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New Yorker on Miyazaki
An anonymous reader writes "The New Yorker issue of 17 January has an in-depth article on Hayao Miyazaki. It gives a nice look at the arc of his work, short interviews with him, and more extended interviews with his co-workers. Here is an interview with the article's author."
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1st post?
This is what I am
I can't make it stop
No matter how much I wanna change
I can't make it go away
Fifth post?
What happened to my prefrence of excluding anime articles? It seems to have disapeared...
Slipping Away...
american-redcross.org is a SCAM SITE masquerading as the American Red Cross (real site: www.redcross.org. Different IP block, registered to "lovelele25@yahoo.com", registered JUST TODAY at 15-Jan-2005 21:17:18 UTC. Front page is a credit card donation form. (Compare and contrast: the REAL American Red Cross site.
Let's take these fuckers down before they can steal thousands of dollars from innocent people and steal their credit card data.
Note that the Verisign link goes to the verification for WWW.REDCROSS.ORG, the real site (not for www.AMERICAN-redcross.org, the scammers).
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
the scam site is hotlinking to images from the real redcross site. ..or goatse
we should tell redcross to replace those images with a notice about the scam site.
either way
And guess what... their registrar is MelbourneIT. Hmmm, now where have I heard that name recently?
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Why, let's just click on their link and see if they have as much bandwidth as the real Red Cross :-)
They are also hosted on yahoo/geocities.
Report them here:
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/geo/cgi_abuse
In America we are imprisoned by our fear of them.
Whois info:
Admin ID:C110581683433396
Admin Name:Elizabeth Cantrell
Admin Organization:Elizabeth Cantrell
Admin Street1:409 Pleasant Road
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Dothan
Admin State/Province:AL
Admin Postal Code:36301
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.3347939768
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:lovelele25@yahoo.com
heh, phone number is busy...
Slipping Away...
Or if you really want to fuck them: here or here.
JessLeah,
Submit the info and see if we can get it on the front page. This is an important issue and perhaps Slashdot can help resolve it. Alot of people who have the power or know people who have the power to take care of this read slashdot. If its on the front page it won't be ignored.
I have their page loaded with images turned off so the real Red cross does not get hurt and I have autorefresh set to once a second. I'm counting down to their demise.... Slashdot effect in 9, 8, 7, ... That fucker is still going strong, what's up with that fellow Slashdotters?!
Note that the images on the site are stolen from the real red cross, so hitting on the page repeatedly isn't the best way to do it.
while true; do wget -q http://www.american-redcross.org; rm -f index.html; done
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
Already notified the American Red Cross. I hope the less tech-savvy won't fall into that trap. I feel sorry for those who has conveniently revealed all their private information to this Elizabeth Cantrell [whois.net] person.
I called Red Cross.
There are people manning the phones, and technical people on site due to a telethon they held. Apparently, the site was getting hit pretty hard already.
The gentleman I spoke to said he was going to talk to their people right away.
At least the real Red Cross is aware of it.
H.
When VCR's are outlawed, only outlaws will have VCR's.
You would think if you were going to pull of a scam such as this. You wouldnt tell the FBI where to find you.
Unless someone else put this persons contact info on the record just to throw anyone tracking them down off.
In America we are imprisoned by our fear of them.
You're probably correct... googling for lovelele brings up ~70% Chinese sites, so it may indeed be a joejob.
Be aware that that isn't necessarily correct information: you have no guarantee that whoever set up the scam didn't just put in someone else's details.
Also, the fact registrar's Melbourne IT, as in the previous story about domain hijacking doesn't exactly lend credibility to the whois records.
They seem to be hosted by Yahoo, behind Akamai proxies, so a simple DDOS really isn't going to help here: you'll just cause collateral damage.
If you're going to do that, do it right...
export A=0;while true;do lynx -dump http://www.american-redcross.org/ >/dev/null & usleep 100000;export A=$[ $A + 1 ];echo $A;done
Not that I'm suggesting anyone should run that of course, but if you do, adjust the usleep parameter according to your taste and bandwidth.
Its looks like a phising attempt.
7 48%wop%dmu8&lastname=fasdf&F%NIofijmIOUI%DJ9388jd9 3ni7%HJDOnf&pmt_type=&6%478niudnIHD%UNdy7389DIN9%o 8j&card_type=&dk%0983%H8D8Jk%9&card_number=&dj9H%3 9D9k0d8&expire_mm=&OMDiojdo0JD847d%oijdi37hd9%8JD9 378d&expire_yy=&98J937H9D83HD&v2_number=&873%hj9d% 8j8iuIHJ&pin_number=&UFHHJjh%ihkj&screenname=
No credit card transaction requires an ATM PIN Number.
Sent a bunch of bogas data and there were no checks on it. So i assume that someone is just collecting numbers. Mailing the form results somewhere.
As far as i can tell. There are two pages. donation-form.php (collects the info) and thankyou.php (A generic thankyou page that sets some info based on query string.
The query string has some wierd encoding: http://www.american-redcross.org/thankyou.php?dny
In America we are imprisoned by our fear of them.
The site is hosted by Yahoo and the images are hosted on the real Red Cross site, as others have mentioned. A DDOS attack won't bring it down, and will only hurt the real Red Cross.
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How 'bout firing off a DMCA takedown notice to yahoo, considering they're using Red Cross images?
Jw
Possibly, but if he's on a capped plan, then maybe he can be either driven into bankruptcy by his bandwidth bill, or the host will temporarily shut down the site for excessive bandwidth use.
Completely offtopic. Submit this as a Slashdot story maybe and you'll get FAR more attention. If I had mod points I'd mod this Off-Topic.
Yes, because the real red cross aren't scammers and liars and thieves? Remember the whole 9/11 thing? They reaised hundreds of millions of dollars (or was it billions?) on behalf of 9/11 victims. But they re-routed a lot of that cash for other completely unrelated Red Cross efforts. Now, while that may not be the worst thing in the world, I'd like to know that if I'm donating my money for a cause that it is actually used for that cause. If that cause no longer needs additional funding, then just give me my money back.
Also, many asian governments are saying they don't want more donations and the US Government (as well as others) have stated that there's no point randomly throwing money at this cause until and unless we know it's needed. YOu very well may just be throwing your money at an organization that will never spend it in Asia or on anything to do with the tsunami in Asia.
The fake red cross site is feeding on people with good intentions and so is the real red cross. Both are using the tsunami as an excuse to pilfer your bank account while you're in a warm and fuzzy "save the world" mood.
You do realize that's illegal, don't you?
You can't just randomly fire off DMCA takedown notics to service providers on someone else's behalf unless you actually ARE LEGALLY ACTING ON THEIR BEHALF.
The red cross and their lawyers are allowed to fire off DMCA notices. YOU are not.
The point is to get these guys downed _QUICKLY_. NOT slowly. I want them down _NOW_. Do you honestly think Malda (or anyone) would post a story NOW!?
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
This is one of the reasons that the Red Cross now has a fund selection, be it tsunami relief or measles innoculations. I didn't donate to Doctors Without Borders because they didn't have the option for me to put my funds only into tsunami relief. Instead I donated to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. The problem is solved. Your money will go to tsunami relief minus administrative costs that any nonprofit organization has. This situation is not really similar to 9/11 moneywise, since every victim's family isn't going to be able to get $1M. The Red Cross is more likely to come up short on money than to have too much to compensate.
done and done.
I've posted a story. It isn't up yet (if they put it up). Until then, this comment is very useful. Sorry if it annoys your discussion about animae, but preventing people from being scammed out of money they intended to go to tsunami victims is more important than this discussion.
Mr. Miyagi kicks ass.
Indeed. We could however inform yahoo of the fact that the site is not only a scam, but also illegally using copyrighted images, no?
Tell them we're a fan of yahoo's site, and discovered this suspicious one while browsing their directory.
Jw
Says you. Who the fuck made you editor in fucking chief?
This thread isn't worth the shit I wipe from my ass.
You sound like those spammers who argue that they should be given an exception, because their product is really important for you to know about, above and beyond everyone else's.
And yet you still take the time to reply. Says something about your priorities doesn't it. Rather than make a useful statement somewhere else, you use your time to give useless criticism of others. Carry on, jackass.
1. Register a domain name using your enemy's name and address
2. Put a fake Red Cross site on there, using yahoo, so that it's not easily traced to you
3. Post a message in Slashdot - doesn't matter if it's off topic.. just say "Take these scamming f--kers down" in caps.
4. Your enemy gets arrested
5. ???
6. Profit
(steps 5 and 6 added as part of the standard Slashdot "scheme protocol")
Go fuck yourself. What kind of heartless JACKASS are you to NOT want to do everything within your power to stop these scamming assholes?
Well, probably a Republican, at the very least...
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
It's vulnerable to cross-site scripting
n y7 48%wop%dmu8&lastname=%3Cimg%20src=http://goat.cx/h ello.jpg%3E&F%NIofijmIOUI%DJ9388jd93ni7%HJDOnf&pmt _type=&6%478niudnIHD%UNdy7389DIN9%o8j&card_type=&d k%0983%H8D8Jk%9&card_number=&dj9H%39D9k0d8&expire_ mm=&OMDiojdo0JD847d%oijdi37hd9%8JD9378d&expire_yy= &98J937H9D83HD&v2_number=&873%hj9d%8j8iuIHJ&pin_nu mber=&UFHHJjh%ihkj&screenname=
http://www.american-redcross.org/thankyou.php?d
Yep. You sound exactly like your typical spammer.
Or like your typical brochure-pushing jesus-freak in public. "I know I'm annoying, but don't you understand? I just HAVE to save your soul!".
I'm all for doing the right thing, but you're shitting all over someone else's website outside of the context of that site. You're going about it all wrong and have this self-rightous, indignant attitude that you think you are some how allowed a grandious exception for your self-appointed cause.
So, my busy-body dear, why don't you go fuck yourself. After you roll yourself in flour cand find the wet-spot, of course.
Report this problem through The City of Dothan website.
MIYAZAKI PWNS j00!
MOD PARENT DOWN
.sig about it and stfu already.
(wish I had mod points today)
Put a link in your fucking
Ooh! Alliteration!
Wait, I hate alliteration.
What you just said is a lot of hot air which translates to "I AM ANOTHER APATHETIC AMERICAN."
I hate your kind. I hope you die young and miserable, you asshole.
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
At least we see what you're really like, now.
You're all stomping around because people don't agree with you. Nice little temper tantrum.
And yes, I'm such an uncaring apathetic American. That's why I donated $4,000 last week. To a legitimate cause, of course.
Really, my caring or not is not relevant here. Your actions _are_. The more you keep talking, the more of an ass you're coming off as. Your manic switch in attitudes from "oh, think of the poor poor people" to "FUCK YOU FOR NOT SUPPORTING ME YOU STUPID AMERICAN SWINE MOTHER FUCKER" illustrates that you're just some moron trying to grab some attention by hijacking a Slashdot thread.
There are so many more effective places to go to promote this.
"Yep. You sound exactly like your typical spammer."
Except that the parent is trying to save you money vice take it.
"Or like your typical brochure-pushing jesus-freak in public."
This is news. This isn't something that you already have heard. You know the message that the jesus-freak is saying. Did you honestly know about the american-redcross site before this post? And you didn't care?
"I'm all for doing the right thing"
But you don't support trying to protect, not only the donators, but also the tsunami victims who won't get money due to fraud? How are you doing the right thing? Ensuring that we follow the rules? Otherwise slashdot would degenerate into anarchy, right? Good god, I thought geeks were above this type of thinking.
how hard would it be to register a domain name in someone else's name, and set this up as some sort of prank. All you needed to do was to report this to the authorities... Posting to an anamie discussion seems far afield to me!
WARNING: Parent post's link probably leads you to the goatse image. Do NOT visit that link.
Who's saving ME money? I wasn't going to donate to a fake organization.
It sounds like this person probably fell for it and now they're pissed and embarrassed and using Slashdot to vent. But they wouldn't admit that they were stupid enough to fall for it in the first place, surely.
And of course this is something I've already heard. Do you not read the news? Scam sites pretending to be legitimate tnusmani assistance programs have been repeatedly brought to attention through most news outlets in the past week. Pick up a newspaper. They're only like... 35 cents. You might learn something!
And guess what, the poster could save victims $100,000 if its done fast. Your money value doesn't mean shit. What percentage of your time was $4,000? I'll bet the money saved blocking this site is more of JessLeah's time than yours. And it took alot more courage to do. Continue being an ass. It suits you.
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
I'm sure you're a very productive member of society.
Totally. And why post it in this anime topic (anime sucks, but that's another issue) when there is another thread about the service provider involved just one story below this?
Sure seems interesting that this person brought this up the same day it came out. How did they find out about it so quick? And the same day Melbourne IT is in the news about DNS hijacking. And an hour later, there's a big post urgently pointing out this domain and this scam and this person's name involved in the whois?
I call attention whore or online stalker harassing the person they stuck in the whois info. Don't much matter because that dude (chick?) is being a real ass in the rest of their own thread. American bashing and political affiliation bashing amongst other comments by them. If this person isn't clearly a troll then I don't know what the fuck is.
Shut up you anonymous pussy. And I bet this person didn't save anyone jack shit. Who would be stupid enough to go to american-redcross.org when redcross.org would do? And posting it at a tech site where people aren't goign to be dumb enough to fall for it either? Fuck off.
How hard would it be to hax0r into Yahoo's servers at Akamai? Pretty fucking hard. Also, I don't have any fucking clue who this person is, and they probably aren't the actual person responsible. They're probably just another innocent victim (or a made-up name).
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
He's a heartless jackass for taking issue with you hijacking a thread to spam your message? Or are you just lobbing baseless personal attacks on him for questioning your actions because you're too weak to justify them and actually believe that everyone else reading your messages are such sheep that they'll see you're republican and heartless jackass comments and give them credibility?
Someone is coming across as a selfish twit and it's not the people suggesting you find another way to get the message out.
I knew it was fake the instant I saw it. The real site wouldn't have a credit card donation form on the front page.
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
What does that have to do with anything. Nobody hacked into Akamai or Yahoo. Someone put up a quick two page site and hotlinked to other people's Akamai served content. Get your facts straight at least?
I beg your pardon? Explain, precisely, how this was done? http://www.american-redcross.org/ points to the site. Sure, they could point the DNS at whatever servers they wanted (Yahoo or otherwise), but the Akamai server in question would still have to be configured (e.g. in httpd.conf or whatever) to point requests for that site to the appropriate files.
Please demonstrate how this can be done WITHOUT hacking Yahoo or Akamai.
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
I've tried every way possible. I've called the AP; I got all the way to their National Desk, but they don't think it's a story. I've called Akamai; they claim the box is Yahoo's, and that they can do nothing. I've called the FBI; they took a report. (Could take weeks before anything happens.) Calling the Melbourne registrar would be an exercise in futility (see the story about Panix, one story down on the front page...). I called CNN, but they just told me to talk to the newswires (which I did, and which I was planning on doing anyhow.) Calling the Alabama cops would be futile, as the person listed on the WHOIS record is probably not the real scammer anyhow (i.e. they are probably just another innocent victim).
Any other suggestions? Just sit back and relax while people get robbed and their information/identities stolen?
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
I know about it because I received this spam earlier this morning:
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:56:51 +0200
From: "donate@american-redcross.org" <donate@american-redcross.org>
Subject: YOU CAN HELP TSUNAMI VICTIMS.....PLEASE READ
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YOU CAN HELP - EVERY PENNY COUNTS. CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE
http://www.american-redcross.org/donation-form.ph
And I posted about it here because, when I posted, this was basically a "brand new" story. More chance of getting the scammers taken down.
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Try the credit card companies too. Usually, they'll just take the loss, but they might be interested. Otherwise, the FBI was a good call. Also go trough the registrar chain, from verisign down to the registered address. If you think the information might be fraudulent, they may lose the domain registration.
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I sent emails to the real red cross, to yahoo, and to the registrar in Australia just before they opened after the weekend. Others called the FBI, etc. Thanks for the effort.
You got marked offtopic yourself justice has been done :)