A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Are we just completely forgetting that backups exist? Nearly every ISP does nightly backups. So yeah, it can be taken offline for a couple of hours, but that doesn’t stop their movement.
When I last checked the sites were still down and the terminal also showed “Deleting Backups” in the end. Also they deleted tons of mail accounts, hosting accounts etc. Even if they manage to come back, this was a huge disruption. And they downloaded most of the data and share it with journalists, so there is even another impact.
Are we just completely forgetting that backups exist? Nearly every ISP does nightly backups. So yeah, it can be taken offline for a couple of hours, but that doesn’t stop their movement.
You can still punch a Nazi even if they’ll just heal up later
When I last checked the sites were still down and the terminal also showed “Deleting Backups” in the end. Also they deleted tons of mail accounts, hosting accounts etc. Even if they manage to come back, this was a huge disruption. And they downloaded most of the data and share it with journalists, so there is even another impact.