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[–] [email protected] 326 points 6 days ago (8 children)

This is going to be another Panama files isn't it? Overwhelming evidence that billionaires are shits and world governments everywhere collectively do fuck all about it.

[–] [email protected] 223 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm certain some people will go to jail.

You can't just release information about politicians and billionaires and not go to jail.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Windows will be turned into exits

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, that's sort of a gimmie with swasticars.

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[–] lobut 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think they were able to recoup a few billion in taxes or something, but like, no arrests or anything. I think one person got killed exposing it too.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/panama-papers-taxes-recovered-1.7501312

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Can people just stop spreading this demoralizing nonsense? Maybe it's not instant-world-changing, but it's definitely not "fuck all" either.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/five-years-later-panama-papers-still-having-a-big-impact/

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

From your links:

Von der Goltz pleaded guilty in December 2019 to conspiracy to commit tax evasion, fraud and submitting false documents. He has already repaid the government more than $230,000.

Original indictment:

These shell companies and bank accounts made investments totaling tens of millions of dollars.

Make it make sense

"Not world changing" is insulting for the amount of money these people hid to avoid taxes.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Technically only half true. They know, but they're not doing fuck all about it, they're murdering the journalists that expose the rampant corruption.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

I mean world governments are run by and for billionaires. People gotta pitchfork if they want something done about it.

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[–] [email protected] 230 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (14 children)
[–] [email protected] 83 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago

Anonymous are the heroes. Thanks for posting the article!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Probably too old a reference for most lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

It's an older meme, but it checks out

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

To clarify:

Though the group currently calling itself Anonymous that just published all this ... derives the aesthetics and what not from stuff that arose on 4chan in the mid/late 00s...

They almost certainly have nothing to do with 4chan going down.

4chan was taken down by a group of people that used to post on a 4chan subboard, which was removed... and then they started their own community 'Soyjack Party'.

Which, ironically, is a very similar story as to why 4chan even exists: m00t used to post hentai and loli on SomethingAwful, and then that subboard got shut down, m00t and other frequent posters there got banned, and then they made 4chan.

Like... I stopped using 4chan almost two decades ago now, when m00t made a big announcement post, which later disappeared, stating that as a result of increased media scrutiny and a number of high profile crimes that were connected back to 4chan posts... well m00t said that he was cooperating with the authorities.

I can't prove this, because ... two decades ago, and the announcement was only up for ... less than 24hrs... but yeah, as the SoyJack Party hack of 4chan has confirmed, it was obvious that 4chan was/is a shitshow joke of an operation held together by ducttape and fishing lines.

For fucks sake, their versions of PHP and MySQL were like 12 years out of date and had numerous, extensively well documented security flaws.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My joke was implying that they had nothing better to do than infiltrate confidential Russian servers since 4chan was down. Lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Whelp, thats a whoosh moment for me than lol.

But it does seem like some other people appreciated the info :P

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[–] softcat 138 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are going to be a lot of upset, worried, wealthy people in London today.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 82 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Found this on hacker news, some people there say this data dump is total bs and for the news page itself: It's an article from an Indian right wing conspiracy news website. Check out their other hard hitting journalism: https://archive.ph/8RGAb"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

The screenshot of files looks like an troll. I can't believe nobody is pointing this out.

I mean really. Who even names folders like that.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago

I give Anonymous credit on one thing: they're always punching upwards.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wonder what's in the trump folder

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It may be trump in it but it says krasnov on it.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Nothing. 2 CMD prompt outputs of possible vulnerabilities, nothing concrete at all

thats all under "Leaked Data of Donald Trump"

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

There's a twitter thread. An account named 'Anonymous France' has posted this link : https://www.mediafire.com/file/9prdor8m7a1z9f6/Leaked+Data+of+corrupt+officials.rar/file . Cannot verify the veracity of this information, but there was a r/worldnews thread saying that's its mostly worthless. This news site is known for peddling fake news, so it might be a whole lot of nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (3 children)

There is nothing under the trump folder except 2 pics of possible vulnerabilities from a CMD prompt. Maybe some stuff in other data, but the trump folder is bust

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is Agent Krasnov on the list?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago

Trump had a folder on the picture of folders.

I don't know any more than that.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Someone please look into the Trump folder and tell us what is there

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

Nothing. 2 CMD prompt outputs of possible vulnerabilities, nothing concrete at all

thats all under "Leaked Data of Donald Trump"

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[–] dubyakay 13 points 6 days ago

Need to look under "K"

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[–] rbesfe 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How is this obvious AI slop getting upvoted so much?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

After the Panama Papers and similar leaks, people are ready to believe some kind of anonymous hacker collective is still out there investigating and releasing information. So they'll jump on the headline, because it resonates with their memories of historical incidents. They won't interrogate it, because they're not in the position to sift fact from fiction.

This is one of the problems with Upvote-based news aggregators to begin with. You're asking people to make evaluations of an article's interest at the headline level, rather than relying on editors and ombudsmen to sift out what information is both credible and interesting to a wide audience.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Site is not loading on my side

[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 days ago

Surely this means Lemmy has finally reached critical mass and we're slashdotting other sites now. /s

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy's insignificant caress.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Lemmy's finger up the butt

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (10 children)

I'd download this but I'm worried it could also contain some form of advanced spyware, and my "security computer" needs a new screen cable at the moment.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

they should release magnets of chunks of the data

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