The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS

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The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:12AM from the bad-childhoods-in-the-news dept.

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."

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Thank god! by arcite · 2012-05-17 07:20 · 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 · 2012-05-17 07:25 · 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 Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-17 07:28 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  TPB doesn't run a tracker anymore. TPB being down would not have disrupted your download.
3. Re:Thank god! by cpu6502 · 2012-05-17 07:43 · 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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4. Re:Thank god! by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-05-17 07:54 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "LaForge here, we're geeting a whoosh sound from the phase inducers!"
  
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5. Re:Thank god! by Tubal-Cain · 2012-05-17 09:19 · Score: 2
  
  "For only $7.99 a month."
6. Re:Thank god! by DigitAl56K · 2012-05-17 09:20 · 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...
7. Re:Thank god! by mcgrew · 2012-05-18 06:37 · 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.
  
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Re:Works for the feds? by Infiniti2000 · 2012-05-17 07:23 · 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.
Except it didn't. by JustAnotherIdiot · 2012-05-17 07:24 · 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.

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1. Re:Except it didn't. by morari · 2012-05-17 08:55 · 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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2. Re:Except it didn't. by loufoque · 2012-05-17 09:42 · 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.
3. Re:Except it didn't. by cheekyjohnson · 2012-05-17 10:09 · 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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Re:Works for the feds? by Dunbal · 2012-05-17 07:28 · Score: 2

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

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So basically... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-17 07:34 · 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.
Still don't think it was a DDoS by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-17 07:36 · 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.
Re:Works for the feds? by NickFortune · 2012-05-17 07:54 · 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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nuts by bs0d3 · 2012-05-17 08:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

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? by Anachragnome · 2012-05-17 08:01 · 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.
aaaaaaaaaarrrrr by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-17 08:13 · Score: 2, Funny

But why is the rum gone?
FBI is on the case by 0111+1110 · 2012-05-17 08:29 · 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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1. Re:FBI is on the case by mitcheli · 2012-05-17 08:41 · 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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Re:Was it even DDoS? by GameboyRMH · 2012-05-17 08:37 · 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.

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Excellent Work! by organgtool · 2012-05-17 08:43 · Score: 3, Insightful

Great job, AnonNyre! For your next target, I recommend taking down Excite search engine and Geocities!
Re:Works for the feds? by Hentes · 2012-05-17 09:23 · Score: 2

This whole thing sounds fake to me.
Re:Works for the feds? by Dishevel · 2012-05-17 10:12 · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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HELLO! by shiftless · 2012-05-17 10:29 · Score: 3, Funny

ME SA JAR JAR BINKS!!
Re:Works for the feds? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-17 12:22 · 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.