Posts by smallbang

Go away, kid, you bother me: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla kick W3C nerds to the curb

Active cyber incident

If anybody else can confirm it as South Korean, then the code they propose for adoption by browser publishers should be security audited. They appear to be focused on 'payments'

https://github.com/w3c

The dot org

The 'W3C's dot org is registered with a french registrar and with no mailing address

https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=w3c.org

Korean endeavor

The "w3c.org" mail (ETRI-AS-KR) appears to be routed to a south korean entity described as 'Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute':

https://ipinfo.io/AS3748

It does have the looks of a Google pakistani "free energy" type of hoax, same as ISOC.

THEY

OPEC most likely... :)

There is a movie where the Google brand is visible. So it's probably about an east-asian sponsorship of a major industrial hack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5AkySgiGA

Browsers using W3C-anything should be flagged.

If it looks fake then it's probably fake. Very, very questionable conduct:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5AkySgiGA