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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."
QUOTE: I am Nyre. I am highly against Anonymous. I do not support Anonymous anymore. I sometimes help the feds.
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
I almost thought I wouldn't be able to download the rest of ST:TNG. Gotta see how season 7 ends!
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?
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.
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.
And nothing of value was truly lost.
An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre
An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name
Anonymous...who goes by the name....
also AlQaedaSec claims to be behind the attacks http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-05-16f/Crazy_People_Claiming_To_Be_Behind_Piratebay_DDOS.html
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.
But why is the rum gone?
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
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.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
There is no honor between the swarm of resent-their-mommies script kiddies and petty credit card thieves that call themselves "Anonymous".
Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
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
Great job, AnonNyre! For your next target, I recommend taking down Excite search engine and Geocities!
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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.