforcement agencies], & Intel Communities who do the same job no matter who is sitting in the big seat."

Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/hacker-jester-targets-assange-snowden-ecuador

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Here is a link to the Jester's Wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jester

[Iliyah]

1. OH SNAP

Cyberwars!

[struggle4progress]

2. another anonymous asshole

[MADem]

48. +1!!! nt

[msanthrope]

56. Some people call him Maurice. nt

[okaawhatever]

67. LOL nt

[quakerboy]

3. I wonder who's payroll he is on

and how much he gets. Or if he is even a single person, perse.

[villager]

8. or just an in-house personae for the NSA's staff hackers....

n/t

[kestrel91316]

30. He's almost certainly a black project of the NSA

composed of several people.

[perdita9]

4. Karma's a bitch

If you want to expose a crime, fine. It you want to just screw with someone, you deserve the same treatment in kind.

[RufusTFirefly]

5. Might've been more honest if he had called himself the Clapper. n/t

[Myrina]

55. +100

[tiny elvis]

6. no official relationship

what makes our military, lea and intel communities common, or e pluribus unum, to the jester?

[newfie11]

7. Maybe Anonymous will take care of him nt

[7962]

9. I have no use for Wikishits

[mindwalker_i]

25. Yeah, those people who tell you how the government is breaking the law..

Just hate America! We don't need to know any of that shit.

[7962]

59. No, our intelligence doesnt need to be broadcast.

And neither does the relationships we have with those who work against extremists. You dont cut off the leg because you broke your toe.

[movonne]

10. I see the right has sent in inforcers...

[frontier00]

11. Snowden

What if Snowden and Jester are the same person

[RufusTFirefly]

12. And what if Soylent Green were....

Nah. That's just too far fetched.

[L0oniX]

13. The Jester = NSA

[newfie11]

15. +1

[RufusTFirefly]

17. Bingo!

See Post 5.

[NoodleyAppendage]

23. My 1st thought too. n/t

J

[think]

27. Not Booz Allen? /nt

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

28. Sounds like their MO for sure

[DRoseDARs]

14. Ah, ok, he's one of these USAUSAUSA fucktards. No crime too big nor freedom too trampled...

Amurika, right and never wrong!

Edit: It would appear I've broken the 5000 barrier.

[RufusTFirefly]

18. Another Lone Nut (TM)

What would we do without 'em?

[RufusTFirefly]

19. Congrats on 5,000

I'm less than 40 posts behind you....



(When I hit five grand, I plan to retire with my generous DU pension.)

[DRoseDARs]

60. 31 to go; hurry your ass up! And ooooo, we get a pension? Sweet... nt

[Historic NY]

16. I sitting back to watch the show....

[Beacool]

20. The hackers are being hacked?

Well, what goes around, comes around.

[Vietnameravet]

24. My thoughts exactly!

[graham4anything]

26. +1.

[JDPriestly]

41. Yes. The cyberwar is on. Stock up on used books. You're going to need them for those

cold winter nights by the fire when the internet is out.

[Grassy Knoll]

21. Well Now, A New Game......

[frontier00]

22. Wiki page

I added at link to Jester's wiki page in op

[BeyondGeography]

29. Hackerz gonna hack

[SoapBox]

31. Hilarious...

the hackers get hacked.

[Pterodactyl]

32. Those zany hackers!

[Zen Democrat]

33. Could this be the Secret Patriot Government revealing itself (since it has been exposed)?

On his website he describes himself as "pro OUR Military, LEA , & Intel Communities who do the same job no matter who is sitting in the big seat."

I can read that in more than one way.

[Iliyah]

35. Could be

instead of physical wars - cyberwars instead. Most countries are already doing it. Maybe thats why NSA is searching for its next math genius thur K-12th huh?

[TorchTheWitch]

38. that was my first thought

Yeah, they're doing the same job all right.

[Purveyor]

34. IF TRUE, Ecuador should demand this person's immediate arrest and extradition to Ecuador

for the crime he/she committed against their country, no?

If he/she has a website and a computer on display in the Internation Spy Museum, certainly he/she's identity is known or easily made known with all the 'data collection' the NSA is doing.

[FreeBC]

53. Federal laws prohibit hacking, but I doubt they go after this guy like they went after Anonymous

He's not messing with banks or anything...

[geomon666]

36. Jester?

[Hydra]

37. LOL

The NSA can't just say they're doing it. They have to do yet another proxy war.

Gotta admit, getting the whole "I have my propaganda all typed out here for me..."

[Maedhros]

39. Okay - so this self-styled "superpatriot" is hacking Ecuador...

...and the Obama Administration has declared that hacking is an Act of War:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43224451/ns/us_news-security/t/sources-us-decides-cyber-attack-can-be-act-war/

I expect, then, that the Obama Administration will want to very thoroughly investigate this rogue American cyber-warrior and shut him down, since he is waging illegal war against Ecuador.

I bet they'll get right on that.

[Cleita]

40. The Jester, either a Brit or one of the brit colonies.

Shouldn't be hard to trace.

[Laelth]

52. Quite possibly. Could be a Five Eyes operation.

A useful tool for our spooks ... use another country's spooks to do your dirty work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

-Laelth

[Nihil]

63. You reckon?

Check out his "statement" quoted in the OP:

> On his website he describes himself as "pro OUR Military, LEA , & Intel Communities ...

An American will see it as meaning Law Enforcement Agency but to a Brit
it stands for Local Education Authority ... and I *really* can't see anyone
getting all pseudo-patriotic about school inspectors ...

[Cleita]

64. I could be wrong. It just seems like a name like the Jester would more than likely

be a Brit. It also means fool or clown. We, in America, would probably use a different word to mean clown. Jester sounds elegant. We would use something earthier like Bozo.

[Skittles]

42. aw GEE I wonder who s/he works for

[DeSwiss]

43. Another day, another Act of War......

...to go along with all the rest we've committed -- and are still committing.

And I want to take this opportunity to thank President Obama without whom none of this would have been possible.

Make more demands! Make more threats! Tell all the little countries to shape up if they know what's good for them! Don't they know who and what we are!?!?! What we could do to them?!?!?! What we've done to others before!?!?! Yes, show the world the REAL AMERICA, Mr. President.

Show the world the Arrogant America. The Demanding America. The Hypocritical America.

Stir that pot sir, and stir it good.

- And watch the world [font size=5]RISE[/font]......

K&R



[center]''Chaos is required for the veils to fall down.''[/center]

[ForeignandDomestic]

44. Madness!!

We really have gone through the looking glass.. "The Jester" Our reality is really becoming one big Batman movie....

[bemildred]

45. This is a crime, isn't it? nt

[Ash_F]

46. That's adorable. /nt

[Ash_F]

47. Denial-of-service attacks do not make you a hacker

There are step by step tutorials online that laymen can follow.

It's just delinquency.

[dipsydoodle]

49. That lark goes back to the '90s

The Electronic Disturbance Theater http://digitalarts.lmc.gatech.edu/unesco/internet/artists/int_a_edtheater.html all you needed to do was download floodnet software from one their links. They did however warn that each individual is responsible for their own actions and any repercussions.

[Poll_Blind]

65. Read the article, scanned the responses until I hit yours- which is what I was looking for. +1

Indeed. As if the leetspeak handle and the tweeting of "Tango Down" wasn't enough, to read the punchline that he was a DoSer was hilarious.



"th3j35t3r is reported to have up to five telephone lines running out of his grandmother's basement. Two 14.4k modems and a 3 56K's. Impressive." -2600 Magazine circa 1974

PB

[Laelth]

50. Why do I get the feeling that "the jester" is working for the government of the United States?

I dislike being so cynical about my own government.

-Laelth

[Recursion]

61. Confirmation bias

I don't particularly see a difference between Jester and any other Anon.

[Chan790]

62. Unlikely.

The government of the United States has much better toys. DDoS is an untargetable brute-force attack. Easily defensed and not terribly effective to begin with.

[orpupilofnature57]

51. I always think Kkkarl is behind this SHIT .

[JesterCS]

54. its not me i swear! n/t

[bushisanidiot]

57. These guys are all attention seeking drama queens.

.

[Puzzledtraveller]

58. The Magician

[AverageJoe90]

66. Effin' awesome! n/t

[ZombieHorde]

68. Funny. nt

[davidpdx]

69. Who really knows how much of the stuff this person is saying is true

He's probably an attention whore in mom's basement.