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Re:Don't blame LINUX by burnin1965 · 2005-10-02 06:19 · Score: 1 · on Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked

Well, actually you can take the same steps in linux to mitigate damage when you server is comprimised. But more importantly, it has more to do with taking those steps than running BSD versus linux. Before you start flaming take a look for yourself....

http://defaced.projectgamma.com/
http://www.zone-h.com/en/defacements

burnin

Re:Physical access! by BJH · 2005-01-24 21:55 · Score: 1 · on Just How Paranoid Are You?

Another option is to screw with the Ethernet connection to prevent the TX side of the connection working - see here for details.

From Denmark?! From DENMARK?! Hohum! by ArsenneLupin · 2004-12-13 05:06 · Score: 1 · on Software Patents Circumvent European Parliament

(I'm from Denmark)

CAN I HEAR FROM DENMARK PLEASE!
Sorry for screaming, it was stronger than me...

I sure would like to get kicked

And me too would like you to be kicked... by the very boot that you licked so slavishly!

Re:I'm sure he'll find a new job by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-25 18:11 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Author of Paper Critical of Microsoft is Fired

@Stake absorbed l0pht, which had serious hacker cred just a couple years ago.

Google suggests, for more background: this and this.

Re:Not yet... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-08-30 00:26 · Score: 3 · on More Threats From The MPAA

Finally... a story where this is *not* offtopic... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-05-19 20:38 · Score: 5 · on Oxford Yanks Student Page Over Spoof DeCSS

and I'm asleep at the keyboard. Doh!

Oh well... here it is.
Add your own, and spread this far and wide:

This announcement brought to you by the DeCSS Polar Bear.

Time for Slashdot to take a stand... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-04-05 03:12 · Score: 4 · on MPAA Files Another Injunction Against 2600

The following is a list of all the mirrors from the 2600 site.

Mirror from 2600 - probably will be gone soon by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-20 09:36 · Score: 0 · on MPAA Sending Out DMCA Demand Letters

Mirrors

http://www.multimania.com/sxpert/decss/

http://www.posexperts.com.pl/peopl e/wrobell/css/

http://www.koek.net/dvd

http://logical-solutions.com.au/DeCSS.zip

http://www.sarahandcasey.com/decss/

http://www.fsp.com

http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~echerry/dvd

http://people.mn.mediaone.net/bojay/s lashdot/

http://www.mafkees.com/dvd

http://members.tripod.com/donotsueme/

http://donotsueme.homepage.com

http://donotsueme.freeservers.com/

http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~marsie/

http://dB.org/dvd/

http://dcwi.com/~wench/decss

http://www.capital.net/~mazzic

http://dvdcss.newmail.ru

http://www.subcor.com

http://www.frankw.net/decss

http://danger-island.com/~dav/any.lawyer.who [...]

http://www.fortunecity.com/vi ctorian/parkwood/95/DVD/

http://www.asleep.net/dvd

http://members.xoom.com/NiKeX

http://www.geocit ies.com/ResearchTriangle/Station/2819/index.html

http://www.execpc.com/~unicorn/dvdmirr or.htm

http://members.xoom.com/chapter3/Mamma No.htm

http://www.twistedlogic.com/archive/dvd

http://wiw.org/~drz/css/

http://merlinjim.freeservers.com/dvd/

http://www.visi.com/~adept/liberty

http://mikedotd.penguinpowered.com/deccs

http://www.ct2600.org/2600-DVD.html

http://magic.hurrah.com/~fireball/dvd/

http://homepages.together.net/~ib nzahid/DeCSS.zip

http://www.save2600.8m.com

http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dantepsn/

http://mikedotd.penguinpowered.com/decss

http://members.xoom.com/mxpxguy/dvd/

http://decss.fall0ut.com

http://vedaa.tripod.com/decss.html

http://members.xoom.com/iox

http://www.hackunlimited.com/dvd/

http://hem.fyristorg.com/police/css.htm

http://elknews.netpedia.net/dvd/

http://www.idrive.com/decss/web

http://www.chello.nl/~f.vanwaveren

http://quintessenz.at/q

http://www.clug.com/~vodak/dvd/

http://www.nacs.net/~vodak/dvd/

http://ny2600.iwarp.com

http://www.wpi.edu/~nassar/dvd/

http://www.glue.umd.edu/~castongj

http://www.geocities.com/cold_dvd/

http://www.projectgamma.com/deccs/

http://members.xoom.com/mogreen/decss/

http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip

http://www.angelfire.com/de2/decss/dec ss.htm

http://www.krackdown.com/decss

http://www.ithink.org/dvd/

http://www.fortunecit y.com/skyscraper/motorola/1415/decss.htm

http://chaz.fsgs.com/misc/DvD/

http://www.linuxstart.com/~kv ance/projects/decss.html

http://www.darkkingz.com/DeCSS.zip

http://come.to/intelex

http://ebmedia.net/dvd/

http://www.geocities.com/decss_forever/

http://revolution.3-cities.com/~spack/dv d/

http://www.geocities.com/Sili conValley/Software/8762/

http://members.xoom.com/s_o_sam/help.html

http://www.vexed.net/CSS/

http://smokering.org

http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz

http://home.rmci.net/bert/fuckthelawyers

http://dlsf.org

http://home.rmci.net/bert/dvd

http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip

http://linux.uci.agh.edu.pl/~outlaw/ decss.html

http://debian.mps.krakow.pl/mirror/css/

http://www.mindspring.com/~stonethrower

http://www.geocitie s.com/SiliconValley/Hardware/6188/index.html

http://matt.frogspace.net/css/

ftp://www.spamshack.net/pub/dcss/

http://werewolf12.cjb.net

http://isupport2600.8m.com

http://imezok.tripod.com/Untitled.txt

http://warpedreality.members.easyspace. com/

http://w1.1634.telia.com/~u163400190 /DeCSS.zip

http://ts1.online.fr/dvd/

http://homepages.go.com/homepage s/4/0/3/403_error/

http://members.xoom.com/maud123/Home/C SS.htm

http://xtreme2k.8k.com/DeCSS

http://hackingdvd.homestead.com

http://www.geocities.com/soho /studios/6752/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/corporatemin dcontrol

http://darklord.darkthrone.com/user s/smith/dvd/

http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip

http://www.twistedlogic.com/archive/dvd

http://www.image.dk/~mbp

http://www.divisionbyzero.com/decss/

http://decss.cx

http://kevins.ne.mediaone.net/~kevins/dv d/

http://friko6.onet.pl/war/mkochano/

http://planeta.clix.pt/DJ_AmAzInG/DVD/

http://noc.res.cmu.edu

http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4ef1890/css/

http://hackingdvd.homestead.com

http://www.uwm.edu/~zachkarp/index.html

http://st-bart.net

http://decss_files.tripod.com

http://wakeupthe.net/dvd/

http://www.angelfire.com/punk/freedom/

http://www.corova.com/dvd/

http://2600.dk/mirrors/css/

http://dvdcrack.homepage.com

http://www.copkiller.org

http://www.worldcity.nl/~frank/dvd

http://members.xoom.com/iamkeenan/master/

http://www.adulation.net/css/

http://homepage.interacces s.com/~mycroft/decss/DeCSS.zip

http://underground.pl/dvd/

http://members.xoom.com/nyc2600

http://zerosoft.hypermart.net/warez/ DVDcrK.txt

http://www.deforest.org/CSS

http://members.xoom.com/freedvdinfo/

http://www.geocities.com/Sili conValley/Software/3971/

http://24.114.168.235/public/css.htm

http://fairuse.freeservers.com/

http://jupiter.spaceports.com/~decss

http://www.c0ke.com/DVD

http://2600.bigfuc.com

http://www.crosswinds.net/oakland/~ahrendt/Lawyers _are_scu m-sucking_pigs [...]

http://sdf.lonestar.org/~egg/

http://cssalgorithm.8m.com

http://www.duffbrew.com/decss/

http://heavymusic.8m.com

http://www.oblivion.net/~amar/css

http://www.charm.net/~dutch

http://members.tripod.com/ny2600/

http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/ny2600/

go.to/nairos

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/decs s/

http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/dvd.htm

http://theannux.homestead.com/decss.html

http://members.aol.com/elktonstalkers/CS S/

http://pages.hotbot.com/edu/silex/mir ror.html

http://budsmoker.com/sites/decss/

http://www.geocities.com/watice2/

http://home.att.net /~phreakonaleash/ccs_mirror--screw_the_feds/

http://DECSS-Baby.tripod.com/

http://decss.cyvoid.net

http://www.azillionmonkeys.c om/qed/recess_for_css.html

http://www.reapers.org

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS

http://www.halma.nl/~bb

http://supportyourlocal2600.homestead.co m/

http://www.angelfire.com/pe/sh3/deccs/

http://www.angelfire.com/el ectronic/icebandits/dvd.html

http://killer.radom.net/~shoggoth/dvd.ht ml

http://www3.50megs.com/dvd4free/

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/a ntigovernment/css.html

http://dbzauctions.tripod.com/decss.zip

Mirrors part 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-19 02:42 · Score: 0 · on Corel Draw 9 for Linux Needs Beta Testers

Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Jan 19, 12:13am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

We apologize for the length of time between updates. This list has gotten quite large and thus more difficult to maintain.

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

Mirrors part 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-16 07:10 · Score: 0 · on New DVD Lawsuits Filed by the MPAA (UPDATED)

Note: This mirror list has been copied from http://www.humpin.org/decss/, on January 2nd 2000 13:13 GMT

Mirrors since 28-Dec-99 added by me.
To my main DVD page (containing list of lists of mirrors) Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Fri, Dec 31, 8:18pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

OOPS - Trying Humpin list again by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-30 11:08 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Thu, Dec 30, 2:55am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-29 06:42 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Today - Are You Ready to Rumble?

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Dec 29, 3:14pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

Nostalgia - How things once were by WHiTe+VaMPiRe · 1999-11-27 01:05 · Score: 1 · on Are BBS-Like Communities Dead?

I was not going to post, but what the hell. Time to waste some time that I do not have!

I first started on BBSes with my good ol' trusty 2400. I remember spending 10 minutes to download a 50k DOOM wad, those were the later years that I had it. Hayes, of course.

I called all the local boards in 614 and actively participated in the community. I stuck to a lot of the 'underground' scene and participated in the more tight-knit boards. Boards such as Computeen were not good for much more than their active LORD, which I was kicking ass in.

I participated in a local FreeNET, my first introduction to the Internet. I mainly used it for Usenet and I used the e-mail account that they had available. I generally avoided using the Internet; I was not very big on it. I preferred the more tight-knit BBS scene where everybody knew everybody.

Gamma Force BBS -- the first real incarnation of Gamma Force, and the first board that I ran. I had co-sysoped a couple boards before but this was the first one that I truly ran. I had a whole lot of fun too. Many a late night I spent working with the board, talking to a user or two.

It originally ran on VBBS (Virtual BBS) and I eventually switched to Iniquity. Iniquity is a pretty nice board, and development is still going on. On another note, Iniquity is also what brought me to having my nick with lowercase vowels. It was a 'feature' in the software and I thought it looked neat. I decided to stick with it to recognize my 'roots.; This was before all the '133t crap.'

After I had gF BBS up for awhile, I managed to get a 14.4. That was back when they were first available and still pretty expensive. I remember when I first dialed up a board and the ANSI loaded so quickly. I nearly cheesed my pants. No more laggy ANSI on the 2400! Stuff was pretty cool then. In my eyes, it was the peak of the scene.

I had gF BBS up for nearly 2 years. I had approximately 400 users. I forget how many calls a day. I was still only one node. I think I managed to hit 28.8 before I took the board down. That was when I first started to spend more time with the Internet.

Every now and then, I would waste a few hours fraggin' away in DOOM. Nothing taught you how to wupp some ass more than getting yourself gibbed, repeatedly. I would go into this more, but it is off topic.

I still spent most of my time with the BBS scene but I had started to explore the Internet. That was back when IRC was still in its infancy. Nobody cared too much about the Web. Mosiac, ew. No frames, no tables, no font face tags. Lynx anyone?

I also had begun to experiment with Linux during that time period. Slackware 2.0, baby. Kernel 1.0.28 (I think, something like that). But that is another story.

Most people had started to shut down their boards. A lot of the greats were shutting down; the scene was starting to die. I kept the board around for a bit longer, as long as possible. Then I started to have computer problems, HD failures and what not. It just began to be so much trouble to keep the board up it was not worth it. I solemnly decided to end the legacy, as short as it may have been, of Gamma Force BBS. It was a helluva ride.

Where is Gamma Force now? I have it archived on my hard drive somewhere. Maybe one day I will get a wild hair and decide to put it back up as a telnet board, for nostalgia reasons. We shall see what the future holds.

Gamma Force's main project is currently Gamma Force IRC Network. It has been running for about 4 years now. Still small, not very successful. We have been around longer than some of the big networks, but hey. It started out private and we may make it private again unless we decide to get it going again. Twenty users just do not cut it anymore.

There is also Project Gamma, a sister project of gF.

We have other things planned; we have had other projects. We will always remember Gamma Force BBS. Those were some great times. Unfortunately, they are a thing of the past. We now have the Internet, and things have changed a lot. A whole lot.

That was definitely a trip down nostalgia lane.

(Disclaimer: Most of this stuff is from memory, some cloudy. All apologies for any inaccuracies, it is all from memory.)

References:

Gamma Force

Project Gamma

Iniquity

pG editorial - Times Are Changing - More on the whole 'BBS' thing and the lowercase vowels.

Project Gamma, Introduction - Read this if you want more information about the above.

Regards,

WHiTe VaMPiRe\Rem

Nostalgia - How things once were by WHiTe+VaMPiRe · 1999-11-27 01:05 · Score: 1 · on Are BBS-Like Communities Dead?

I was not going to post, but what the hell. Time to waste some time that I do not have!

I first started on BBSes with my good ol' trusty 2400. I remember spending 10 minutes to download a 50k DOOM wad, those were the later years that I had it. Hayes, of course.

I called all the local boards in 614 and actively participated in the community. I stuck to a lot of the 'underground' scene and participated in the more tight-knit boards. Boards such as Computeen were not good for much more than their active LORD, which I was kicking ass in.

I participated in a local FreeNET, my first introduction to the Internet. I mainly used it for Usenet and I used the e-mail account that they had available. I generally avoided using the Internet; I was not very big on it. I preferred the more tight-knit BBS scene where everybody knew everybody.

Gamma Force BBS -- the first real incarnation of Gamma Force, and the first board that I ran. I had co-sysoped a couple boards before but this was the first one that I truly ran. I had a whole lot of fun too. Many a late night I spent working with the board, talking to a user or two.

It originally ran on VBBS (Virtual BBS) and I eventually switched to Iniquity. Iniquity is a pretty nice board, and development is still going on. On another note, Iniquity is also what brought me to having my nick with lowercase vowels. It was a 'feature' in the software and I thought it looked neat. I decided to stick with it to recognize my 'roots.; This was before all the '133t crap.'

After I had gF BBS up for awhile, I managed to get a 14.4. That was back when they were first available and still pretty expensive. I remember when I first dialed up a board and the ANSI loaded so quickly. I nearly cheesed my pants. No more laggy ANSI on the 2400! Stuff was pretty cool then. In my eyes, it was the peak of the scene.

I had gF BBS up for nearly 2 years. I had approximately 400 users. I forget how many calls a day. I was still only one node. I think I managed to hit 28.8 before I took the board down. That was when I first started to spend more time with the Internet.

Every now and then, I would waste a few hours fraggin' away in DOOM. Nothing taught you how to wupp some ass more than getting yourself gibbed, repeatedly. I would go into this more, but it is off topic.

I still spent most of my time with the BBS scene but I had started to explore the Internet. That was back when IRC was still in its infancy. Nobody cared too much about the Web. Mosiac, ew. No frames, no tables, no font face tags. Lynx anyone?

I also had begun to experiment with Linux during that time period. Slackware 2.0, baby. Kernel 1.0.28 (I think, something like that). But that is another story.

Most people had started to shut down their boards. A lot of the greats were shutting down; the scene was starting to die. I kept the board around for a bit longer, as long as possible. Then I started to have computer problems, HD failures and what not. It just began to be so much trouble to keep the board up it was not worth it. I solemnly decided to end the legacy, as short as it may have been, of Gamma Force BBS. It was a helluva ride.

Where is Gamma Force now? I have it archived on my hard drive somewhere. Maybe one day I will get a wild hair and decide to put it back up as a telnet board, for nostalgia reasons. We shall see what the future holds.

Gamma Force's main project is currently Gamma Force IRC Network. It has been running for about 4 years now. Still small, not very successful. We have been around longer than some of the big networks, but hey. It started out private and we may make it private again unless we decide to get it going again. Twenty users just do not cut it anymore.

There is also Project Gamma, a sister project of gF.

We have other things planned; we have had other projects. We will always remember Gamma Force BBS. Those were some great times. Unfortunately, they are a thing of the past. We now have the Internet, and things have changed a lot. A whole lot.

That was definitely a trip down nostalgia lane.

(Disclaimer: Most of this stuff is from memory, some cloudy. All apologies for any inaccuracies, it is all from memory.)

References:

Gamma Force

Project Gamma

Iniquity

pG editorial - Times Are Changing - More on the whole 'BBS' thing and the lowercase vowels.

Project Gamma, Introduction - Read this if you want more information about the above.

Regards,

WHiTe VaMPiRe\Rem

Nostalgia - How things once were by WHiTe+VaMPiRe · 1999-11-27 01:05 · Score: 1 · on Are BBS-Like Communities Dead?

I was not going to post, but what the hell. Time to waste some time that I do not have!

I first started on BBSes with my good ol' trusty 2400. I remember spending 10 minutes to download a 50k DOOM wad, those were the later years that I had it. Hayes, of course.

I called all the local boards in 614 and actively participated in the community. I stuck to a lot of the 'underground' scene and participated in the more tight-knit boards. Boards such as Computeen were not good for much more than their active LORD, which I was kicking ass in.

I participated in a local FreeNET, my first introduction to the Internet. I mainly used it for Usenet and I used the e-mail account that they had available. I generally avoided using the Internet; I was not very big on it. I preferred the more tight-knit BBS scene where everybody knew everybody.

Gamma Force BBS -- the first real incarnation of Gamma Force, and the first board that I ran. I had co-sysoped a couple boards before but this was the first one that I truly ran. I had a whole lot of fun too. Many a late night I spent working with the board, talking to a user or two.

It originally ran on VBBS (Virtual BBS) and I eventually switched to Iniquity. Iniquity is a pretty nice board, and development is still going on. On another note, Iniquity is also what brought me to having my nick with lowercase vowels. It was a 'feature' in the software and I thought it looked neat. I decided to stick with it to recognize my 'roots.; This was before all the '133t crap.'

After I had gF BBS up for awhile, I managed to get a 14.4. That was back when they were first available and still pretty expensive. I remember when I first dialed up a board and the ANSI loaded so quickly. I nearly cheesed my pants. No more laggy ANSI on the 2400! Stuff was pretty cool then. In my eyes, it was the peak of the scene.

I had gF BBS up for nearly 2 years. I had approximately 400 users. I forget how many calls a day. I was still only one node. I think I managed to hit 28.8 before I took the board down. That was when I first started to spend more time with the Internet.

Every now and then, I would waste a few hours fraggin' away in DOOM. Nothing taught you how to wupp some ass more than getting yourself gibbed, repeatedly. I would go into this more, but it is off topic.

I still spent most of my time with the BBS scene but I had started to explore the Internet. That was back when IRC was still in its infancy. Nobody cared too much about the Web. Mosiac, ew. No frames, no tables, no font face tags. Lynx anyone?

I also had begun to experiment with Linux during that time period. Slackware 2.0, baby. Kernel 1.0.28 (I think, something like that). But that is another story.

Most people had started to shut down their boards. A lot of the greats were shutting down; the scene was starting to die. I kept the board around for a bit longer, as long as possible. Then I started to have computer problems, HD failures and what not. It just began to be so much trouble to keep the board up it was not worth it. I solemnly decided to end the legacy, as short as it may have been, of Gamma Force BBS. It was a helluva ride.

Where is Gamma Force now? I have it archived on my hard drive somewhere. Maybe one day I will get a wild hair and decide to put it back up as a telnet board, for nostalgia reasons. We shall see what the future holds.

Gamma Force's main project is currently Gamma Force IRC Network. It has been running for about 4 years now. Still small, not very successful. We have been around longer than some of the big networks, but hey. It started out private and we may make it private again unless we decide to get it going again. Twenty users just do not cut it anymore.

There is also Project Gamma, a sister project of gF.

We have other things planned; we have had other projects. We will always remember Gamma Force BBS. Those were some great times. Unfortunately, they are a thing of the past. We now have the Internet, and things have changed a lot. A whole lot.

That was definitely a trip down nostalgia lane.

(Disclaimer: Most of this stuff is from memory, some cloudy. All apologies for any inaccuracies, it is all from memory.)

References:

Gamma Force

Project Gamma

Iniquity

pG editorial - Times Are Changing - More on the whole 'BBS' thing and the lowercase vowels.

Project Gamma, Introduction - Read this if you want more information about the above.

Regards,

WHiTe VaMPiRe\Rem

Re: "Do you think that we let the type of data..." by ahde · 1999-11-13 02:18 · Score: 1 · on Interview: John Vranesevich Doesn't Really Answer

I would pay money to see those logs.

Despite what people may think or feel about JP's character, personality, or competence; Anti-online *is* one of the most highly-targeted websites. And it *is* pretty secure.

I only know of one defacement of the site, mirrored at http://www.projectgamma.com/defaced/1999/august/an tionline.com.html; which, despite its own claims, was one of the most clever hacks I have seen. And it would not have happened if Anti-online had not indiscriminately copied the contents of other websites; a practice that is both uncommon and unethical.

I think that I am not the only one that would be interested in seeing the variety and nature of attacks against Anti-online. If JP is not actually using the information now, I might just put up my own box and piss people off. At least it would be more fun than reading bugtraq. Maybe I can even get some venture capital to buy me a T-1.

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Domain: projectgamma.com

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