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points by avidruntime 1 day ago | 0 comments

I wonder if the redirect target is region based, because my redirect took me to the fake Github page. I'm in the US. A fake RT article rhymes with the well established doppelganger propaganda campaign, which could rationalize why it would be region based. The irony of the doppelganger campaign being a Russian state-sponsored campaign is not lost on me.

[–] tyrabound 1 day ago

Without clear and irrefutable evidence, which is nearly impossible, the Vault 7 releases should have been more than adequate to quell any doubts that you can believe any kind of claim of foreign campaigns. Why would a V Russian operation link to a fake RT site? A discerning individual world always anime that whatever you are being directed towards is the least likely accurate/correct thing.

[–] qingcharles 1 day ago

This sounds like the same hack that took over btdig.com -- some weird sort of region-based redirect that doesn't affect everyone.

[in fact, I just tried btdig.com and it tried to redirect me to the same site: guillible-thanks.com or whatever]

[–] iam-py-test 14 hours ago

btdig wasn't hacked. The owner (same person at AT) added an advertising redirect in July.

[–] qingcharles 14 hours ago

How are you determining that they have the same owner?

[–] iam-py-test 13 hours ago

There is a lot of shared infrastructure between archive.today and btdig.com. For example, btdig is often hosted on the same IP as AT. The sites engage in the same behavior. Both sites engaged in DDoS attacks against gyrovague.com earlier this year. In June, both sites redirected Wikipedia users to Tehran Times. In July, both sites started redirecting to advertising sites. I have other evidence I can't share publicly, but the public evidence alone is sufficient to confirm a link.

[–] qingcharles 10 hours ago

Interesting. I didn't know that, thank you.