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There is a malicious actor phoning in bogus threats to police to trigger armed responses on innocent people's homes.
"SWAT'ing" has around for a decade. In the last two years, it has become very common. I cannot think of a single online entity (myself included) who has not been visited by police under totally bogus pretenses which were deliberately instigated by a bad actor.
In a sane world, this would be ignored. From experience, not publicizing these things has stopped them from happening. However, those responsible have picked targets with political and financial interests in this attention. They will take this event and blast it out as loudly as possible to embolden and grow their support base. The truth of who is behind it no longer matters, and the perpetrator becomes whoever/whatever is most convenient.
Even this community makes these irrational assumptions. Every time another person says they've been targeted, people jump to accuse them of doing it to themselves. This is also very unlikely.
These actions are felonies and can carry attempted murder charges. They are not being done haphazardly and the targets are not being picked arbitrarily. In the reports I've seen, the perpetrator is using a modern text-to-speech voice synthesizer to respond to 911 operators in real time, to where it becomes indistinguishable from human conversation. This façade convinces the operator the call is genuine without compromising the perpetrator's identity.
This is a recurrent threat and not random happenstance. I can handle men in drag screaming about us. I am not sure I can handle this. There is a person - or group of people - committing serious felonies almost every day using sophisticated masks in an effort to draw fire on us. I can't stop it, the Government can't stop it, and the victims don't care about the truth. The Twitter mob will take any problem and opportunistically use it against us. Congresswoman Greene did not take one second to think about threats attributed to the forum before accepting them as true and demanding we be shut down by force of law on television.
At this moment, nobody is talking to us. None of our service providers are answering emails. Congresswoman Greene, her staffers, and the police have not reached out. This extortion racket is being pulled off successfully. I worry that those parties now believe we should be sacrificed just to get this threat to stop. It is probably easier for the powers-that-be to kill the site than it is for the police to find and stop whoever is doing this.
Our recent downtime has not been due to a DDoS attack. Upstream service is faltering randomly and I can't get anyone to explain why. The DDoS attack from the troon squad has been mitigated since it started on Friday. The outages seem completely unrelated.
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/a-statement-regarding-the-august-2022-swat-hoaxes.128186/
"SWAT'ing" has around for a decade. In the last two years, it has become very common. I cannot think of a single online entity (myself included) who has not been visited by police under totally bogus pretenses which were deliberately instigated by a bad actor.
In a sane world, this would be ignored. From experience, not publicizing these things has stopped them from happening. However, those responsible have picked targets with political and financial interests in this attention. They will take this event and blast it out as loudly as possible to embolden and grow their support base. The truth of who is behind it no longer matters, and the perpetrator becomes whoever/whatever is most convenient.
Even this community makes these irrational assumptions. Every time another person says they've been targeted, people jump to accuse them of doing it to themselves. This is also very unlikely.
These actions are felonies and can carry attempted murder charges. They are not being done haphazardly and the targets are not being picked arbitrarily. In the reports I've seen, the perpetrator is using a modern text-to-speech voice synthesizer to respond to 911 operators in real time, to where it becomes indistinguishable from human conversation. This façade convinces the operator the call is genuine without compromising the perpetrator's identity.
This is a recurrent threat and not random happenstance. I can handle men in drag screaming about us. I am not sure I can handle this. There is a person - or group of people - committing serious felonies almost every day using sophisticated masks in an effort to draw fire on us. I can't stop it, the Government can't stop it, and the victims don't care about the truth. The Twitter mob will take any problem and opportunistically use it against us. Congresswoman Greene did not take one second to think about threats attributed to the forum before accepting them as true and demanding we be shut down by force of law on television.
At this moment, nobody is talking to us. None of our service providers are answering emails. Congresswoman Greene, her staffers, and the police have not reached out. This extortion racket is being pulled off successfully. I worry that those parties now believe we should be sacrificed just to get this threat to stop. It is probably easier for the powers-that-be to kill the site than it is for the police to find and stop whoever is doing this.
Our recent downtime has not been due to a DDoS attack. Upstream service is faltering randomly and I can't get anyone to explain why. The DDoS attack from the troon squad has been mitigated since it started on Friday. The outages seem completely unrelated.
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/a-statement-regarding-the-august-2022-swat-hoaxes.128186/
Kiwi Farms
A Statement Regarding the August 2022 SWAT Hoaxes
There is a malicious actor phoning in bogus threats to police to trigger armed responses on innocent people's homes.
"SWAT'ing" has around for a decade. In the last two years, it has become very...
"SWAT'ing" has around for a decade. In the last two years, it has become very...
August 25
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>site just barely is staying online
>8000 people immediately decide to check it out at once because of the drama
>8000 people immediately decide to check it out at once because of the drama
August 25
The prognosis of the site is much better today than it was yesterday.
Our services are coming online again on their own, and I have managed to schedule some calls with providers. Third parties have also reached out to offer help and I now have Plan Bs and Cs for every part of our current stack. I'm working on getting the site split across entirely different datacenters.
In an effort to shut down what they call a 'harassment and stalking site', our opposition has put together a list of third parties vaguely affiliated with me. They have vowed to endlessly harass them, and their customers, until they are forced to discontinue service for us. These people range from direct service providers for the website, to registered agents who scan my mail, to my mother (because they are just incels in drag who hate women more than anything).
They have tried to justify this behavior by claiming we "do not respond to anything except fear." What I fear more than losing my site, being sued, or dealing with police is living in a world where fat eunuchs can groom little boys into castrating themselves and nobody is allowed to say anything about it.
The tide of public opinion is turning more against people like this every day. The ruse is crumbling, in no small part due to the most visible trans advocates. Thanks to people like Keffals loudly pushing surgery for children and drugs without parental consent, everyone can plainly see them for what they are: deranged perverts.
Our services are coming online again on their own, and I have managed to schedule some calls with providers. Third parties have also reached out to offer help and I now have Plan Bs and Cs for every part of our current stack. I'm working on getting the site split across entirely different datacenters.
In an effort to shut down what they call a 'harassment and stalking site', our opposition has put together a list of third parties vaguely affiliated with me. They have vowed to endlessly harass them, and their customers, until they are forced to discontinue service for us. These people range from direct service providers for the website, to registered agents who scan my mail, to my mother (because they are just incels in drag who hate women more than anything).
They have tried to justify this behavior by claiming we "do not respond to anything except fear." What I fear more than losing my site, being sued, or dealing with police is living in a world where fat eunuchs can groom little boys into castrating themselves and nobody is allowed to say anything about it.
The tide of public opinion is turning more against people like this every day. The ruse is crumbling, in no small part due to the most visible trans advocates. Thanks to people like Keffals loudly pushing surgery for children and drugs without parental consent, everyone can plainly see them for what they are: deranged perverts.
August 26
The domain now has a message instead of just an error page. If you've followed the messages here, there's no new information to report.
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Downtime Update as of August 26th, 2022
The forum is down because upstream ISPs have blackholed routes to our network. When a computer tries to connect to our servers, the global network has no way to reach them. This is a deliberate action from our host.
They are not answering my emails and I do not know why this has been done. However, prior to going down, we were being targeted by a DDoS attack and other forms of attempted network intrusion. It is likely that these efforts disrupted the entire ISP and forced them to blackhole our network to protect other customers from disruption.
In an ideal situation, they will restore access eventually on their own. I am working on securing the network from DDoS attacks in the mean time. Other service providers are working on a solution which may restore access in the next few days.
Regardless of what happens, I will decentralize our setup across multiple datacenters. In the near future, there will be no single point of failure. Since I acquired my own network, I have been stubborn and complacent in thinking that such a solution would be permanent. I've been aware of this single point of failure, but decided to ignore it, mostly because decentralization would be expensive.
I have received extremely generous offers of support in the last few days. Long-term plans are being developed to keep the site up. However, it's unlikely anything can happen before Monday.
I will keep in touch on Telegram. If that goes down, I will be on Poast.
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Downtime Update as of August 26th, 2022
The forum is down because upstream ISPs have blackholed routes to our network. When a computer tries to connect to our servers, the global network has no way to reach them. This is a deliberate action from our host.
They are not answering my emails and I do not know why this has been done. However, prior to going down, we were being targeted by a DDoS attack and other forms of attempted network intrusion. It is likely that these efforts disrupted the entire ISP and forced them to blackhole our network to protect other customers from disruption.
In an ideal situation, they will restore access eventually on their own. I am working on securing the network from DDoS attacks in the mean time. Other service providers are working on a solution which may restore access in the next few days.
Regardless of what happens, I will decentralize our setup across multiple datacenters. In the near future, there will be no single point of failure. Since I acquired my own network, I have been stubborn and complacent in thinking that such a solution would be permanent. I've been aware of this single point of failure, but decided to ignore it, mostly because decentralization would be expensive.
I have received extremely generous offers of support in the last few days. Long-term plans are being developed to keep the site up. However, it's unlikely anything can happen before Monday.
I will keep in touch on Telegram. If that goes down, I will be on Poast.
August 27
Live with Rekieta Law on YouTube in 30 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP92u3ld1-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP92u3ld1-w
YouTube
The Null Position
Joshua Moon is the alleged owner of the notorious website Kiwi Farms.
Kiwi Farms has been at the center of an ongoing controversy at the hands of angry people of questionable mental health orchestrating a campaign to take them down.
A true David and…
Kiwi Farms has been at the center of an ongoing controversy at the hands of angry people of questionable mental health orchestrating a campaign to take them down.
A true David and…
August 27
August 28th, 2022
A resourceful network engineer managed to tunnel our server so we could get a completely up-to-date copy of the database and attachments. Even in a worst case scenario, there will be no data loss.
If you want to send him some sats for a new laptop, his wallet is 17dnK5LdCb9zsBB9yjFtKTs2myVr6J8aZQ.
If I don't hear good news from upstream by tomorrow, I will prepare to leave them behind. The mob on Twitter is promising a final solution to the Kiwi Farms on Monday at the same time. If that is not an empty threat, this might be coming to a head tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night ...
https://youtu.be/LonKGuS9uuQ
A resourceful network engineer managed to tunnel our server so we could get a completely up-to-date copy of the database and attachments. Even in a worst case scenario, there will be no data loss.
If you want to send him some sats for a new laptop, his wallet is 17dnK5LdCb9zsBB9yjFtKTs2myVr6J8aZQ.
If I don't hear good news from upstream by tomorrow, I will prepare to leave them behind. The mob on Twitter is promising a final solution to the Kiwi Farms on Monday at the same time. If that is not an empty threat, this might be coming to a head tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night ...
https://youtu.be/LonKGuS9uuQ
YouTube
South Park: La resistance
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August 28
August 29
August 31
Cloudflare's decision to block the site was done without any discussion. The message I've received is a vague suspension notice. The message from Matthew Prince is unclear. If there is any threat to life on the site, I have received no communication from any law enforcement.
It is early morning hours here. I am going to repair the Tor URL tonight before going back to bed. My thoughts will be articulated better in the morning.
It is early morning hours here. I am going to repair the Tor URL tonight before going back to bed. My thoughts will be articulated better in the morning.
September 3
<https://kiwifarms.ru>
<http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd.onion/>
.ONION URLs can only be opened with Tor.
<https://www.torproject.org/> can access Tor, or
<https://brave.com/> and open a Tor tab with ALT+SHIFT+N
There's various issues with both mirrors. I can't do anymore tonight.
<http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd.onion/>
.ONION URLs can only be opened with Tor.
<https://www.torproject.org/> can access Tor, or
<https://brave.com/> and open a Tor tab with ALT+SHIFT+N
There's various issues with both mirrors. I can't do anymore tonight.
Kiwi Farms
Community dedicated to discussing eccentric people who voluntarily make fools of themselves. Explore abnormal psychology and the minds of Internet crazies
September 4
September 4
September 5
In my life, there is a family emergency. It has absolutely nothing to do with the forum drama. I cannot and will not elaborate further. There will be a week or more where I am completely unavailable and it is likely the site will go down during this time where I will not be able to bring it up.
I want to appraise our situation frankly.
Domain Registrar
Cloudflare was both our application-level DDoS mitigation and our domain registrar. They have given me a way to transfer my domains to another registrar. I do not know what registrar to send it to because I do not have faith in any company.
DDoS Mitigation
DDoS-Guard will drop us dropped us while I was writing this post. This meme about Russia being a free country is a joke. The US is a free country, but with no stewards to protect it. Without the US, there is no second best. I did not expect Cloudflare to crumple so quickly and I don't have a Plan C for DDoS mitigation.
Resource Allocation
I own IP addresses. Our IP allocation is from APNIC. APNIC is one of the 5 private companies which allocate Internet resources around the world. APNIC happens to be based out of Australia, which recently passed draconian censorship laws. There is an effort to get our RIR to revoke our allocation. This would be unprecedented in the history of the Internet, and considering China is in APNIC's region, an absolutely horrific standard which will echo throughout the upcoming decades. There is a non-zero chance of this happening.
Hosting
We have one host and I am looking at two more. It is likely that the host will give up too. The two hosts confident they can handle the Kiwi Farms are probably wrong. DDoS-Guard was confident they could handle the Kiwi Farms and said "bring it on" for less than 24 hours.
This is an organized attack. There is a coalition of criminals trying to frame the forum for their behavior. These criminals provide opportunities for professional victims to amplify their message. Journalists canonize the crimes as the behavior of the forum itself, which becomes the effective truth for the general public.
This is a machine that was built up formerly against 8chan and activates any time the cathedral wants to test the new fronts of its censorship. It is a massive amalgamation of various interests. I am one person. The financial limitations aren't even the real problem - the problem is, I am powerless alone. There is no amount of money I can throw to convince people to be brave and be free. This is just the reality of our country.
And what this machine will not accept is compromise. If I censored specific kinds of behavior, it would not matter. They don't want a specific thing censored. They want the average person to be able to speak in channels where only specific thoughts are acceptable.
More importantly, they want to make it so that no small organization can host a service which threatens the cathedral. It used to be that one guy with a good idea could open a platform and be a Tom Anderson, Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Fulp, Christopher Poole, or Richard Kyanka. Take note these names are all from 10+ years ago. There are no new groundbreakers online anymore because breaking ground in the new Internet's corporate parking lot is not allowed.
I do not see a situation where the Kiwi Farms is simply allowed to operate. It will either become a fractured shell of itself, like 8chan, or jump between hosts and domain names like Daily Stormer.
http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd.onion/threads/the-endless-drum-beating.129023/
Accessible via <https://www.torproject.org/download/> OR
Press ALT+SHIFT+N on Brave <https://brave.com/download/>
I want to appraise our situation frankly.
Domain Registrar
Cloudflare was both our application-level DDoS mitigation and our domain registrar. They have given me a way to transfer my domains to another registrar. I do not know what registrar to send it to because I do not have faith in any company.
DDoS Mitigation
DDoS-Guard will drop us dropped us while I was writing this post. This meme about Russia being a free country is a joke. The US is a free country, but with no stewards to protect it. Without the US, there is no second best. I did not expect Cloudflare to crumple so quickly and I don't have a Plan C for DDoS mitigation.
Resource Allocation
I own IP addresses. Our IP allocation is from APNIC. APNIC is one of the 5 private companies which allocate Internet resources around the world. APNIC happens to be based out of Australia, which recently passed draconian censorship laws. There is an effort to get our RIR to revoke our allocation. This would be unprecedented in the history of the Internet, and considering China is in APNIC's region, an absolutely horrific standard which will echo throughout the upcoming decades. There is a non-zero chance of this happening.
Hosting
We have one host and I am looking at two more. It is likely that the host will give up too. The two hosts confident they can handle the Kiwi Farms are probably wrong. DDoS-Guard was confident they could handle the Kiwi Farms and said "bring it on" for less than 24 hours.
This is an organized attack. There is a coalition of criminals trying to frame the forum for their behavior. These criminals provide opportunities for professional victims to amplify their message. Journalists canonize the crimes as the behavior of the forum itself, which becomes the effective truth for the general public.
This is a machine that was built up formerly against 8chan and activates any time the cathedral wants to test the new fronts of its censorship. It is a massive amalgamation of various interests. I am one person. The financial limitations aren't even the real problem - the problem is, I am powerless alone. There is no amount of money I can throw to convince people to be brave and be free. This is just the reality of our country.
And what this machine will not accept is compromise. If I censored specific kinds of behavior, it would not matter. They don't want a specific thing censored. They want the average person to be able to speak in channels where only specific thoughts are acceptable.
More importantly, they want to make it so that no small organization can host a service which threatens the cathedral. It used to be that one guy with a good idea could open a platform and be a Tom Anderson, Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Fulp, Christopher Poole, or Richard Kyanka. Take note these names are all from 10+ years ago. There are no new groundbreakers online anymore because breaking ground in the new Internet's corporate parking lot is not allowed.
I do not see a situation where the Kiwi Farms is simply allowed to operate. It will either become a fractured shell of itself, like 8chan, or jump between hosts and domain names like Daily Stormer.
http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd.onion/threads/the-endless-drum-beating.129023/
Accessible via <https://www.torproject.org/download/> OR
Press ALT+SHIFT+N on Brave <https://brave.com/download/>
www.torproject.org
The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.
September 5
https://kiwifarms.top/
我很高兴地宣布我们重新上线了。别问我多久！
The site is down because there's something wrong with the .TOP domain. We are maneuvering.
我很高兴地宣布我们重新上线了。别问我多久！
The site is down because there's something wrong with the .TOP domain. We are maneuvering.
September 6
I made the allegation that compromised accounts with weak passwords were being used to post violent threats instead of actual community members. I'd like to prove this.
1. We are receiving hundreds of login attempts a second from automated traffic.
2. hCaptcha, the tool we used to help mitigate bot traffic on the login page, received enough complaints from the mob that they dropped us, making it significantly more difficult to deal with this threat.
This is an organized framing campaign and no matter what happens I want you to know these people are fucking scum and should never be given the benefit of a doubt.
1. We are receiving hundreds of login attempts a second from automated traffic.
2. hCaptcha, the tool we used to help mitigate bot traffic on the login page, received enough complaints from the mob that they dropped us, making it significantly more difficult to deal with this threat.
This is an organized framing campaign and no matter what happens I want you to know these people are fucking scum and should never be given the benefit of a doubt.
September 6
I've done all I can for tonight, so here's your sitrep:
https://kiwifarms.top is up for IPv6 chads ONLY (i.e. your phone probably can open it). I don't know why.
The onion is up.
http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd.onion/
https://kiwifarms.top is up for IPv6 chads ONLY (i.e. your phone probably can open it). I don't know why.
The onion is up.
http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd.onion/
September 6
I don't like addressing Twitter retards but I love this tweet because it's so mask off.
This has not a single thing to do with the purported causus belli: swatting, irl harassment, or 'justice' for anyone - these are all lies.
It's about deranged perverts memory holing their tweets where they said they wanted to rape women.
I'm not going to lie and say I know for sure we'll make it through this absolute shitstorm (you don't know the half of it: there are bloomberg journos digging through my attorney's trashbins).
However, I recommit to this promise:
If I deem the site a total loss, I will anonymize the forum content and put it in a torrent. Every single person who wants a complete copy of all 7TiB of forum data will be able to get it and do whatever they want with it.
I'll even provide a little handbook with things I've learned over the years and some advice.
After all, I inherited the forum myself.
This has not a single thing to do with the purported causus belli: swatting, irl harassment, or 'justice' for anyone - these are all lies.
It's about deranged perverts memory holing their tweets where they said they wanted to rape women.
I'm not going to lie and say I know for sure we'll make it through this absolute shitstorm (you don't know the half of it: there are bloomberg journos digging through my attorney's trashbins).
However, I recommit to this promise:
If I deem the site a total loss, I will anonymize the forum content and put it in a torrent. Every single person who wants a complete copy of all 7TiB of forum data will be able to get it and do whatever they want with it.
I'll even provide a little handbook with things I've learned over the years and some advice.
After all, I inherited the forum myself.
September 6
September 7
September 8