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Dana White tells hackers to "do it again," hackers respond with multiple attacks to White, UFC.tv [UPDATED]
Jan 27, 2012 - 5:00:17 PM Dana White tells hackers to "do it again," hackers respond with multiple attacks to White, UFC.tv [UPDATED]

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

Dana White and the UFC continue to support the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills in congress, on their end because of a desire to fight piracy, but he may be getting into a fight he's not entirely ready for. After hackers went after UFC.com this weekend, White expressed no concern, and on Thursday he went commented on it again with a little more fervor.

"Keep hacking our site," White said Thursday (transcribed by MMAFighting.com. "Do it again. Do it tonight... I'm not eBay. My website goes down for two days? Okay, our website goes down for two days. We'll fix it. You're not hurting me by taking my website down."

Well, that urging to "do it again" led not to another attack on UFC.com, but one on Dana White himself. @JoshTheGod, the head of UGNazi.com who claimed responsibility for the UFC.com hack, upped the ante on Thursday night, releasing personal information of White's, including his social security number, his address, and more.

That may only strengthen the argument Dana White attempted to make earlier in the day, when he referred to these hackers as "terrorists."

"Is SOPA the perfect bill?" White said. "No, it's not. The only thing that we're focused on is piracy. Piracy is stealing. If you walk into a store and steal a f--kin' gold watch, it's the same as stealing a pay-per-view. I don't care what your twisted, demented idea of stealing is.

"These guys look like terrorists now... a bill that was about to die, it's about to come back... I've always said this about the Internet: It's a place where cowards live. It's a place we're cowards live. You don't scare me. You don't scare me."

Penick's Analysis: Obviously releasing White's personal information is not the way to get the UFC to change it's stance on SOPA. It's good that White recognizes that the bill isn't perfect, and they're clearly only on board with it to attack piracy, but SOPA and PIPA are not the way to go after piracy. There are laws on the books now that, if more properly enforced, could do a better job at curbing piracy than these bills would, and the censorship issue that comes along with them - not to mention the lack of due process involved - is at the heart of discontent over them. This retaliatory hack and the releasing of White's information is absolutely the wrong way to make a point, but it should show White that there are even worse things some people can do other than taking his site down.

UPDATE: After getting into a conversation with members of the group known as "Anonymous" over Twitter on Thursday, White's urging of them to "do it again" has led to another hack of the UFC. While White was adamant that no one's information was taken in the UFC.com URL switch this weekend, this new hack also revealed vulnerabilities to their system, as it went into UFC.tv. A report at Softpedia.com gave some more information about the hack, including a comment from the hacker themselves:

This morning, S3rver.exe, the hacker who not long ago breached Sony Pictures and who's currently helping out Anonymous hackers, along with others, breached UFC.com and UFC.tv, defacing some of their webpages...

"I hacked those 2 sites this morning. One of them has 60+ vulnerabilities and ufc.tv has XSS, BlindSQL Injection and other vulnerabilities," the hacker said.

[Dana White art by Travis Beaven (c) MMATorch.com]