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The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS

An anonymous reader writes "After being the victim of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by an unknown party, The Pirate Bay has returned. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that kept the site offline for days."

122 comments

  1. Works for the feds? by cpu6502 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    QUOTE: I am Nyre. I am highly against Anonymous. I do not support Anonymous anymore. I sometimes help the feds.

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    1. Re:Works for the feds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Translation: I'll be a real hacker when I grow up.

    2. Re:Works for the feds? by Infiniti2000 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Helping them and working for them are two very different things. Nyre may simply have desired to support the Feds on a particular issue.

    3. Re:Works for the feds? by Dunbal · · Score: 2

      Feds != MPAA. Oh wait, yes they are.

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    4. Re:Works for the feds? by noh8rz3 · · Score: 0

      The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS

      it wasn't me, I swear!

      -noh8rz3

    5. Re:Works for the feds? by SomePgmr · · Score: 1

      The Pirate Bay, I am so f******* pissed, WHY THERE IS NO ANAL PORN IN HERE. F*** YOU PIRATE BAY.
      F*** that shit, N**** Bay.

      Doesn't sound like proxy action on behalf of the feds.

    6. Re:Works for the feds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      it wasn't me, I swear!

      me neither!

      -AC

    7. Re:Works for the feds? by NickFortune · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Nyre may simply have desired to support the Feds on a particular issue.

      Or maybe the feds trained someone from the MPAA to use twitter, and then thought "I know a cool way to turn to major anti-establishment groups against one another."

      Of course, this is assuming that no-one from the MPAA is smart enough to learn how to use twitter for themselves. Which is doing them a massive disservice, I'm sure...

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    8. Re:Works for the feds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or maybe it's a random individual who disagrees with Anonymous and The Pirate Bay.

      Mmmmm, naaaaaaaaah, that's impossible. How could anyone disagree with our subculture and its radical methods of I-can't-believe-it's-not-terrorism? We're from the internet, after all. That means we're smart. So, logically, it's impossible to disagree with us unless you're a big mean government or corporation. How silly of me to even suggest it.

    9. Re:Works for the feds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or maybe it's a random individual who disagrees with Anonymous and The Pirate Bay.

      Mmmmm, naaaaaaaaah, that's impossible. How could anyone disagree with our subculture and its radical methods of I-can't-believe-it's-not-terrorism? We're from the internet, after all. That means we're smart. So, logically, it's impossible to disagree with us unless you're a big mean government or corporation. How silly of me to even suggest it.

      Well at least you know what you did wrong.

    10. Re:Works for the feds? by Hentes · · Score: 2

      This whole thing sounds fake to me.

    11. Re:Works for the feds? by Dishevel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Feds != **AA
      Feds are a wholly owned subsidiary of the **AAs.

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    12. Re:Works for the feds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dell servers == Anal Rape.

      Ever worked on an IBM xSeries?

      If Dell is like anal rape, then xSeries is like sticking a Dremel in your pee hole and pulling the trigger.

    13. Re:Works for the feds? by ultranova · · Score: 1

      Feds are a wholly owned subsidiary of the **AAs.

      Hardly. There are plenty of corporations who hold interests there besides just media corporations. Feds is to moneyed interests like RIAA is to media corporations.

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    14. Re:Works for the feds? by X0563511 · · Score: 1

      Nothing wrong with that either, only with what the given "issue" might be. Eg, I'd have no compunctions of helping to nail a child-porn producer.

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  2. Thank god! by arcite · · Score: 5, Funny

    I almost thought I wouldn't be able to download the rest of ST:TNG. Gotta see how season 7 ends!

    1. Re:Thank god! by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 3, Funny

      Picard wakes up in a prison camp and it was all a dream

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    2. Re:Thank god! by LordNicholas · · Score: 1

      Picard's crazy, Geordi can see, and everything is Q's fault.

    3. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      TPB doesn't run a tracker anymore. TPB being down would not have disrupted your download.

    4. Re:Thank god! by NNUfergs · · Score: 1

      Really? You know every episode of every season of every series is streaming on Netflix.

    5. Re:Thank god! by MightyMartian · · Score: 1

      Don't be daft. He wakes up in a whore house where he discovers he's actually a "working girl" who has a fondness for Romulan Ale.

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    6. Re:Thank god! by cpu6502 · · Score: 2

      TNG season 7 ends with a great finale to wrap the show.
      Too bad the rest of the season is suckish.

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    7. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      42 minutes into the episode, Data discovers a solution to the crisis and saves everyone.

    8. Re:Thank god! by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

      "LaForge here, we're geeting a whoosh sound from the phase inducers!"

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      "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

    9. Re:Thank god! by cpghost · · Score: 1

      Picard wakes up in a prison camp and it was all a dream

      ... and then he woke up from that dream and he found out he was Sisko in a psychiatric ward.

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      cpghost at Cordula's Web.
    10. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      .....THERE.....ARE......FOUR.......LIGHTS !!!

      Stupid filter won't let me post this memorable quote without extra text because it's all in caps... When is Clippy going to be integrated into Slashdot. I heard he was looking for a new job... "Hey I see your commenting on a website. Let me help you with that...".

    11. Re:Thank god! by isorox · · Score: 1

      TNG season 7 ends with a great finale to wrap the show.
      Too bad the rest of the season is suckish.

      Parallels was alright. Attached too Journey's End wasn't the end of the world, and Preemptive strike was good.

    12. Re:Thank god! by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 2

      "For only $7.99 a month."

    13. Re:Thank god! by DigitAl56K · · Score: 2

      arcite,

      This is Lieutenant Commander Data, attempting to communicate with you through a sub-space channel modulating the reality you are currently perceiving through the 21st century website "Slashdot". An unknown being has locked us out of the holodeck where you are being held and filmed as part of Season 7. Whatever you do, do not initiate the .torrent from TPB. Doing so may trigger a paradox singularity destroying the fabric of space-time. After all, you wouldn't steal a car...

    14. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The episode with Beverly Crusher and the spirit flame alien that's been with the women in her family for generations was probably the worst episode in the entire series.

    15. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      arcite,

      This is Spock in the Alternate Universe. I became aware of the sub-space channel and my attempt to patch into it was met with success. I agree with Lt. Cmdr. Data; his reasoning is sound and his conclusion logical. However, the 'magnetic link' available at the same location requires no interaction with the .torrent file. I believe you are now in Earth Year 2012, the last episode aired May 23, 1994 which would put you at an estimated temporal distance of 17 years, 360 days and 2 hours, putting you well over the Falkvinge Contrition Limit.

    16. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It wasn't down for me, so I'm not sure what this "story" is about. Been using it just fine.

    17. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "For only $7.99 a month."

      Because heaven forbid anyone actually pay for content. It should all be free, at someone else's expense.

    18. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here you go ( all seasons ) :

        magnet:?xt=urn:btih:30764610642571B3C01AF11D6CE60CFA164D7EE3&dn=Star%20Trek%20The%20Next%20Generation%20Season%201%2c%202%2c%203%2c%204%2c%205%2c%206%20%26%207%20Deluxe%20DVD%20Boxset%20%2b%20Extras%20in%20HD&tr=udp%3a//tracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80

      That's what's often forgotten about tpb : you may stop the site who puts it all together, but it's the people who seed it, and you can never stop all of us.

    19. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The last episode of TNG aired in 1994, that's 18 years ago, I think they milked it plenty. I didn't have pay for it back then, when it came on UPN, why should I now? Also, it's not like these people are starving because of this. If TV companies want to make money all they have to do is upload their content to something like HULU and they can put adds on it. People can pay for the ads to be removed but the content and all content should be available for free. I'm working on a career in the media industry and I still believe that whole-heartedly. When you put things behind a pay-wall the only thing you do is keep poor people out. It's class warfare.

    20. Re:Thank god! by Belial6 · · Score: 1

      Stop teasing the guy. Everyone knows it ends with Picard turning on a light, and viewers see Picard in bed, saying, "Honey, you won't believe the dream I just had." to his wife Emily played by Suzanne Pleshette.

    21. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stop teasing the guy. Everyone knows it ends with Picard turning on a light, and viewers see Picard in bed, saying, "Honey, you won't believe the dream I just had." to his wife Emily played by Suzanne Pleshette.

      Emily? What universe are you living in.

      He wakes up and turns to his wife, Riker.

    22. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe in the USA, but I just checked for the UK and no, it's not.

      Although apparently they do consider Stuart Little 2 Sci-Fi. Oh and they actually had the temerity to try and tempt me to pay £5.99 a month with Mall Cop.

      Legitimate means once again fail the convenience test.

    23. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It also does not work on Linux. That is the reason I cancelled my subscription. I'm there is hacking that could be done to make it think you are running Windows, but what's the point? Why would I want to make Linux appear to be Windows in ANY situation? Otherwise I would never have made the switch.

    24. Re:Thank god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Heaven forbid anyone not wanting to be charged for something they already paid for. Everything should be on a subscription model and nobody should be able to actually own anything.

    25. Re:Thank god! by mcgrew · · Score: 1

      That's not a solution if you're running Linux.

    26. Re:Thank god! by mcgrew · · Score: 2

      You jest, but I still haven't seen the last season of Voyager. The station that carried it changed networks right before the last season, and it wasn't available here at all. I've looked for it on the shelves of stores, but never saw anything past season 2.

      I'm going to HAVE to pirate it to see it.

    27. Re:Thank god! by crAckZ · · Score: 1

      ....and then he wakes up only to find that he is in DiCaprio's dream. DAMN you Inception. DAMN YOU TO HELL

  3. Except it didn't. by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 4, Informative

    kept the site offline for days

    As several people pointed out in the last article, getting to the site was trivial.
    It was hardly down.

    --
    What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
    1. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      access was pretty difficult last night around 11-12, I had to page halfway through their proxy list before I found a good mirror. So, I went to the three I knew thepiratebay.org, thepiratebay.se, thepiratebay.co.uk, then the proxy list from their fb profile, and the first dozen or so proxies were down as well.

    2. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Funny definition of "retarded" you have there.

      I'm a neurosurgeon. A coworker called me up last night asking if I knew a different way for him to download a movie since it was down. I can guarantee he's much, much smarter than you. He just doesn't know computers. Really, why should anyone? That's why we pay 8 bucks an hour to people, so we can concentrate on more important things.

    3. Re:Except it didn't. by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      When I was searching for the mirrors, it was funny to see in google "The world's most resilient bittorrent - The Pirate Bay" and then... it doesn't work.

    4. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Worked for me.

    5. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Me too, and I almost never go there. I went there to see if it was working, and for sure it was.

    6. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Really, why should anyone?

      Because then you can illegally download movies even when there are minor technical obstacles to overcome without ringing up you son and telling him the "Internet is broken". Computers are a hell of a lot easier to learn to use competently than a scalpel, and the underlying principles are simpler (client/server, OS/applications, Internet/browser, etc etc), so the only thing keeping you ignorant of them is your own predjudice against those "people less important than yourself" and laziness. No one is saying you need to recompile your own Linux kernel and write a driver for your new DaVinci surgical robot, but if you want in on things like BitTorrent, you need to step up a bit.

    7. Re:Except it didn't. by Iniamyen · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm a neurosurgeon.

      Really? It says you are an AC.

    8. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Me too, though I have been going there since btjunkie closed (RIP).

    9. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I bet the butthurt of knowing less than a "computer loser" really chaps your ass, eh?

    10. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      googling is too hard is it?

    11. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yeah it was funny i couldnt get to it either through a normal connection but the site was fully functional (not even slow to load) through tor. so i figured the so-called ddos was localised somewhere.

    12. Re:Except it didn't. by hazah · · Score: 1

      8 bucks an hour eh? Interesting perception. I think you tinkered with yourself too much.

    13. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yeah, id like to know where he is finding techs for $8 an hour. ill outsource my job for that kind of rate.

    14. Re:Except it didn't. by morari · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Really, why should anyone? That's why we pay 8 bucks an hour to people, so we can concentrate on more important things.

      The same reason you should have a basic understanding of how your vehicle works and be able to at least change the oil and spark plugs when need be. Sure you could go pay some grease monkey to do it all for you, but then you're being exploited due to sheer laziness. If your comfortable existence depends upon something, such as vehicles or communications networks, then you should try to be as self sufficient as possible in its use. As a doctor, I'm sure you expect your patients to have a basic understanding of how their bodies work and how to properly maintain them. Wait, you'd rather they didn't. Why else would they come to you, right? It sure would be hard for you to get out from all of that student loan debt if you didn't have misinformed patients to scam and exploit.*

      *See, playing the elitist can easily work both ways.

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      "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
    15. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I'm a neurosurgeon" Sure you are guy. And I'm an olympic gold medalist astronaut Nobel Prize winner. Seriously, why the fuck do you idiots lie about shit like that?

    16. Re:Except it didn't. by ifwm · · Score: 1

      Well, since he's a "neurosurgeon" (uh huh...) he probably knows a good dermatologist.

    17. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Must be hard to do brain surgery living under that bridge and all

    18. Re:Except it didn't. by loufoque · · Score: 2

      That's why we pay 8 bucks an hour to people

      Sorry to disappoint, but an IT consultant costs 10 times as much as that.

    19. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I'm a neurosurgeon... I can guarantee he's much, much smarter than you."

      I'm a Physicist for JPL. I work in Orbital Mechanics. I'd be happy to measure my dick against a couple of "doctors" any time you like.

    20. Re:Except it didn't. by cheekyjohnson · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I can guarantee he's much, much smarter than you.

      Since when is someone else more intelligent than someone else merely because they can do something the other can't? Computers included.

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    21. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well...duh! They probably even have degrees from an accredited university of higher learning!!! WHAT MORE PROOF DO YOU WANT?!?!

    22. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This.
      What are people talking about?
      I just googled for whatever I wanted and downloaded from piratebay like normal.
      Was he attacking some specific mirror or something?

    23. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Arrogant miserable fuck.

    24. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sorry to disappoint, but an IT consultant costs 10 times as much as that.

      I would work for only 3 times that number right now if someone would hire me. :(

      Anything less than that and it doesn't cover day care.

    25. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sounds like it. The retard probably DDoS'd a mirror site or two. OH MY GOD INTERNETS ARE DOWN.
      Kid should learn how the DNS and internet works.

      I never had a single problem accessing it.

    26. Re:Except it didn't. by Aethelred+Unread · · Score: 0

      Good thing we have people like you at the helm! How many IT staff does your hospital have? Almost as many nerds as docotrs I would imagine. Unless you don't like having a working hospital.

    27. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Neurosurgery, huh?

      Well, it's not rocket science.

      - A Rocket Scientist

    28. Re:Except it didn't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or, in my case, about 20 times that. Sadly that's what the customer pays, not what I get...

    29. Re:Except it didn't. by techybod · · Score: 1

      best post this month :D

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    30. Re:Except it didn't. by X0563511 · · Score: 1

      Oh, a neurosurgeon eh? Well, I'm a rocket scientist. Oh wait, no... I'm a world renowned entomologist. Wait, no...

      See, I can claim to be anyone.

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    31. Re:Except it didn't. by mcgrew · · Score: 1

      The same reason you should have a basic understanding of how your vehicle works and be able to at least change the oil and spark plugs when need be.

      I have a basic understanding of how my car works, and use to maintain my own cars all the time. Hell, I've changed clutches. When I had that damned Mustang I spent more time under the hood than behind the wheel (Fix Or Repai Daily). Now? It took a trained mechanic 45 minutes to change my battery, since he had to remove the wheel, fender, and wheel well to get to it. It would have taken me all day, it was money well spent. 25 years ago I would have spent five minutes and a crescent wrench to do it. I'd rather have paid a mechanic to spend 15 minutes changing the water pump on my old '74 LeMans rather than two hours in the hot sun, but I couldn't afford mechanics back then.

      Plus, if I had changed the battery by myself, who knows what I might have screwed up? It's the same with computers. I'm fine working on my own computers rather than getting a half-assed job for way too much much money at the Geek Squad, but Joe Normal may know the basics of his computer, but do you really think he needs to know how to fdisk and reinstall an OS, or swap out a hard drive?

      There's no reason to know how to change your oil, just that you need to know when and why.

      Neurosurgeons make shitloads of money. He'd be a fool to spend five times as long as it takes you while risking making a n00b mistake. Retarded? Sorry, son, you're the confused one here.

    32. Re:Except it didn't. by psiclops · · Score: 1

      I can guarantee he's much, much smarter than you.

      you can guarantee that someone is much, much smarter than someone else whom you don't have the faintest idea who is, and whom your entire knowledge of is 1 sentence that they wrote on some website.

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  4. Powering up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And now, Anonymous, try to dodge my special beam cannon attack!

  5. So basically... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kids aren't getting enough attention doing bot/channel war ddosing on IRC anymore so they turn them on high profile websites for whatever pretend outrage they can conjur up in their idiotic little brains.

    We got it, 15 years ago.

  6. Still don't think it was a DDoS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I still don't think it was a DDoS. First, all the well known mirrors still worked, rather than being targeted as well. Second, the traffic for the pirate bay, at least for my computer, disappeared whenever it entered AT&T's part of the network (hop 5) instead of transversing it. And third, many other people report the same thing with different big pipes. All that suggests to me is bad routing information.

    1. Re:Still don't think it was a DDoS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was thinking the same thing. If it was a DDoS, would it not be roughly as inaccessible to the proxies as it would to anyone else?

      (I fully admit that I'm retarded when it comes to networking... and life...)

    2. Re:Still don't think it was a DDoS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      True, I haven't noticed anything even tho I use PB daily.. Is this US service providers' chicanery or accidental?

    3. Re:Still don't think it was a DDoS by Sigg3.net · · Score: 1

      No, no. It was a hattack.

      - Access mainframe
      Err
      - Access firewall gateway
      Err
      - Access internal network
      Err

      *sigh*...

      Oh, wait!

      - Access backdoor
      Access granted

      Yes!

      - Download secret*.zip.
      Downloading confidential information

  7. And.. by nirgle · · Score: 1

    And nothing of value was truly lost.

  8. It was down? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It was down? Who knew...

  9. THIS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Only joking, fuck you.

    1. Re:THIS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      fuck you.

      I second that motion.

  10. The DDoS failed anyway... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Because thepiratebay.ee was still working fine.

  11. Say wat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre
    An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name
    Anonymous...who goes by the name....

    1. Re:Say wat? by Iniamyen · · Score: 1

      "Anonymous" is in reference to the Anonymous meme (n), rather than the named person actually being anonymous (adj), which as you pointed out, would be ridiculous.

  12. Was it even DDoS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can someone explain to me how a DDoS attack could possibly leave the site up-and-running fast in some regions while being blocked by up-stream routers in other regions?

    That doesn't look characteristic of a DDoS attack to me.

    1. Re:Was it even DDoS? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 2

      TPB doesn't work like a traditional website. It's more like a darknet site made accessible through a number of public portals. It seems like the "portal" for the US and some surrounding areas was taken down, it was available in other areas and the proxies still worked.

      --
      "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
    2. Re:Was it even DDoS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Neither TPB nor BitTorrent are darknets. If you only connected to friend/trusted peers, however, BitTorrent would be a darknet.

  13. Anonymous is anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Still Slashdot and similar sites try to twist "Anonymous" into being "Someone" as desperate as others try to twist "Atheism" into (just another) "Theism" or refer to Gervernments as is they were countries or the population of a country.

    If we would use language to its fullest potential all this wouldn't even be news.

    A lifelong Education helps.

  14. nuts by bs0d3 · · Score: 4, Interesting
  15. FUD? by Anachragnome · · Score: 2

    FUD? Maybe. Quite possibly. Easy enough to pull off with backdoors into almost everything, provided you have access to those backdoors. Guess who has the most access to them?

    That being said, and I made this realization long ago, is that by the very nature of "Anonymous" one must assume that at any time the entire situation could be a scam and that possibility never goes away. Since no one can be absolutely sure who, exactly, Anonymous is, one must assume it can be anybody.

    Therefore, whenever I see the word anonymous used in the sense that we are now speaking, I automatically replace the word with "somebody". For example, let's use this approach on the very article we discuss.

    "The Pirate Bay Returns, Somebody Hater Takes Credit For DDoS"

    See how that changes things? The headline now leaves it to the reader to decide who the threat is, as opposed to whoever wrote headline...or concocted the event the headline discusses.

    Taking this approach--replacing the word anonymous with the word somebody--removes any control of perception that the source of such misinformation might be trying to wield, effectively defeating the effort.

    1. Re:FUD? by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      An excellent example was when the FBI was running and controlling LulzSec for all those months and launching attacks in the name of 'Anonymous'. For all those months were those FBI agents in control of those attacks members of 'Anonymous' or not. They acted anonymously and the carried out those attacks in the names of 'Anonymous' so by definition they were members of 'Anonymous', now should they arrest themselves, well if any of those attacks that they orchestrated were outside the United States, them the legally correct answer is yes. The should arrest themselves and offer themselves up for extradition to the affected countries and then be prosecuted by those countries for their crimes.

      Now as one of the members of LulzSecwas a minor and the FBI sought to draw the minor into committing a crime, that does make those agents guilty of child abuse. So now 'Anonymous' is officially guilty of child abuse thanks to the no longer anonymous FBI members, talk about dragging 'Anonymous' name through the muck, for those who use the name 'Anonymous' for nothing other than legal protest, thanks for nothing FBI, I mean really computer hacking, DDOS attacks, invasions of privacy, data theft and child abuse all under the watch and control of the FBI.

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      Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
  16. aaaaaaaaaarrrrr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    But why is the rum gone?

  17. Looks like The Jester? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 1

    AnonNyre says "Tango Down" which is The Jester's catchphrase. Motivation lines up too, anti-Wikileaks and anti-Anonymous.

    --
    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
    1. Re:Looks like The Jester? by nstlgc · · Score: 1

      Tango Down is hardly attributable to The Jester. Many anons use this phrase.

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  18. FBI is on the case by 0111+1110 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm sure the FBI will leave no stone unturned and is doing a complete investigation to see if the person responsible is a US citizen or lives in a country with an extradition agreement. They will find this villain and put him behind bars, right? Because of course they don't want it to look like they only investigate cases where a large corporation with lots of bribe money is involved.

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    Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
    1. Re:FBI is on the case by mitcheli · · Score: 2

      As tempting as it might be to point the finger at the FBI for not investigating the attack based on some sort of bias against hackers, I think the more relevant reason would be the fact that the Pirate Bay isn't an American company. A more pointed view on this would be if www.2600.com was DDoS'd whether or not the FBI would investigate that.

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    2. Re:FBI is on the case by cpghost · · Score: 1

      Yes, the FBI will investigate because that DDoS-er dared to stop his attacks... The FBI is firmly in the pockets of the MAFIAA; they'll act accordingly, however bizarre this may seem to us outsiders.

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      cpghost at Cordula's Web.
    3. Re:FBI is on the case by nhat11 · · Score: 0

      Yes because I'm sure the PB have people's personal credit card and SSN stored in their DB.

  19. No honor among... by Caerdwyn · · Score: 1

    There is no honor between the swarm of resent-their-mommies script kiddies and petty credit card thieves that call themselves "Anonymous".

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    Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
    1. Re:No honor among... by Scarred+Intellect · · Score: 1

      There is no honor between the swarm of resent-their-mommies script kiddies and petty credit card thieves that call themselves "Anonymous".

      Awww damn, now you upset them. They're going to take down slashdot...

    2. Re:No honor among... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good. Nothing of value would be lost.

  20. Thank God for mirrors! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    One word: mirrors.

    I downloaded several times more from links pointed to by the tpb via mirrors yesterday than I did from links pointed to directly via tpb all of last month.

    Thanks to all for reminding me to check tpb (via mirrors). I hadn't checked tpb in a couple of weeks.

    It was a very fruitful day.

  21. Excellent Work! by organgtool · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Great job, AnonNyre! For your next target, I recommend taking down Excite search engine and Geocities!

    1. Re:Excellent Work! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yahoo! Inc. closed Geocities has closed in July 2009. I am Anonymous.

    2. Re:Excellent Work! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you seriously implying that no one uses TPB anymore?

    3. Re:Excellent Work! by Aethelred+Unread · · Score: 0

      The bottom feeders of the pirate world, so 99% of users. Get on a member only site or just go on usenet.

  22. ho by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    and a bottle of rum

  23. HELLO! by shiftless · · Score: 3, Funny

    ME SA JAR JAR BINKS!!

  24. Not really down for days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The mirror sites still worked, only the main site was off line. It took all of about 3 seconds to find the mirror list on google.

  25. Spark Plugs by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 1

    A goodly amount of modern cars feature aluminum heads and utterly buried spark plugs. Removing them without damage and (far more probable) cross-threading or stripping out the threads during installation isn't worth me trying (especially now that most spark plugs last at least 30k if not 50k).

    I'm reminded of that crack about Linux being worth spending time on, if your time has no value. At least if you eff up your Linux install, you won't be forced to walk everywhere.

    1. Re:Spark Plugs by morari · · Score: 1

      Just one of many reasons not to drive modern vehicles, aye?

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      "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
  26. correction FBI is A case by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://www.uha1.com/15-mug.jpg
    this was a mug sold ....