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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.'"
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 ...
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.