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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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I've come across another website that was shut down because of both SOPA and PIPA. What the heck is PIPA?
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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PIPA is SOPA's sister - but with a better arse. 
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Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:46 pm |
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ProfessorF
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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Wikipedia's got a page on it all.  PIPA is the Intellectual Property number they've dreamt up, basically.
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Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:48 pm |
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:17 am Posts: 5550 Location: Nottingham
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I just read the whole thing as:- companies with ageing business models who have been succeeded by technology (paper publishers, record companies, etc) want to turn off the internet.
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Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:50 am |
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Spreadie
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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Like the Dinosaurs, trying to fight extinction. Darwin ftw.
_________________ Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
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rustybucket
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Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5837
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Seeing as ICANN is an American company, and subject to a corrupt US legislature, those companies actually can.
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Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:49 pm |
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lumbthelesser
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Joined: Fri May 21, 2010 11:38 pm Posts: 442 Location: Manchester
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_________________ According to a recent poll, over 70% of Americans don't believe Trump's hair was born in the USA.
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Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:55 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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And the first big casualty is... Mega Upload.
4% of the internet just got arrested and faces up to 50 years jail time (sic)
And they were based in Hong Kong?
Team America - World Police.
It's time to tell ICANN it CAN'T and start an EMEA / APAC / RoW Internet.
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Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:02 am |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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http://gawker.com/5877707/ |  |  |  | Quote: The Evil New Tactic Behind Anonymous’ Massive Revenge Attack The hacktivist collective Anonymous is in the middle of a huge revenge spree after the Feds shut down popular filesharing site MegaUpload. But they're using an evil new tactic that appears to be boosting their firepower by exploiting people who simply click a link.
The Department of Justice, MPAA and Universal Music websites have all been taken down in the past hour, part of Operation Megaload, which is shaping up to be the biggest Anonymous campaign in months.
Here's one reason they've been able to muster so much firepower: Anonymous members are distributing a link that ropes internet users into an illegal DDoS attack against these websites simply by clicking it. The link is being shared widely on Twitter and in Anonymous chat rooms, often with no context except that it relates to Operation Megaload. I clicked it a few minutes ago because it was being spammed in an Anonymous chatroom and found myself instantly DDoSing Universalmusic.com, my computer rapidly pinging the page with no way to stop except quickly closing the window.
The link is a page on the anonymous web hosting site pastehtml. It link loads a web-based version of the program Anonymous has used for years to DDoS websites: Low Orbit Ion Cannon. (LOIC). LOIC rapidly reloads a target website, and if enough users point LOIC at a site at once, it can crash from the traffic. Juding from a Twitter search, the link is being shared at a rate of about 4 times a minute, mostly by Spanish-speaking users, for some reason. (Here's a link to the Twitter search, just don't click the PasteHTML link.)
The thing is, DDoSing is a criminal offense that could earn you 10 years in prison. With previous versions of LOIC, participants had to acknowledge the risk and press a button labeled "fire." But now, it appears some enterprising anonymous member has retooled it so that no input is required outside of clicking a link and leaving a window open.
This is completely evil and could lead to huge numbers of witless internet users committing felonies by clicking a poorly-labeled link they stumble across on Twitter. It also renders today's attacks largely meaningless. Anonymous' previous attacks had what political power they had because they were acts of conscious protest; participants knew what they were getting into. This recent round seems to be not much better than a Facebook worm. The safest thing now would be to avoid clicking anything to do with operation megaload or Anonymous—especially if it's a mysterious Pastehtml link. |  |  |  |  |
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Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:10 am |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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Unlike SOPA which is exploiting everyone who doesn't click on a link. This has the potential to reach a proper war-like status. "You're either with us, or against us. Where do you stand?"
_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:54 am |
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l3v1ck
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Congress halts anti-piracy bill News CLICKY
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