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  • Hours after the US airstrike on Iranian territory, Iranian-backed hackers took down US President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
  • Users were struggling to access Truth Social in the early morning following the alleged hack.
  • As the US continues to insert itself into the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the US government believes more cyberattacks could happen.
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Good, now leak all the spicy dms.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I bet it's the US.
They're already starting the 💀Iranian sleeper cell terrorists!!!!😱 scaremongering in the press.
These kinds of reports in the media are the first step in a known pattern of priming and nudging to rally up the public for another war.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago

nah it's a lazy fork so seeing how he chooses people (they're either cheap or friends of friends or both) "truth" can easily have a totally new security issue

maybe the server has a root password that's "trump454748$$$"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

This is the saddest good news I've ever read.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is It Mastodon?! For real? Does it have ActivityPub enabled and all of that?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

It is a modified version of Mastodon, with a Soapbox front end. It does not have ActivityPub enabled and lacks a bunch of features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Mastodon developers then formally requested that Truth Social comply with the terms of the software license,[75] with Truth Social publishing its source code as a ZIP file on the website on November 12, 2021.

Lol they actually complied with the license in the end, i didnt know that.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

“Hacker group”.

What a joke. Any kid with a credit card can unleash a ddos attack on a website.

An irrelevant website none the less. If that pile of shit goes down then the entire world benefits.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Its like watching two shitty people have an argument.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What did Iran do? Seems like all the shitty is on one side.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Iran is known for its barbaric treatment of women who refuse the forced muslim dress code. They are a equally corrupt government. No good people involved at the upper levels. SSDD.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

While there are religious extremists in Iran, their level of influence on Iranian culture is not anywhere near what you’re saying. You’re just repeating western propaganda.

They did have a controversial new dress code law that was supposed to go into effect at the end of last year, but it was blocked for being to extreme and vague.

However, my state just forced a brain dead woman to incubate a baby against the family’s will. So I’m inclined to agree with those saying the religious extremists exercise greater control in the US than Iran, and by your standards that means they should bomb us. Because I guess you think killing people is equal to freeing them.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (16 children)

Yeah good thing the US respects women's autonomy and isn't being strangled by a fundamentalist religious movement that wants to force women to be nothing more than incubators, maids, and fuck toys....😒

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

SSDD? Same shit, different dictator - I like it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Solid-State Disk Drive, it's a regular hard drive with the platters hot-glued to stay still

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

That's right. The platters are heavy, and the reader head is light, so we just whip the reader head around at 7200rpm

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (11 children)

The only problem is that felon 47 isn't going to fight. Innocent americans are going to get killed and that disgusting psychopath is going to spit on their graves.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Innocent Americans don't wear the US fascist army uniform.
I will spit on their grave.

So let the downvoting, bootlicking and whitewashing begin.
You'll have to be creative, not this tired garbage:

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He would have to even think about them to do that. I doubt the ground level costs of his actions and choices ever enter his mind in any real way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Oh he thinks of them. He thinks of them as trash.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Andrew Tate's site was based on some OSS software that they didn't credit (in violation of the license) and was an old version with known vulnerabilities. Which is why it got hacked.

I don't know if Truth Social is in the same boat, but it's possible. I think I heard it's just Mastodon with federation turned off? Or am I thinking of some other crappy alt-right site?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

It certainly had some Mastodon code but I think they sent them a C&D and they removed the it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

isitdown reports its been down for over five days, which is quite pleasant.

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