The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by Drakim on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:45AM (#22066204)

Quick question, who makes that embedded image, the FBI? It has a specific WeLeakInfo logo on it, so it's not just a standard image they can reuse with each domain seizure.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by dqv on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:55AM (#22066326)

My assumption is that it's an exported slide from an FBI powerpoint presentation.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by rootsudo on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:21PM (#22066621)

Hah. That's good.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by mbreedlove on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:11PM (#22066525)

I think it's interesting they embed the image as base64. I guess a single file deployment is easier.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by krapp on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:47AM (#22066227)

The background might be a standard template, and they just have someone paste a logo onto another layer.

The question I have is why paste it in as a data URL rather than just upload the image to the server, if they control the server?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by dariusiurca on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:50AM (#22066262)

Maybe they do not control the origin server, only the domain and it would be easier just to redirect everyone using DNS.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by jagged-chisel on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:08PM (#22066479)

So the FBI controls the server to which the domain now points ...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by wizzwizz4 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:11PM (#22068985)

Easier to just have all requests respond with exactly the same HTTP response, or something, based on the requested domain.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by dariusiurca on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:48AM (#22066240)

They are not so consistent with what image they use for seized domains but in some cases like this one they use the website's logo.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by jannes on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:19PM (#22066594)

The logos of the law enforcement agencies probably change every time as well. This one shows the logos of German, English, Irish, Dutch and US law enforcement agencies.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The WeLeakInfo.com website is actually seized by the FBI by ma2rten on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:07PM (#22066472)

I assume they made a custom one in this case because they wanted/needed to highlight their international collaborators for this investigation.

[ Parent | on HN ]