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Site Aims To Be the "Google" of the Underweb
tsu doh nimh writes "A new service in the cyber underground aims to be the Google search of underground Web sites, connecting buyers to a vast sea of shops that offer an array of dodgy goods and services, from stolen credit card numbers to identity information and anonymity tools. From the story: 'A glut of data breaches and stolen card numbers has spawned dozens of stores that sell the information. The trouble is that each shop requires users to create accounts and sign in before they can search for cards. Enter MegaSearch, which lets potential buyers discover which fraud shops hold the cards they're looking for without having to first create accounts at each store.'"
"Cyber underground," ooh, scary. Clearly, the author of this article has never visited any onion indexing sites. Seriously though, f this is a publicly accessible web server, and the creator is working directly with fraud shops, it seems like it's only a matter of time before authorities find a way to catch him. Even just by arresting one of the shop owners who might flip.
GreatBunzinni has been posting anonymous accusations listing a whole bunch of Slashdot accounts as being part of a marketing campaign for Microsoft, without any evidence. GreatBunzinni has accidentally outed himself as this anonymous poster. Half the accounts he attacks don't even post pro-Microsoft rhetoric. The one thing they appear to have in common is that they have been critical of Google in the past. GreatBunzinni has been using multiple accounts to post these "shill" accusations, such as Galestar, NicknameOne, and flurp.
That's not the problem. The problem is that moderators gave him +5 Informative and are now modding down the accused, even for legitimate posts. Metamoderation is supposed to address this by filtering out the bad moderators, but clearly it's not working.
This "shill" crap that has been flying around lately has to stop. It's restricting a variety of viewpoints from participating on the site and creating an echo chamber.
Honeypot much? Nice try, guys. Way to debut it at the end of the humpday protest cycle.
So sue me, I never actually made it to DEFCON, and having been to Vegas, I hardly want to go back...
Sites like this are why the general public thinks that laws like SOPA are ok.
Or let me put it another way, if you are creating a search engine for it... it isn't underground.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
The bonch user account is a shill account which is used, along with other user accounts such as SharkLaser and Overly Critical Guy, to astroturf slashdot in order to manipulate slashdot users with pro-Microsoft, anti-Google PR.
See how these accounts paste PR crap from the same corporate script in this post and this post, and in this post check how these accounts are employed together in the same discussion to karmawhore and to steer the discussion into a more corporate PR position.
As more evidence linking these accounts, particularly how they copy/paste the same PR script and reiterate it in different discussions, check out this post with a roundup of all copy/paste screwups
Mod this astroturfing sockpuppet account accordingly.
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.
Organized Trolling Campaign crap flood: This "shill" crap that has been flying around lately has to stop.
bonch: The "shill" accusations flying around on Slashdot lately are getting out of control.
Overly Critical Guy: This isn't bonch
Overly Critical Guy: This is not bonch.... Signed, NOT bonch
"NOT bonch"? Ha ha. BUSTED!
bonch: Seamless experiences win out in the long term. We saw this when gaming moved from PCs to consoles in the 2000s, and it's happening now in the transition to the post-PC era.
Overly Critical Guy: Seamless experiences always win out over time. We saw it when gaming shifted from PCs to consoles, and now the industry is shifting from desktops to mobile devices.
Overly Critical Guy: Android phones used to look like this [imgur.com]
bonch: Android used to look like this [imgur.com]
Overly Critical Guy: The keyboard looks exactly like Apple's flat keyboard, and the trackpad is the Magic Trackpad that Apple started offering a year or so ago
bonch: The keyboard looks just like Apple's flat keyboard introduced a few years ago, the trackpad is a clone of the Apple Trackpad.
bonch: A Slashdot employee recently told me that my comments generate more moderations than any he's ever seen.
(why the hell were you talking to a Slashdot employee?)
The last Google of stolen credit cards was run by the FBI.
Who freaking cares?!! Get a life! I hope you all get modded into oblivion
Out of curiously, I tried to visit MegaSearch.cc.
1. My 1st block of the site: http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/megasearch.cc
2. My 2nd block of the site: My Malwarebytes stopped the site from loading.
I have no desire to visit this site but thought you guys may want to use my apps to help you keep out of trouble.
Just a thought...
Now I'm a pro-Microsoft shill? I haven't even used a Microsoft product since 2005. This is getting surreal. I'm beginning to think you're the one posting all these shill posts arguing back and forth just to soak up mod points and waste everyone's time.
I think you need to find a better use of your time, my friend (being serious here). Not going to respond again to this stuff because it's a distraction to the conversation.
- bonch
Reminds me of a email list that used to send out the addresses of the "Darknet" about 20 years ago. Also why do I have an imagine of Ice T yelling at Keanu Reeves.
... before they were searchable.
Funny that this should surface NOW, right before SOPA is voted on.....I smell a conspiracy....Seriously we need another word for conspiracy, mere mention of the word and people think your stark raving mad.
Makes me miss astalavista
It doesn't look like these guys plan to give up. Eventually the furor will die down and these bastards will get their way. We can't shut down the Internet to protest every day. The idea is to have a tech solution ready before then. IPV6 should help. We have about 3 months to engineer a resilient, fault-tolerant congress-proof Othernet. Hopefully the Right People are all over this, and a solution will come in time to save us from the CNN'ification of the interwebs. I'm really not looking forward to getting my Internet through a VPN to Vanuatu. The ping times totally suck.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
One area where you went wrong is ending your posts with a command to mod the posts down. Slashdotters hate being told what to do. Also, you're mentioning corporations and PR too much without providing any details, so it comes off like random vengefulness, which immediately gets downmods. In addition, your premise is flimsy because the bonch account is perceived as pro-Apple, not pro-Microsoft.
You also need to preview your posts more. You keep getting HTML formatting wrong.
More importantly, now there's one place where you can enter your credit card number and see who all has been stealing it.
... indentity theives have to create private accounts in cyber crime stores. o_O
When they're buying their batch of stolen credit card numbers, probably with another stolen credit card number, does the store then steal the stolen credit card number and start using it themselves? Which they might then add to the next batch of stolen credit card numbers... which the identity thief might then buy back the next time he buys a new batch of stolen credit card numbers...
... it's the cycle of crime!
Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
Now there's a companion to the 'Facebook of pr0n' I keep reading about on the...library.
The only surefire protection against Microsoft infections is abstinence. - The Onion
The most informative news that i find and i am interested to know more about google. uswebauthority
i shall return
Never say never. Ah!! I did it again!
So they will collect all kind of info about you and sell it to their real customers.
Fandroids hate facts.
As someone who has been using the internet since before thw www existed (and used Google as early as its second prototype in 1998 and ever since), as well as many other search engines before Google was created (Lycos, Hotbot, Altavista and many, many others) I can say definitively that Google is the success that is today BECAUSE Altavista (note: the op said astalavista, which I think was a search engine aggregator) sucked so badly. In the late 90's, you could only count on an index update on Altavista every 6 fucking months or so! Abd Altavisra was the best of a bad group.
Altavista had some good search options, like stemwords and wildcards and the "near" operator, but its database was a dead pile of shit. It wasn't even steaming. Alravista was good idea in its earlt days, but Digital Equipment (who ownes it at the time) starved it for capital. They were on their downward slide with their hideously overpriced and unbderperfroming Vaxes and uVaxes anyway and they were starved for cash becuae they were arrogant and turbed their noses the internet. hey were pushing big iron and Vaxnet, baby, and they were goiing to tell the world where to go.
Sorry, but fuck natural language searches - thet're for the technically incomperant. If you can't formulate successful Google searches without the anthropomorphizing the seaech, the problem is with YOU, not Google.
errors. I hit submit instead of preview.
If you don't like it, complain to your inflatable dolls.
Now let me pay for it with this credit card number. It's real, really. I wouldn't rip you off, sir!
Be seeing you...
Kim Schmitz, aka "Kimble," the snake-oil "hacker" has a thing for the word "mega." He had a custom-built "Megacar," is rumoured to be the one behind "Megaupload.com." And now we have another one, "megasearch."
Attrition.org has a nice dossier on this phoney baloney hacker. Why people keep falling for his scams is beyond me.
I'm not going to give my cc to a dodgy website to test it for possible fraudulent behaviour
So their company motto is "Be Evil?"
From TFS:
...an array of dodgy goods and services, from stolen credit card numbers to identity information and anonymity tools.
Nice how "anonymity tools" are lumped in with the truly nefarious stuff. If it is an FBI (or whatever) honeypot, that would fit, as they don't want citizens to have access to any kind of anonymity. After all, if you have nothing to hide...
- T