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02 March 2006
The Decline and Fall of Irhabi007: Episode Three, The Internet (pg. 1)

It was January of 2004, and Irhabi007 was an active member of the al-Palsm and al-Erhap forums. He was as blood-thirsty as they get, was involved in the usual cyber-crimes like software piracy, he presented himself, and was accept by his community as, an expert in all things internet security related. He was self-assured, arrogant and paranoid (as opposed to merely cautious).

28 January 2004


my brothers, I am almost sure that there is a spy in our forum. His IP is 62.233.243.116 and he is registered in Poland...

Let the games begin...

As it turned out, Irhabi007 didn't much care for the attention we lavished upon him, and he created two .tk domains for the purpose of recruiting others to launch attacks against the Internet Haganah site:

http://anti-haganah.tk
http://antihaganah.tk

He probably wasn't the first jihadi webmaster to use the .tk redirection service to hide the actual location of his website, but he certainly did his best to popularize the technique. In any event it doesn't work very well, leading to predictable results:

27 February 2004


Episode One, The Name | Episode Two, The Bust
Episode Three, The Internet: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4

Posted on 02 March 2006 @ 13:37