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Denial of Service Prank Crashing iMessage App for Targeted Developers
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To send an iMessage:
Step 1: Type your message and hit send
Step 2: Put your thumb in the middle of the screen to scan your print
Step 3: Type captcha image
Step 4: Say your verification phrase
Step 5: Take selfie of yourself for face verification
Step 6: Offer 1oz. of blood for dna verifications
Step 7: Repeat until you die of blood loss.
Character and message limits could easily be placed high enough that you'd never notice them except when spamming someone.
You do know when he said "china or taiwan proxy" he meant that the group can make it seem like the attacks are coming from a different country, right?
Apple is really pathetic these days - slow to respond to anything basically. SJ has left for good and the ship is sinking fast.
Ok. So block half the world from your site? Solved your hacking problem but no one can access your site. Well guess that's fine if your site is not relevant to half the world.
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Exactly.
I'm from the USA but live in Taiwan. Netflix and a number of other sites and apps block me. I just use tools to change my IP.
How terrible does a server admin have to be to not be able to handle a simple DDOS attack? Even consumer routers handle that these days... It's studied in freakin college for heaven sake!
It appears that 7535 is Att's number. Would it be possible that you exceeded your monthly 3G allowance and they were just trying to warn you? Check with Att and see what they say. Also this is not an iMessage, it's just a regular text, like I said, most likely from Att.
Um...I hesitate to mention this, as it might come as a shock, but SJ left quite a while ago... for good.
Really gone.
Not with us any more.
Departed.
I suggest you give up on SJ...
But he lives on in anime!Um...I hesitate to mention this, as it might come as a shock, but SJ left quite a while ago... for good.
Really gone.
Not with us any more.
Departed.
I suggest you give up on SJ...
If it's unknown why the devs were targeted, I strongly doubt that Anonymous stands behind. Anonymous are hacking activists, not script-kiddie-pranksters, and they have seldom (if ever) attacked random targets without reason.
This could be a long shot, but I ran into this once when someone who had a basic phone with push to talk enabled upgraded to an iPhone without first disabling PTT with AT&T. Apparently, AT&T's PTT system pushes updates via text message. But give them a call - there's some service on your account that's sending those messages.
Please. There is no Anonymous. Anyone can claim to be them, use a few of their pretentious catchphrases, and suddenly oh noes, it's Anonymous!
You really think that there's not a wide variety of individuals and groups with all kinds of diverse aims and beliefs claiming to be Anonymous right now? If I was a hacker, I'd probably call myself Anonymous too, no matter what I was doing or why. If it confuses the authorities or makes me sound more important with "legion" support, why not?
You really think that there's not a wide variety of individuals and groups with all kinds of diverse aims and beliefs claiming to be Anonymous right now? If I was a hacker, I'd probably call myself Anonymous too, no matter what I was doing or why. If it confuses the authorities or makes me sound more important with "legion" support, why not?
If you didn't see on the news lately, DDoS attacks are being used to larger effects now. Large enough attacks are being generated to slow the Internet in large area. I find it hard to believe that for now, anyone can prevent themselves from falling prey to a DDoS attack if the attacker has his mind set.
I had a friend accidentally do this to me as a joke, but there is a way to solve it, at least, it worked for me.
Add the number/email they came from as a contact. Then, go into Contacts -> their contact -> Send Message.
This will pull up the conversation with them that causes the messages app to crash.
Then, go back to the conversation window by tapping the back button in the upper right. The conversation view should still load.
Swipe across their conversation to delete it.
If anybody has been affected by this, let me know if it works.
Add the number/email they came from as a contact. Then, go into Contacts -> their contact -> Send Message.
This will pull up the conversation with them that causes the messages app to crash.
Then, go back to the conversation window by tapping the back button in the upper right. The conversation view should still load.
Swipe across their conversation to delete it.
If anybody has been affected by this, let me know if it works.
Being anonymous means never having to say who you are.
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Would deleting the saved state for iMessage do the same thing?
That's a bit radical. It should be like this:
Step 6: Offer 1 hair for dna verifications
Step 7: Repeat until you are bald.
An interesting problem. I guess the first thing to do would be for Apple to do some rate limiting. All sorts you could do with that. I can't imagine they would want to scan every message for problems as I imagine that would put a massive strain on servers. Unless they do some client side verification.
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