We should probably stop using Imageshack

[Drooling Iguana]

Imageshack seems to be replacing any image hosted on their site with the following: image too large to inline.

imageshack

Proudly presents...

Anti-sec. We're a movement dedicated to the eradication of full-disclosure. We wanted to give everyone an image of what we're all about.

Full-disclosure is the disclosure of exploits publicly - anywhere. The security industry uses full-disclosure to profit and develop scare-tactics to convince people into buying their firewalls, anti-virus software and auditing services.

Meanwhile, script kiddies copy and paste these exploits and compile them, ready to strike any and all vulnerable servers they can get a hold of. If whitehats were truly about security this stuff would not be published, not even exploits with silly edits to make them slightly unusable.

As an added bonus, if publication wasn't enough, these exploits are mirrored and distributed widely across the Internet with a nice little advertisement embedded in them for the crew or website which first exposed the vulnerability to the public.

It's about money. While the world is difficult to change, and money will certainly continue to be very important in the eyes of many, our battle is that of the removal of full-disclosure for the purpose of making it harder for the security industry to exploit its consequences.

It is our goal that, through mayhem and the destruction of all exploitive and detrimental communities, companies, and individuals, full-disclosure will be abandoned and the security industry will be forced to reform.

How do we plan to achieve this? Through the full and unrelenting, unmerciful elimination of all supporters of full-disclosure and the security industry in its present form. If you own a security blog, an exploit publication website or you distribute and exploits... "you are a target and you will be rm'd. Only a matter of time."

This isn't like before This time everyone and everything is getting owned.

Signed: The Anti-sec Movement

No images were harmed in the making of this... image.

I've seen a fair bit of macho Internet posturing over silly grievances in my day but this is ridiculous, and quite possibly illegal (as it contains language that could be interpreted as death threats.)

[Vympel]

I have no idea what the hell they're even talking about. And it's fucking annoying. It better go away soon.

[Vehrec]

I think they've been hacked by an ... anti-hacker bunch of hackers that think internet security is a scam? I don't know what's going on, I just read that damn mass of verbiage and it still makes no sense.

[Resinence]

Imageshack got hacked by retards who think that keeping new security bugs hidden will cut down on exploits, ie 'security by obscurity'. Lame internet tough-guy posturing by people with nothing better to do, considering skiddies aren't even the biggest security threat in general and that never making them public will just mean the sec companies can sell them back to vendors before they can patch them or force it underground so people have no idea what is out there.

[General Zod]

I stopped using imageshack months and months ago, ever since they changed the layout they give your links in. I use Tinypic almost exclusively these days.

[Darth Lucifer]

ImageShack Hacked by Anti-sec Movement
July 10th, 2009 | by Pete Cashmore

ImageShack, one of the web’s largest image hosts, was attacked tonight by a movement called “Anti-Sec”. The result of the attack has been to replace all ImageShack hosted images with a manifesto for the movement (below).

The message adds that “no images were harmed in the making of this…image”, implying that ImageShack images are not lost.

We’ll post updates as we learn more: please add your own experiences in the comments.

Source: http://mashable.com/2009/07/10/imageshack-hacked/

Here is an image of the "manifesto" Anti-Sec left behind in place of the photos of thousands of ImageShack users:

[CmdrWilkens]

Already posted

[Frank Hipper]

Fucking bunch of dickheads and idiots.

All vandalism (even if temporary) is going to do is breed contempt in the very sector they're trying to reach.
Idiotic.

EDIT- Topic from OT merged with this one.