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The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly
New submitter cbiltcliffe writes: About a month ago, we discussed news that the Pirate Bay domain name was back online. This story mentioned a timer, which supposedly showed the time since the police raid. I didn't notice at the time, but a more recent check showed this counter was counting down, not up, with a time set to reach zero at the end of January. Sometime around a week ago, the waving pirate flag video changed to a graphic of an orange phoenix, and a disabled search box showed up. I've been watching the site since, and now, about 12 hours before the timer was to reach zero, the site is back up, complete with searches.
Domain returns to 104.28.4.42 CloudFlare, Inc. (AS13335). I wouldn't trust that...
there is a Flash exploit that STILL isn't patched, that only requires a user to visit a site with a bit of compromised embedded flash content like a banner ad, and BOOM, owned. You don't even have to click a link, just visit a domain hosting the content on a page.
Think "Autoplay", that's how fucking easy it is.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
problem with Noscript et al, is the same problem with softwalls like Zonealarm - the content is already downloaded to your computer for the parser to analyse before it's passed to the rendering engine. It's already in your system. Like Zonealarm, it should be considered the LAST line of defence. The first line of defence should be in your router. Have a blacklist, at the very least, of IPs of advertising domains. If your router doesn't offer blacklisting (my shitbox of a Netgear does, I'd be surprised if any more modern router didn't), use an old laptop and run everything through a softwall on that, that then passes through to your network. That's how I used to do it back when I had a cable connection through a Terajet 210 (which is actually just a modem with one ethernet port and fuck all else).
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Viruses are meant to spread to other files on same system in hopes one of those files winds up on a floppy going to a fresh system to infect.
Worms are meant to use networking to spread.
Malware is meant to infect and stay hidden so it can deliver the following:
Adware is meant to hide so it can keep showing ads.
Spyware is meant to hide and keep track of you.
Ransomware doesn't hide at all, it tries to scare you into paying for protection.
Rogueware pretends to do something useful but says you need full paid version to do it. Except there is no problem that it can fix.
There's prolly more but I'm done shitting now.