So to break down why VanwaTech is Significant - that’s a very long dig I can disclose if anyone has interest. With technical postsI tend to see very little traction here.
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8chan used Colocated Servers spread across a 20 x 1U server farm. CodeMonkey had the site running across a cluster with a database backend spread across this cluster. ( posts were made showing the servers being moved during the month of downtime before Jim Watkins testified before Congressional Committee ( closed door - no details )
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Q did multiple Q&A appearances that were largely meant to drastically increase traffic on 8chan. The CloudFlare network was tested & performance measured - more than once the outcome was entire segments of the CloudFlare CDN Network going offline. This was not offline in the context of only 8chan - the outages affected multiple CDN clients using CloudFlare ( included where i work ). During a late phase of these Q&A sessions - we saw the shooting blamed on 8chan and CloudFlare about-face and deplatform 8chan citing shooting. This was not a minor thing for CloudFlare. It violated Standard Uptime Agreements and forced renegotiations with many other clients concerned about free speech.
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8Kun comes back using VanwaTech as a CDN. VanwaTech rumored to host within Spartan Host https://spartanhost.org/ . From our side we watched Larger DDoS attacks take place than during the previous attacks on 8chan. What was more - the CDN was literally tracking routes through the DoD network subnet of 11.11.11.0 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks Lists 11.0.0.0/8 as DoD Intel Networks ) That’s not random chance. The number of hops? 17. How did a previously unknown VanwaTech suddenly handle attacks with a volume larger than CloudFlare, a MAJOR PROVIDER, could not handle? This doesn’t add up.
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Who is VanwaTech? Run by Nick Lam - it’s leveraging a Russian Company called DDoS Guard that we know was routing w DoD networks . That’s - extremely interesting. The routing was temporary in the early stagings of 8Kun network deployment. https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2020/10/23/exploring-8chans-hosting-infrastructure.html
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Direct Investigation. You can obtain a free VanwaTech OpenVPN profile to use as you wish. For 5$/mo you can also obtain a VPN “Account” that is billed monthly. Thing is - the paid VPN accounts Do Not Authenticate. By this I mean, literally, the OpenVPN profiles provided by VanwaTech do not authenticate the user. They work - they just don’t require login. They also are not user-based. Literally you can share the profiles around and anyone can use them. Not exactly a business model, right?
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This next part I have to be very careful about. I have methods of obtaining more information about VanwaTech and looked into the operating business license. I called repeatedly at random times. I believe Nick Lam is a cutout persona. Several Nick Lam characters of differing voices, statures, have been observed.
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I believe VanwaTech is a cutout company. To what affect I do not know - but I do intend to deploy a Hosting Service and approach VanwaTech for CDN services. Once I have a deployment in place I can truly investigate capabilities & likewise “Carry the Torch” that I believe White Hats set up for us. Why? People can talk mess about Q all they want - the core of all of this, us being here, The Great Awakening - Information Freedom. Q has cited John Perry Barlow, Assange, Snowden. If you failed to familiarize w Barlow please take the time to read Barlow’s A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace ( https://archive.ph/JNQqi ):
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.
This is about freedom to push Information. We can reduce these ideas to meme-fodder - we can’t let go of obtaining our capacity to protect ourselves & ideas from spreading online.
As such I wanted to disclose this information to this site as I have been uneasy with the ownership of this website and it’s use of CloudFlare.
CloudFlare has proven to NOT be of our mindset. Thus using CloudFlare as the CDN for greatawakening.win is suspect, far from ideal, and opens all of your metadata to any and all capacities for collection that CloudFlare & the apparatus behind it. Be Weary if this - practice OPSEC / CYBERSEC at all times.
Please keep us up to date on your findings. I have 2 VPNs and I don't trust either provider. So if there's a better way, I wanna use it.
Will do. I may be offering some methods for people to use soon in regard to freedom online.
The Vanwa guy is https://twitter.com/LimTheNick - his name is Nick Lim, not Lam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Lim_(entrepreneur)
I still have my browser history with the various shenanigans around the domain steals, host deplatforming and DDOS attacks from 2020 against what was 8chan, and what became 8kun after renaming, relaunch and many hosts and domains later. Many or even all of these attacks were seemingly initiated by (and certainly encouraged) by Fredrick Brennan aka 'hotwheels' who was at one time a system admin for 8chan and who appears to hold strong negative feeling about the Watkins, father and son.
https://twitter.com/fr_brennan/status/1318046001869910017
Being a guy that decided to throw himself into the limelight again apropos nothing had lots of people speculating that hotwheels was being bribed, blackmailed or simply threatened into taking these actions. And its also quite telling that so much evidence of criminal activity he posted to public twitter (and even disclosed in interviews he did with all the fake-news eager for anyone taking shots at the dastardly 'qanon') merited no action taken. Which again made him look like an asset working for deepstate actors, like Ray Eps, like antifa, like John Sullivan.. and many other examples.
Getting a good discussion going sooner rather than later is good since I'm sure all the details will only get rustier over time.
Agree with everything you said.
Thanks for the name correction. I derped
Wheels was interesting regarding Ron. Seemed Developer Indignant that Ron was able to come in and significantly modify his code and improve it. Sort of jealous.
The HBO documentary was actually pretty wild. Didn’t show an honest side to the Watkins guys. Seemed to be very carefully timed and supported.
I couldn't imagine HBO ever giving a fair hearing to any associates of 8ch, let alone its owners and operators.. was never on the cards.
Jim Watkins did a lot of livestreams and other video blog type posts around the time of the revival of 8kun in his characteristic goofy way, talking about lawsuit stuff, about project odin, about how happy he was with support from people, how stuff is running, all of that. His site is https://isitwetyet.com/
Like you, I'm waiting for the knife from cloudflare to be stuck into the .wins. A matter of if and not when I think, and I hope people like u/doggos have ready replacements & the process for cutover all figured out for when it comes.
Honestly I am uneasy that the cutoff has not already happened. I can't think of a ton of reasons to stay with CloudFlare.
What happened with Odin? Is that TS? Is it still in process? Or did it fall by the wayside?
No-one really knows. Supposedly its been completed enough for release for some time, but I haven't heard anything about it. It could be connected to TS or could simply be a more highly available and replicated 8kun, maybe with a blockchain type integration.
Since odin development was in a response to attacks, if it hasn't gone live yet I take that as a sign that attacks are no longer the problem they once were.. and its being kept in reserve.
Thanks!
Beautiful post, thank you. Jim Stone has called out Cloudflare. Q won't post on a compromised board, were they to post again.
I agree.
My expectation is a new “Q” type personna will come about
My focus is working on ways to pierce the veil and provide such safe places.
Watkins did that. The fact that Jim testified before the enemy and they refused to even release tidbits about the testimony says a hell of a lot. That’s a hell of a Q proof of sorts. Why didn’t they say a word about what he said?
Great post TY. Yes I recall the large DDOS attacks on 8 after they switched, interesting to note about the DoD IP's. Me too am wary of a lot of places now following the great purge of sites and content creators.
We continue forward, meme cannons to the left, meme cannons to the right, into the valley of death rode the frogs of the info war!
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Remember to archive offline.
I’ve been using archive.today and then locally saving pages / PDFs of research as I go.
I even use youtube-do to grab videos from online to store locally so those are also archived.
In 2008 I lost a ton of 9/11 research due to takedowns on WayBack etc. Learned my lesson there. Was a sweeping Homeland Security Purge.
Yeah a lot was lost in that purge. I think back fondly on the wild west days of the internet, free from most censorship, today it is but a shadow of its former self all under the guise of someone saying something another might find offensive!
Literally anything can be found offensive by anyone, it's the hijacking of language under the guise of "stay safe" waaaaaaaa.
It’s always going to be Wild West. It has steadily evolved so - tons of places exist to thrive. We are careful about linking to them in an effort to keep them safe.
I run my own chat servers for example. That’s sort of the model. Federated, safe, off the grid.
Yup.
Remember, "information wants to be free"? What happened?
Oh yeah, freedom is a bad thing and truth and light hurt the swamp dwellers too much, so they had to be silenced/suicided.
Very interesting. Thank you for posting.
Basic question: when you say cutout, do you mean shell? Or a known middleman? Or something else? Sorry, just never seen the term used like you did. Thanks.
Edit to add: thanks for the post. I appreciate the technical posts, I'm just behind the curve so I can't contribute meaningfully. Upvoted though.
Cutout in the way that there is a Personna that seems to be filled by multiple people at varying times. I wasn't sure for a bit on this and thought I was imagining things.
Gotcha. Thanks.