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The Beginning of the End For Hadopi?
zrbyte writes "TorrentFreak reports on the latest developments in the french Hadopi saga. 'The private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government has been hacked. Trident Media Guard, which is responsible for gathering data for so-called 3 strikes warnings was hacked and now has some of its data out in the wild, an event which has the potential to upset the operation of Hadopi.' TMG temporarily suspended the gathering of data on file-sharers while they investigated the breach, later claiming that the attack was on 'an unprotected test server with no confidential data.'"
Isn't it "the beginning of the end" for everything today?
http://slashdot.org/poll/2174/The-world-will-end-
Hey, I was only kidding. You don't have to MOD me "Troll" . . . again . . . .
http://torrentfreak.com/french-3-strikes-suspended-due-to-anti-piracy-security-alert-110517/
Sarkozy doesn't want any freedom of expression on the Internet:
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/frances-g8-focuses-on-control-and-restrictions-to-online-freedoms
http://kcrg.biz/2011/05/sarkozy-expels-the-freedoms-of-its-civilized-internet/
Quoting TorrentFreak: "Actually, hacked is probably too strong a word, since it appears TMG left the front door open." According to Bluetouff (the one who performed the 'hack'), the "Index of" wasn't disabled, so the data was left in the open. Oh, btw, Hadopi is about punishing people if they didn't secure enough their wifi / computer ...
I don't want Sarkozy and nobody cares, why should I care what the garden gnome wants?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Now, it might be different how my company handles tests, but I'd have guessed it would be a bit more difficult to hack a "test" server because, well, it's used for testing. Not for public viewing. It may seem odd to the unsuspecting eye, but test servers are usually vastly better protected than productive systems. First, for the obvious reason that they are used internally and thus reaching them is usually a bit more tricky than accessing a system that needs external connections, and second because test servers are usually used for software that's not yet launched and hence usually a bit more "secret" than software that already made it into the open.
Is it me or is having a "hacked test server" not looking too well on their security bill?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Also :
-Hadopi have severed the link between them and TMG, as a result of this hack
Source: telecompaper + the French media
(and it was their only source of monitoring)
-the CNIL decided to investigate TMG due to this lack of protection of what may be personnal data.
-TMG decided to sue the hacker, but then removed the complaint
The majority doesn't even understand what it's about.
Newspaper don't care to explain what is it, and why it could be bad.
The minority who knows about it and gives a damn knows how to circumvent it, and use SSH/proxies/neighbour's wifi.
As someone that creates test servers all day long as part of my job I have to wonder what they mean by this. For us to create a true and proper test server it is a MIRROR of our production server. Then we make the changes we need... TEST it.. if everything works we make the changes on production. "Just a test server" really?
if you even temporarily be a moron enough to vote any right-wing party, that happens. thats all that there is to it. the reason for you voting for the right wing party, does not matter. in this case, french voted for right mainly because of the culture clash in between migrant population, and anti-immigrant sentiments.
right wing parties dont do any shit for what you have actually voted for, but what they want to do when they are in power. and this is what's happening in france. its as simple as that.
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