5 days ago, the account @theshadowbrokers started reposting their messages.
It wasn't really detected by anyone, or thought to be a fake account, which was my initial thought too.
If you don't know who they are, here's the current Wikipedia header:
The Shadow Brokers (TSB) is a hacker group originating in summer 2016.[1][2] They published several leaks of some of the National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools.[1] Specifically, exploits and vulnerabilities[3][4] targeting enterprise firewalls, anti-virus products and Microsoft products
Their latest post seems a steemit exlusive!
https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@theshadowbrokers/lost-in-translation
This leak is their most prominent so far, as it affects a lot of current systems. Details are all over the press (including the steemit link), one of the first overviews can be found here:
https://medium.com/@networksecurity/latest-shadow-brokers-dump-owning-swift-alliance-access-cisco-and-windows-7b7782270e70
I had a look at the profile, and checked the BTC address there - it's the "official" shadowbrokers address. And they tweeted the steemit links! 15k views at the time of this post!
Enough for me to regard the account as legit until proven different. But just check it out yourself!
All their posts still have at least 2 days left for upvotes! Give them a steemy welcome!
I just posted about them the other day
https://steemit.com/hackers/@crystalandbones/snowden-tweets-about-nsa-hack-by-shadow-brokers
A day before they posted their first message here - suspicious! Did you lead them here, or ....
No way! I hope not! Haha They seem to be a bit on the dangerous side. They're pro Trump/Bannon!
Call me crazy but that freaks me out!
This is from their open letter to Trump.
"Globalism
If Globalism is being so cool and awesome, why all the peoples come to only one country, American? Isn’t that being opposite of globalism? If globalism shouldn’t all peoples be staying in own countries and America be exporting culture and ideas to them? If cultures, beliefs, and philosophies of Africa, Asia, and India is being so cool and awesome, why isn’t everyone immigrating there? Because its not and they aren’t. European or Western Culture has proven is being best and most dominant, nothing to do with skin colors, white, brown, yellow, but is having to do with being red. No not red communism, red as in blood. European ancestors did the work, the thinking, the rebelling, the fighting, the killing, and the dying. Sometimes they being on rite side of history and sometimes not, but result is being great culture and society. “But, America is nation of immigrants!” Yes, but until 30 years ago most immigrants being Europeans. Jeudeo-Christian Europeans minor cultural differences. Don’t bring the world to America, bring America to the world. America first. English first. American workers first. American students first. American culture first."
They are a group of nationalists who think that immigrants in America are great as long as they're of European decent.
I visited their blog and liked one of their posts because I believe in transparency, but then I started seeing the word globalism more and more until I found that comment.
I come from like the original Judeo-Christian country in this side of the world and it's still considered the third world, so that's not what gets people civilized. Even though is supposed to be a shithole when whites visit most don't want to leave. They go back to their countries for work until they can gather more money and come back. Many renounce their citizenship the minute they can pay the fine...
I had no intention of ever visiting America but fell in love with someone whose great culture has failed in regards to education and can't get a job elsewhere. Someone who probably grew up thinking nothing would ever lack as long as they speak English. I had to leave my country to accommodate not only my lover but her family who are disable and the government doesn't seem to care that much.
What percentage of them has to be European for it to work? Will the US sponsor the DNA testing too?
I'm not saying these people don't have a point about culture shock and how it can sometimes be damaging, and maybe there is too much people in this country though having seen other countries it wouldn't seem like it. But trust me...the whole world doesn't want to move to America or countries with European majority, that's just silly.
I'm an American and I don't even want to be here most of the time!
You have the right to leave!
Here is a link to their open letter to Trump.
https://medium.com/@shadowbrokerss/dont-forget-your-base-867d304a94b1
That's fantastic! 15k views?! I resteemed it. Lets bring em to steemit!
They are! Those views already happened, we just missed it :D
Don't miss to head to their profile and upvote there!
Already did ;)
Ah sorry, I probably misunderstood you there :)
Anyway, can't say it often enough, they deserve more of our love!
please stop. spamming is not nice.
I've never flagged before and quite reluctant to do so. But spamming comments in posts made by others is too much. Couldn't care less if its in your own posts. I'll leave it as of now, but please stop buddy..
why was this great?
This is HUGE! Thanks for sharing the good news and rather interesting topic too... Namaste :)
27k Views!!! yeaaaa!!
Cool beans man, this is a solid post and reporting by you @pharesim.
Heading now to check stuff out......... Have a good weekend.
^ Notified hax0r's are posting random links on Steemit ... rushes to click links for inside skewp.
Thank you for your efforts to make a true world.
And all of you fighting ~
Thanks for sharing.
Great post.
Upvote and resteem @pharesim
Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.
Interesting...I'll investigate.
I saw them and figured it was just someone playing around. That is pretty incredible that they are posting here.
Maybe this kind of stuff is the real reason Dan left?
You mean he may be afraid of the NSA? :D
woah!! cool!
woah! 15k views is quite something. Awesome.
Interesting.
Good post. Upvote and I will follow you! ;)
Nice! Thanks for the heads up!
This is amazing!
interesting , thank you for sharing! ;))
@pharesim How did you manage to properly embed a tweet on steemit? When I use the code provided it always comes out incorrectly. Been trying to figure this out for weeks. I liked the post but you got my upvote for the awesome proper tweet!
Hehe. That's a screenshot :D
LOl, I was wondering. You still get my up vote.
Thank you for the STEEM faucet donation @pharesim
Wow, your post gets 400 more votes.
very amazing @faresim
thanks @pharesim for upvoting my introduction post.its a good way to have my self esteem here..thanks a lot..if you dont mind i like to follow you so that i can see your future posts.thanks again my friend
This post is awesome, I have to share / resteem this, Although it was too late.
I hope you agree. @pharesim
Sure, go ahead. No permission needed :D
i hope there are a few people out there to protect earth, together with this company:
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@linardis/6cvzdk-avalon-vs-goliath
Thanks for hinting me to your spam post -.-
thats no spam, read the article. we need people with higher mind to protect mother earth!
isnt it great to know there is someone standig up to fight the big companys?
...they only look at their profit. not at the humans... your choice.
but what will you tell the children in near future?
peace
What? It's an affiliate link to a cloud mining company in the bottom, and that's spam.
its the only company i know with real crypto-mining.
and they protect the earth. but you dont want to know anything about it.
its ok. feel good
How stupid do you think I am, avoiding the more common term cloud mining, because everybody already knows that's a scam. There's no difference between them and other cloud mining companies. Best way to save the planet is to not waste energy mining, but use DPoS coins like Steem.
Perhaps you can write a post later on explaining how security works when influence can be purchased with fiat, I still don't get it and that's why I'm a little nervous about Steem even though I decide to believe in it. How is DPoS different than PoS?
Mining is so wasteful that it's quite hard to support it and protect the mother earth at the same time.