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Earthstation 5 Claimed to be Malware
Rob from RPI writes "You may remember the announcement about a company, or program, or both called Earthstation 5 who recently 'Declared War' on the MPAA. Well guess what? Turns out that it's got code in it that allows anyone to delete any file on your computer. I suggest that you un-install as soon as possible!"
Just goes to show you can't trust anyone but the RIAA for f'air and balanced info-warfare:)
Really, I mean it. From looking at their web site one would have thought they were totally legitimate!
Now they can delete all those movies from your hard disk!
It deleted itself.
And in other news when Reuter's contacted Earth Station 5's lead programmer, he had apparently mumbled under his breath.. "its not a bug damnit!, it's a feature"
What about the terrible GUI? That's the real crime here!
Wait a minute, I thought these guys were anti-MPAA and anti-RIAA, meaning they can only be powerful forces for good!
Arggggghhhhh
Binary world-view is breaking down as we speak...
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A bad UPN science fiction series.
From their website... (quote) Our group is made up of many people, Jordanians, Palestinians, Indians, Americans, Russians and Israelis. Some of us are Jewish, some Christians, some Hindus and other of us are Muslim. Believe it or not, we all love and respect each other. (/quote) Yesh, now we know that was too good to be true.
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Rest assured, brothers, your files have not been deleted; they have been martyred and are currently being serviced by 72 virgins.
Deep Space 9
Babylon 5
The Dagobah System
About a missing file: /home/dnotj/.wine/fake_windows/boot.ini
No more Micro$oft bashing from me. Its like bashing at the special olympics.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
Did you know that you can rearrange the letters of "EARTHSTATION FIVE" to spell "RIAA VOTES IN THEFT"?
They're behind the whole thing, I'm telling you.
2. Once everyone has it, delete all pirated files
3. Profit!
I half wish they'd actually do that - maybe it would incite a full boycott. Though I am happy with the understanding that their sales are declining already.
The only thing more dangerous than a file named -rf is renaming it -rf\ /
www.es5.com is regestered to (get this)
Earthstationv Ltd., A Palestinian Corporation
Jenin refugee camp #23
Jenin (PS)
Rfugee camp? Palestine? Unless they lied on the registration I doubt this is RIAA.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
If I had received this in my Inbox, I probably would have ignored it. It's interesting that I'm conditioned (brainwashed?) to ignore this stuff when it's in an email, but when I read it on /. I take it seriously.
you must be new here.
~the keyboard is mightier than the pen.
People need to stop trashing Earthstation 5. It's a fantastic program, and does exactly as advertised. Plus, it seems to have built-in compression software -- my free disk space has been steadily increasing ever since I installed it!
May we never see th
Scenario 1:
Maybe this is not malicious. Possibly a way to protect people in the event that something bad happens, like all this hyped anonymity and encryption turns out to be trivial to crack. ES5 may have already developed a worm that spreads and exploits this function to delete all shared files on the network, which may be in the users' best interests.
Scenario 2 (aka Conspiracy theory 1):
Orrin Hatch is making good on his promise to destroy the PCs of filesharers around the world, while placing the blame on Palestine.
I like the #2 better, but you decide for yourself :)
Later...
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...with their next bandwidth bill:
/dev/null http://download.es5.com/es5us.exe
$ wget -O
It's obviously just Digital Rights Management code!
I thought the MPAA -was- a terrorist outfit.
I tried ES5 some time ago to see whether it worked or not.
It was such junk that I uninstalled it without even managing to find a single thing, illegal, legal, whatever.
If the application was designed to get a community and then hurt them, it is a real failure.
What I suspect is that the people behind ES5 really are a bunch of half-mad Russian programmers paid by oil-quaffing Saudis, who actually believe that their application rocks. And they planned to get 15m users, then approach the highest bidder, advertisers or *AA, selling the captured market. The "encryption" stuff is just to make it impossible to reverse-engineer ES5 clients, and the backdoor is just there to up the ante for selling their shit to the *AA.
A poor plan, horribly implemented.
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Can someone please please PLEASE write a filter that excludes threads that mention the words "Israel" or "Palestine" more than once each?
Here, guys, stop arguing. I'll make all of your arguments for you:
Pro-Palestinian guy: Israel is guilty of $ATROCITY1, $ATROCITY2, and $ATROCITY3
Pro-Israel guy: Surely you're not comparing things like $ATROCITY2 to $ATROCITY4, $ATROCITY5, and $ATROCITY6, which were committed by Palestinians
Pro-Palestinian guy: Oh come on! $ATROCITY6 wasn't nearly as bad as $ATROCITY3! Besides, they only did it because of $ATROCITY3! If Israel had never committed $ATROCITY3 then the Palestinians wouldn't have had to have committed $ATROCITY6!
Pro-Israel guy: but the Israels only committed $ATROCITY3 as a defensive measure because the Palestinians committed $ATROCITY7!
Anyways, I've now said EVERY SINGLE THING every partisan in this argument has ever said and will ever say, so you can all just STFU.
All's true that is mistrusted