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Police Planning New Raid On The Pirate Bay
An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak reports that Swedish authorities are gearing up for another raid on the servers of The Pirate Bay. The site was raided once before, in 2006, and the evidence gathered at that time was sufficient to convict its founders. 'The authorities have obtained warrants to snoop around in sensitive places and two known anti-piracy prosecutors, Frederick Ingblad and Henrik Rasmusson, are said to be involved. Employing a little psychological warfare aimed at putting the investigators off-balance, the Pirate Bay team has chosen to make the news public to make the authorities aware that they are not the only ones being watched.'"
I don't use TPB much so this is the first I've heard of that. How is magnet link support in rtorrent these days?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Good timing, with the magnet link only deployment of torrent files...
don't tell anyone...
ceci n'est pas un sig
... and let the cops find it first...
Now a "news" article essentially amounts to "someone posted a message about someone telling them that someone else said they'd..."
Are you serious? That chain of "evidence" is worse than most small town gossip!
And even if it's true -- so what? As convenient as it is, TPB is hardly the only torrent site in the world...
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Since the piratebay IPs are blocked by my ISP these days (and redirect me to http://www.xs4all.nl/geblokkeerd/ ) I have to use a proxy to get around it.
Here's a link for those of you in the same boat: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://thepiratebay.se/blog/209
American cops have these weird things that I'm not even going to try to describe. Come to think, I would be far less inclined to cross a cop who was armed with a sword than I would a cop with the aforementioned weird stick thingy.
Tonfa?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
It may soon become unavailable & a piece of history (collector's item). ;-)
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
Help with the backup. You can own the entire contents of TPB by downloading just 90MB of magnet links in one torrent here: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7016365/The_whole_Pirate_Bay_magnet_archive
Bog off ya bastids. I uploaded some of my own work there last week.
Hopefully they will leave it there.
I put my books on Amazon, Smashwords, Demonoid, ISOHunt and Pirate Bay. Search for 'Michael Cargill'
What is this I don't even
After consultation with several linguistic experts, I believe the closest English translation would be:
"I am fucking retarded"
It should be noted though that Retard is difficult to properly translate in it's written form, as it has only 3 known phrases, all of which are spelled identically, which is to say all of which are spelled with any random combination of characters. As such, it's entirely possible the OP was actually trying to say:
"I've done far far too many drugs"
or
"I've stopped taking my medication"
New TPB investigation leaked
TPB is not hosted in -insert country here-, as far as we know. "As far as we know?" you might ask! Yes. TPB is set up in a very special way to make sure that it will stay up. This means that noone really knows exactly where the servers are, but we've made sure to stay out of the United States of Arrogance and some other countries where the governments do not like free speech.
The only box someone could find is the one in the front, that needs to be public. We have multiple of those, scattered like diarrhea around the world. They contain no storage device, no graphics card. Only a network cable, a cpu and memory. Being nice people, we've put small easters egg into each box though, for the hard work put into finding that public machine! Nothing dangerous though, just funny.
Even though this means that TPB can never be pin-pointed to a certain country, the Swedish district attorney Fredrik Ingblad initiated a new investigation into The Pirate Bay back in 2010. Information has been leaked to us every now and then by multiple sources, almost on a regular basis. It's an interesting read. We can certainly understand why WikiLeaks wished to be hosted in Sweden, since so much data leaks there. The reason that we get the leaks is usually that the whistleblowers does not agree with what is going on. Something that the governments should have in mind - even your own people does not agree.
Since our recent move to a .SE domain the investigation has been cranked up a notch. We think that the investigation is interesting considering nothing that TPB does is illegal. Rather we find it interesting that a country like Sweden is being so abused by lobbyists and that this can be kept up. They're using scare tactics, putting pressure on the wrong people, like providers and users. All out of fear from the big country in the west, and with an admiration for their big fancy wallets.
We're staying put where we are. We're going no-where. But we have a message to hollywood, the investigators and the prosecutors: LOL.
... get GPS signals in most real server rooms.
Yep, though they are usually called nightsticks (generic name for a club, actually).
Though part of me wishes we used sasumata.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
"New TPB investigation leaked
TPB is not hosted in -insert country here-, as far as we know. "As far as we know?" you might ask! Yes. TPB is set up in a very special way to make sure that it will stay up. This means that noone really knows exactly where the servers are, but we've made sure to stay out of the United States of Arrogance and some other countries where the governments do not like free speech.
The only box someone could find is the one in the front, that needs to be public. We have multiple of those, scattered like diarrhea around the world. They contain no storage device, no graphics card. Only a network cable, a cpu and memory. Being nice people, we've put small easters egg into each box though, for the hard work put into finding that public machine! Nothing dangerous though, just funny.
Even though this means that TPB can never be pin-pointed to a certain country, the Swedish district attorney Fredrik Ingblad initiated a new investigation into The Pirate Bay back in 2010. Information has been leaked to us every now and then by multiple sources, almost on a regular basis. It's an interesting read. We can certainly understand why WikiLeaks wished to be hosted in Sweden, since so much data leaks there. The reason that we get the leaks is usually that the whistleblowers does not agree with what is going on. Something that the governments should have in mind - even your own people does not agree.
Since our recent move to a .SE domain the investigation has been cranked up a notch. We think that the investigation is interesting considering nothing that TPB does is illegal. Rather we find it interesting that a country like Sweden is being so abused by lobbyists and that this can be kept up. They're using scare tactics, putting pressure on the wrong people, like providers and users. All out of fear from the big country in the west, and with an admiration for their big fancy wallets.
We're staying put where we are. We're going no-where. But we have a message to hollywood, the investigators and the prosecutors: LOL.
Posted Today 11:46 by Leakblad"
Except GPS is trivial to spoof, with hardware or RF, or just supplying the servers' previous coordinates as the key. Passwords are protection, but not against a subpoena, as failing to provide them means automatic jailtime.
while(1) attack(People.Sandy);
More than half a decade after Swedish police officers first raided The Pirate Bay, there is talk that a second police raid against the world’s most famous torrent site is in the planning. The Pirate Bay team has learned that local authorities have acquired warrants to take action against the site, and expect that both servers and the new
In the spring of 2006 a team of 65 Swedish police personnel entered a datacenter in Stockholm. The officers were tasked with shutting down the largest threat to the entertainment industry at the time – The Pirate Bay’s servers.
The raid eventually led to the conviction of four people connected to The Pirate Bay, but the site itself remained online.
Today, the Pirate Bay team has informed TorrentFreak that a second raid is being prepared by the Swedish authorities. The site’s operators, who are well-connected in multiple ways, learned that a team of Swedish investigators is gearing up to move against the site in the future. The suspicions were also made public by The Pirate Bay a few minutes ago. “The Swedish district attorney Fredrik Ingblad initiated a new investigation into The Pirate Bay back in 2010. Information has been leaked to us every now and then by multiple sources, almost on a regular basis. It’s an interesting read,” the Pirate Bay crew notes. “We can certainly understand why WikiLeaks wished to be hosted in Sweden, since so much data leaks there. The reason that we get the leaks is usually that the whistleblowers do not agree with what is going on. Something that the governments should have in mind – even your own people do not agree.” The Pirate Bay team confirmed to TorrentFreak that the announcement is no prank. The authorities have obtained warrants to snoop around in sensitive places and two known anti-piracy prosecutors, Frederick Ingblad and Henrik Rasmusson, are said to be involved. Employing a little psychological warfare aimed at putting the investigators off-balance, the Pirate Bay team has chosen to make the news public to make the authorities aware that they are not the only ones being watched. According to The Pirate Bay team they aren’t doing anything illegal, but nonetheless they noticed that the investigation intensified after the site’s recent move to a .SE domain. “Since our recent move to a .SE domain the investigation has been cranked up a notch. We think that the investigation is interesting considering nothing that TPB does is illegal,” they say. “Rather we find it interesting that a country like Sweden is being so abused by lobbyists and that this can be kept up. They’re using scare tactics, putting pressure on the wrong people, like providers and users. All out of fear from the big country in the west, and with an admiration for their big fancy wallets.” Behind the scenes The Pirate Bay team is working hard to ensure that the site will remain online in the event that servers, domain names and Internet routes are cut off. In this regard The Pirate Bay has learned a valuable lesson from its former operators. Those who are aware of the site’s history know that without a few essential keystrokes in May 2006, The Pirate Bay may not have been here today. When Pirate Bay founder TiAMO heard that something was amiss, he decided to make a full backup of the site before heading off to the datacenter, where he was greeted by dozens of police officers.
TiAMO’s decision to start a backup of the site is probably the most pivotal moment in the site’s history. Because of this backup the Pirate Bay team were able to resurrect the site within three days. If there hadn’t have been a recent backup, things may have turned out quite differently. It was a close call at the time, and a defining moment in the history of the site. The dete
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
I was under the impression that the site was hosted by the pirate party as a function of office now and thus gained immunity to prosecution in Sweden?
Ridiculous. Using GPS as part of your password is just.... ready for it... a password!
A password cracker would try many different GPS coordinates instead of many different words and letters.
Even easier, because if you have some knowledge of the datas original location the password cracker can try starting at that location and spiraling out from there.
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American cops have these weird things that I'm not even going to try to describe. Come to think, I would be far less inclined to cross a cop who was armed with a sword than I would a cop with the aforementioned weird stick thingy.
Tonfa?
Anyone who has played Sierra's Police Quest could tell you that is a PR-24 Nightstick ;)
Are you referring to a tonfa? A tonfa is like a small baton with an extra handle/grip at 90 degrees from the rest of the baton. It's otherwise known as a night stick. It's basically a standard billy club, except the extra handle is added so it can be used defensively (to protect the forearm) and to make it harder to pull out of the bearer's hand.
There is not way a sword is less of a threat than a night stick.
Perhaps try adding that to your hosts file?
Tor should also help you bypass censorship.
Artix
Your Linux, your init.
Nah, I just did some digging (caffeine made me less-lazy and Google and I think they're called "telescopic batons." Image: http://www.protectyourhomeandfamily.com/files/1978296/uploaded/TSB.jpg
I'm pretty sure that's what I saw and I definitely remember part of it being foamy (very NERF-like) and feeling pretty flimsy.
Of course, I'm of the opinion that police brass are trying to phase out physical means of submission in favor of things like mace and tasers because they don't leave ugly bruises for the media and defense attorneys to use against them. Frankly, I'd rather get whacked in the head with a stick than get tased or maced. Less likely than the taser to kill me and probably doesn't hurt as long as the mace (unless they break something).
The police are panning a new RAID on the pirate bay? Cool! How many TB will they be adding?
Anyone who has played Sierra's Police Quest could tell you that is a PR-24 Nightstick ;)
Does the "PR" stand for "Public Relations"?
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
The PR-24 Nightstick. Also known as the PR Nightmare.
Kind of hard to casually stroll into a coffee shop, or a mall, or to get in and out of squad cars with a 2 meter pole covered in barbs and sharp pointy bits; but it would look bad-ass.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
It seems to me that a taser could be defeated with a tinfoil undershirt, or conductive foam.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Indeed. But they could use one of these instead, the modern evolution of the things. Bonus points if you employ the metal shield too!
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
I though a "nightstick" was... never mind.
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is that the investigations, etc, already took place ;)
Pirate raid POLICE!
This sig is not paradoxical or ironic.
This might be more comfortable.
http://www.twpinc.com/wire-mesh/TWPCAT_10
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Actually that could be quite a cool thing...
Use the GPS cordinates as a seed..
Password( sha224( sha224(password), RNG-seed(gps-cordinates), salt) )
Doing this would allow for a number of things...
GPS equipment would need a pin to be used as a salt - no way to verify if it's correct...
Input password+pin on GPS. GPS generates 2 sha224 values it sends to the server.
Server in turn does a brute-force, starting at the latest known position, of all degrees the world over. 36000*18000 (if we use two decimals) and that would be 648000000 checks.. Should be doable within a few seconds... Even using 2 decimals for the Lat/Long it should be doable.. This should be done so the server always returns after a specific amount of time for both successful and unsuccessful logins..
Even if you managed to get a hold of a password file and seed, but without the location-access-data, and managed to do a brute-force attack on the password it would be impossible to even attempt a bruteforce attack against the server since the server could actually trace where the specified last location was and if going to fast over the world then it would just lock the account..
It would be impossible to do any type of brute-force attempt since the server could easily store a log of the location for the last attempted login and if not correct and moving too fast more than (say 100km/h if last attempt was less than 10 min ago and 800km/h if last attempt was 2h ago to allow for flights) it would make it practically impossible to do an actual attack even if all required hardware was located..
By doing it this way we allow for the following:
- Pin of the GPS to be used as a seed.. Maybe not even needed..
- GPS Cordinates as a sha224.. Sure a rainbow-table on that one is not hard..
- sha224( sha224(password) + sha224(gps) ) makes it a real problem... Even for short passwords since we throw in the location data.. add as many loops in a sha224 function as needed to make the login be atleast 2 seconds..
- The server can know from where the user last tried to login, if moving too fast then just start returning login-errors for everything..
For reference in the below part.. 0.01 degrees is ~ 1.8km.
2 seconds real login-time - say 3 with network latencey and server-added time and trying to scan an area of 100*100km (0.54x0.54 degrees) would require ~2916 tries... ie 3*2916 ~ 2.4h and calculating the speed the person travels for that time would be 1.8km per 3 seconds...So the actual time it would take to do a bruteforce would be : .0277777777 km/second - to scan 0.01x0.54 degrees would be ~ 1h (user goes as 100km/h)..
1h * 54 = 54 hours..
And doing detection on bruteforce-attempts like that would be *very* easy..
well I made a copy of their t shirt and I suppose I could make unlimited more copies for all my friends
Expandable baton. Commonly referred to as an ASP (which is a company who makes these batons). They are quite effective (even deadly) when properly used.
My spoon is too big.
oh, yes, the Polizei in the UK now have:
pepper spray
Glock pistols
H&K MP5 automatic carbines
and the famous tonfa derivative, the Monadnock PR-24 (I have one, I carry it when out hunting).
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
Would be easier to use a 256-bit 3-cascade differential encryption and a 63-character password (which combination would take more time to break with a bruteforce than the Universe has been in existence) - and then suffer PTSD-induced amnesia.
Fuck, but you people have a knack for overcomplicating things!
Operation Guillotine is in effect.