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SpyNews victim of hostile hack (english)
by SpyNews subscriber 7:06pm Tue Nov 6 '01 (Modified on 1:37pm Sat Nov 17 '01)

SpyNews was an open source list-serv on the subject of intelligence, surveillance and security. It was very recently the victim of a hostile hack, which erases all 26,000 messages in its on-line archive.

Dear Spy News subscribers, all 1943 of you:

I am so happy to announce that there is not going to be any more messages from this list until I receive the answers -- asked from abuse@wanadoo.fr; postmaster@wanadoo.fr; support@yahoogroups.com; -- related to the damage done to my Spy News archive (more than 26000 messages deleted), and other databases. It makes me so happy because from now on I am going to cut off my marathon research online; You bet I do know how to spend the money I was just throwing into this waste Cyberspace paying my phone bills since July 8, 2001 when I enthusiastically established this OSINT Newsletter and discussion list. I know you all loved it, and one of the main reasons was because it was free. It made Spy News so popular, but it was free for you only. Some of you might remember my query about possible sponsorship. There were no results and I was already close to the decision to quit. Unfortunately, then September 11 happened and I thought I should do my Spy News work for a while sharing my sources with all of you my fellow Spy News listers. That was the purpose of our Spy News searchable archive I was maintaining at Spy News home page with YahooGroups.Com .   I still yet have all these 26000+ messages saved at my hard disk at home, so destroying that archive at YahooGroups.Com server was a damage done to you only, and I am sorry for that no matter who was that idiot who did that. (Anyway, I posted Jean-Paul Ney's message to the list with his own photo attached (see below). For your remembrance.)   I made a backup of all your 1943 e-mail addresses just in case one day I decide to start this list again at some other server. You will know that.   In the meantime, please, there is no need for you to send me your messages of support (you know these "keep doing your great job!" "we support you", "I am with you Mario" etc.) I had enough of it, believe me. And I love you too. :)   Best wishes to all of you. Hope you will remember me from time to time and come to my web site, knowing that there is always something new at Mario's Cyberspace Station.   Cordially, Mario Profaca independent journalist Zagreb, Croatia   Mario's Cyberspace Station The Global News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html

BACKGROUND
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 2:56 PM To: [Spy News] Subject: [Spy News] FW: ##### URGENT FW: ALERT: Spy News List Archive destroyed! FIRST ADVICE     Dear Spy News list subscribers, Jean-Paul Ney claimed he hacked Spy News Yahoo group. Older Spy News subscribers know Jean-Paul Ney is a bogus "French police inspector" who was banned from Spy News list after he offended and menaced several Spy News subscribers. Now I ask ALL SPY NEWS SUBSCRIBERS to write to the following three e-mail addresses: abuse@wanadoo.fr postmaster@wanadoo.fr support@yahoogroups.com   Please, ask them to do something about it, because they never answered to my complains. Otherwise this is going to be the last message you received from this list. Mario Profaca independent journalist Spy News list owner&moderator  
 
MESSAGE FROM MALICIOUS HACKER
Message----- From: intelink intelink@wanadoo.fr Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 9:20 AM To: Mario.Profaca@zg.tel.hr Subject: ALERT: Spy News List Archive destroyed! FIRST ADVICE   You see what happen stupid MORON when somebody try to fuck with me ? I know a lot of people, dark and white people... next time it will be not on your list, but ON YOU. I will destroy definitively you and your list if you dont answer and try to understand WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED WITH ME. answer or die.   ---

add your own comments

You should make backups of your backup (english)
by x 8:45pm Tue Nov 6 '01

Just on the possiblility that there is useful information there. I've noticed that a lot of things on the internet have been getting deleted lately (I think something happened over at www.copvcia.com and the Green Yahoo groups in FLA to name a few). Some very sophisticated viruses are going around and your harddrive is definately not secure. Be smart and make copies.

znet (english)
by hmm 9:07pm Tue Nov 6 '01

remember Znet copped a wipeout and was down for a few days...

Luckily was all restored...

reply (english)
by SpyNews subscriber 9:23am Wed Nov 7 '01

neither X nor Hmmm appear to have read the original post carefully.

It was a MALICIOUS hack that someone took credit for, and the SpyNews list owner DID back-up on to his own hard-drive, not that it did any good.

SpyNews, I suggest you make several backups. (english)
by Cyberspace veteran. 9:52am Wed Nov 7 '01

I suggest you make several backups. A hard drive may be easy to hack into nowadays by some people. Maybe back up to a CD-ROM also. And don't keep all your backups in one location.

Making death threats is illegal in most places. Pass on the email to authorities with the full headers.

And finally, are you absolutely sure this email is from who it says it is from? It may be a diversion from the real source of the archive deletion.

SPY NEWS LIST OWNER'S DISCLAIMER (english)
by Mario Profaca 4:04pm Wed Nov 7 '01

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Tracking referrers of my web site visitors I realised
there were some of them coming from this URL (referrer)
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=84991&group=webcast
and so I came here and found out that somebody (evidently one of 1943 Spy News list subscribers) posted some parts of one of my messages sent to our list subscribers only, explaining what happened.
Included was that message (funny "CIA" photo
attached) I received from a guy claiming he destroyed
our list archive at yahoogroups.com and even threatening
me (which I didn't find so interesting).

I do appreciate this Independent Media Center (indymedia.org) but nevertheless I must inform this forum
that I personaly didn't start this discussion here nor it was my idea to repost above mentioned message and the photo at this URL. The full headers of all messages related to this event I posted to my Spy News list only, and of course I sent it to wanadoo.fr , yahoogroups.com and to the French police so they might do a research, investigation or whatever.

Finaly, it's fair to inform you that in the meantime I
received another e-mail message from that interesting French guy denying it was him who did it to yahoogroups.com Spy News list, claiming it was somebody else, somebody who "hacked his modem" (sic) and did that from his PC while he was in the Middle East. In fact headers of all messages, both coming from "real Jean-Paul Ney" and presumed "hacker" (including one with Jean-Paul Ney's own "CIA photo" attached) were identical. What's more several of them were sent just 5-6 minutes after each other, evidently after he "returned from the Middle East".

Everything else is a pure speculation until verified.

MARIO PROFACA,
independent journalist,

Spy News OSINT Newsletter editor,

list owner and moderator.

mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html

P.S. (english)
by Mario Profaca 5:21pm Wed Nov 7 '01


P.S.

Of course, it was an error in my previous message;
Referring to the photo of/from that man I meant
"NSA photo" as evident by its amblem, not "CIA photo"
as I wrote by mistake. Sorry. :)

Mario Profaca

mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html

ACCUSING WITH NOO PROOFS ?? WHAT A MORON !!! (english)
by Francis 8:47am Thu Nov 15 '01
info@interieur.gouv.fr

Dear all,

Mister Mario is conducting himself as a kid.

He accuses without proofs a respectable journalist.

Here is Mister Ney response on the listed link.

thanks !

F.R

www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=...

Mario, you are very bad guy... (english)
by Jean-Paul Ney 9:06am Thu Nov 15 '01
jpney@wanadoo.fr

www.intelink.org

Why are you lying MARIO ? (english)
by Daniel 9:14am Thu Nov 15 '01

I just received spy news list again.

And my surprise waht to read that :
_______________________________________________________

Dear Spy News listers,

I'm glad to announce that our Spy News list
is on the road again. Complete Spy News archive
has been restored and it's again there for you
to search among 26.000 messages/articles
I stored in past two years.

Thanks all for your support, but please don't
neither ask me how I did it nor comment it any more,
so as not to waste Spy News list bandwidth.

8-)

Mario Profaca
Spy News OSINT Newsletter
editor and discussion moderator

P.S.

I think you might take a look here too:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=84991&group=webcast

I have no idea who posted it,
but nevertheless it's okay now.

__________________________________________________

I have no idea who posted it,
but nevertheless it's okay now. >>> YOU HAVE NO IDEA ??? YOU POSTED THAT ON INDYMEDIA AND YOU SAID YOU HAVE NO IDEA, sorry Mario, you way is dark...

Jean-Paul Ney is not a hacker (english)
by henry 9:52am Thu Nov 15 '01

ass seen on http://www.aigis-agency.com/team.htm

WHO IS JEAN-PAUL NEY

Jean-Paul NEY [Cooperation, FRANCE] is the current director of the Intelligence Portal INTELINK.org Special Operations adviser, close to French Intelligence, writer and journalist, this expert about Intelligence agreed to work within our cooperation through an exchange of data and documents. He knows very well computer sciences and has a great Intelligence network all over the world. Know at the NSA, CIA and others, Mr NEY shares our common passion of intelligence.

www.aigis-agency.com/team.htm

MARIO YOUR HACK WAS FAKE AS YOU (english)
by indictor 10:06am Thu Nov 15 '01

WE KNOW THAT YOUR HACK WAS FAKE AS YOU ARE.

WHY YOU TRY TO ACCUSE THIS GOOD JOURNALIST ??

CAUSE HE WAS THE ONLY JOURNALIST TO BE INVITED AT NSA ??

ARE YOU JELOUS MARIO ?

SPYNEWS WAS HOAXED, let true intelligence do. (english)
by Charles P. RAULT 3:01am Sat Nov 17 '01
director@aigis-agency.com

To Mario Profaca, and all his friends,

I like spynews, but I think that publicly attacking Mr NEY without any proofs is a great mistake. French justice won't be nice with you if you continue. Mr Profaca showed us two or three little email headers. These can't be proofs. Indeed, any hacker is able to do headers, or to write emails under the name of another one. This is I think what was done against Mr NEY is wrong. He has no interests to hack spynews archives. This is too easy to denounce someone while there are no proofs. If you like democracy, so you will understand me. You put the privacy of Mr NEY in danger by putting information online. This is a very serious issue. I advise Mr Profaca to stop these attacks. I understand that one can be angered after what happened to spynews archives, but this is not enough to illegally attack someone who is certainly innocent and the victim of hacktivism.

Please read the message I post a few days ago and that Mr Profaca never published on spynews while I asked for it to be put online. Mr Profaca, if you are truly for freedom of speech, so publish it. This is not against you. This is for the truth. Que vive Spynews, que Vive la France et les USA !

Mr Profaca,

I am truly not against you and thus, you can apologize to me too. I am honest, and I can assure that Mr NEY can't be responsible for what happened. He was NOT in France when this trouble occured. I tell you the TRUTH. I have truly no interests to lie. I know that the headers are identical but a good hacker is able to do this easily. I am convinced that someone wants to put this man in trouble. Why don't you believe me ? A header is not a proof. A confirmation from Wanadoo and French Police would be. But I am sure they will tell you you are wrong. So please, just believe me. Someone used his account at wanadoo. This is an hoax. I am sure, that someone clever as you are is able to understand that sometimes there are things that lead you in mistake. I am convinced that you do a mistake by saying, just with argument emails headers, Mr NEY is responsible. If you are for freedom of sppech, you will difuse my argument on the list. I like spynews and I really do not to put you in trouble. I am a serious geopolitician. I want democracy to win. Mr PROFACA, a hacker is trying to show that you believe in hoax so as to discredit you and spynews. I am convinced of it, and I know computer sciences enough to tell you this is totally possible even if it is illegal and stupid.

I hope you will understand what I mean. Thanks.

Charles P. RAULT

SPYNEWS : no-intelligence list (english)
by Charles P. RAULT 3:14am Sat Nov 17 '01
director@aigis-agency.com

Mr Profaca, Everyone,

Mr Profaca told :
"Everything else is a pure speculation until verified."

My answer :
=> While I tried (with politeness and respect) to explain to Mr Profaca why he was wrong by illegally accusing Mr NEY of hacking and death threats, the owner of spynews list (Mr Profaca himself) unsubscribed me from his list.

Where is the freedom of speech ?

Where is the reason ?

Where are your arguments ?

NOWHERE. But do not worry, if you continue like this, spynews will be in great danger given that French Justice, I think, will take appropriate decisions.

Vive la France, Vive les USA, Vive la Liberté !

Charles.

ROULLLLLEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZ (english)
by da hacker 5:39am Sat Nov 17 '01
fuckyou@anarchists.gov

Mr Ney is a good journalist (english)
by Aldo.P 5:55am Sat Nov 17 '01

I know Mr Ney since 1996, he's not a HACKER nor a DESTROYER.


He works as independent journalist.


The front attacks on him prooves tha this "stupid" Mario is a script kiddie and he doesn't even know how a PC or hack works !!!

1) Mario "stupid" profaca, lost all his archives by mistake, he took this superb ocasion to false accuse Mr Ney

2) Mario is MANIPULATED BY EXTREMIST ARABS or COMMUNISTS or CIA then thsy want to disturb Mr Ney's activities

I SAID LAS NIGHT: STOP STUPID KIDDIES LIKE MARIO ON THE WEB !!!

Who is MARIO PROFACA ??? (english)
by dafucker 6:01am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 1)

You know guys, I dismissed from Mario's fucking stupid mailing list.

I DONT APPRECIATE THE WAY HE ACTS...


NOW, let me publish (to defend Mr Nez) somme nice pictures about the Mario's MOTHER and SISTERS.


YES GUYS !! CROATIANS ARE ARAB COMMUNIST BITCHES !!!!

Who is MARIO PROFACA ??? (english)
by dafucker 6:01am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 2)

You know guys, I dismissed from Mario's fucking stupid mailing list.

I DONT APPRECIATE THE WAY HE ACTS...


NOW, let me publish (to defend Mr Nez) somme nice pictures about the Mario's MOTHER and SISTERS.


YES GUYS !! CROATIANS ARE ARAB COMMUNIST BITCHES !!!!

Who is MARIO PROFACA ??? (english)
by dafucker 6:01am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 3)

You know guys, I dismissed from Mario's fucking stupid mailing list.

I DONT APPRECIATE THE WAY HE ACTS...


NOW, let me publish (to defend Mr Nez) somme nice pictures about the Mario's MOTHER and SISTERS.


YES GUYS !! CROATIANS ARE ARAB COMMUNIST BITCHES !!!!

Who is MARIO PROFACA ??? (english)
by dafucker 6:01am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 4)

You know guys, I dismissed from Mario's fucking stupid mailing list.

I DONT APPRECIATE THE WAY HE ACTS...


NOW, let me publish (to defend Mr Nez) somme nice pictures about the Mario's MOTHER and SISTERS.


YES GUYS !! CROATIANS ARE ARAB COMMUNIST BITCHES !!!!

Who is MARIO PROFACA ??? (english)
by dafucker 6:01am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 5)

You know guys, I dismissed from Mario's fucking stupid mailing list.

I DONT APPRECIATE THE WAY HE ACTS...


NOW, let me publish (to defend Mr Nez) somme nice pictures about the Mario's MOTHER and SISTERS.


YES GUYS !! CROATIANS ARE ARAB COMMUNIST BITCHES !!!!

lets cyyyyyyyyyyy (english)
by dahacker 6:14am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 1)

i lova it !!

lets cyyyyyyyyyyy (english)
by dahacker 6:14am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 2)

i lova it !!

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by dahacker 6:14am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 3)

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by dahacker 6:14am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 4)

i lova it !!

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(article 5)

i lova it !!

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by dafucker 6:29am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 1)

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by dafucker 6:29am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 2)

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(article 3)

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by dafucker 6:29am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 4)

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by dafucker 6:29am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 5)

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more filezzzzzzzzzz (english)
by dafucker 6:29am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 6)

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more filezzzzzzzzzz (english)
by dafucker 6:29am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 7)

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by dafucker 6:29am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 8)

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by dafucker 6:29am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 9)

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waaaaaaaazzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (english)
by MARIO PROFACA 6:39am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 1)

MY NAME IS MARIO PROFACA, IM A STUPID SO CALLED JOURNALIST.

I am a stupid moron KILL ME !!

I WORK WITH CIA !!! KILL ME !!!

IM A COMMUNIST !!! FUCK ME !!!

WAZZZAAAAAAAAAA (english)
by MARIO PROFACA 6:45am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 1)

AGAIN ME !!!

KILL ME HACK ME!!! IM A MORON WHO ACUSSES PEOPLE WITHOUT PROOFS !!!

WAZZZAAAAAAAAAA (english)
by MARIO PROFACA 6:45am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 2)

AGAIN ME !!!

KILL ME HACK ME!!! IM A MORON WHO ACUSSES PEOPLE WITHOUT PROOFS !!!

WAZZZAAAAAAAAAA (english)
by MARIO PROFACA 6:45am Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 3)

AGAIN ME !!!

KILL ME HACK ME!!! IM A MORON WHO ACUSSES PEOPLE WITHOUT PROOFS !!!

MARIO IS A MORON !!! (english)
by dahacker 1:05pm Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 1)

MArio, you are a stupid MORON ASSHOLE DICK !!!

PEOPLE TOLD YOUTHE TRUTH AND YOU BAN THEM FROM YOUR LIST ???

WHAT A COMMUNIST YOU ARE !!!

MARIO IS A MORON !!! (english)
by dahacker 1:05pm Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 2)

MArio, you are a stupid MORON ASSHOLE DICK !!!

PEOPLE TOLD YOUTHE TRUTH AND YOU BAN THEM FROM YOUR LIST ???

WHAT A COMMUNIST YOU ARE !!!

more MARIO PROFACA (MIERDA) PICS !! (english)
by dapiturer 1:18pm Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 1)

MARIO PROFACA IS A HEADDICK !

MARIO PROFACA IS A MOTHERFUCKER !

MARIO PROFACA IS A SUCKER !

MARIO PROFACA IS A GAY !

more MARIO PROFACA (MIERDA) PICS !! (english)
by dapiturer 1:18pm Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 2)

MARIO PROFACA IS A HEADDICK !

MARIO PROFACA IS A MOTHERFUCKER !

MARIO PROFACA IS A SUCKER !

MARIO PROFACA IS A GAY !

more MARIO PROFACA (MIERDA) PICS !! (english)
by dapiturer 1:18pm Sat Nov 17 '01

(article 3)

MARIO PROFACA IS A HEADDICK !

MARIO PROFACA IS A MOTHERFUCKER !

MARIO PROFACA IS A SUCKER !

MARIO PROFACA IS A GAY !

YES IM A MORON DICK HEAD !! KILL ME !!! (english)
by MARIO PROFACA 1:37pm Sat Nov 17 '01

My name is MARIO PROFACA

I have a HEAD DICK, I've killed my parents cause they are MUSLIMS, I'm communist, I HATE ISRAEL AND AMERICA...

My spy news list is PURE SHIT ITS SUX...

At the age on 12 I've rapped my SISTER cause It was da war and I'd like to try on my mother but she was dead.

I've also tortured my cat with a Jewish name (Im a fucking muslim) using a metal fork inserted in the anus and turning it over and over.

I wanna be tortured by the MOSSAD.