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Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com)
Joseph Cox, reporting for The Daily Beast: Data obtained by a security analyst and shared with The Daily Beast reveals the behind-the-scenes of the epicenter of revenge porn: a notorious image board called Anon-IB, where users constantly upload non-consensual imagery, comment on it, and trade nudes like baseball cards. The data shows Anon-IB users connecting from U.S. Senate, Navy, and other government computers, including the Executive Office of the President, even as senators push for a bill that would further combat the practice, and after the military's own recent revenge-porn crisis. "Wow tig ol bitties. You have any nudes to share?" someone wrote in November, underneath a photo of a woman who apparently works in D.C., while connecting from an IP address registered to the U.S. Senate.
Anon-IB is a free-to-use message board where users post images, typically of women, and which is split into various genre or location sections. Some parts are focused on countries, while U.S. sections may narrow down to a state. Many users pursue so-called wins, which are nude or explicit photos, and may egg each other on to share more images. Anon-IB was also intertwined with a 2014 breach of celebrity nudes referred to as The Fappening. "Looking for wins of [redacted]. She used to send nudes to my friend all of the time. Would love to see some more," someone connecting from the U.S. Senate IP address wrote last August.
Anon-IB is a free-to-use message board where users post images, typically of women, and which is split into various genre or location sections. Some parts are focused on countries, while U.S. sections may narrow down to a state. Many users pursue so-called wins, which are nude or explicit photos, and may egg each other on to share more images. Anon-IB was also intertwined with a 2014 breach of celebrity nudes referred to as The Fappening. "Looking for wins of [redacted]. She used to send nudes to my friend all of the time. Would love to see some more," someone connecting from the U.S. Senate IP address wrote last August.
Having sex with interns is a business that must be taxed.
this should come as no surprise to anyone.
They always featured known 'stars' who've done multiple other films, a few of them in the same "revenge" category.
Not saying that legitimate revenge porn isn't a thing that hasn't slandered someone's name... just saying people get awfully uppity over something that has more or less become a business model.
They're still anonymous. Why did you post this on Slashdot?
Pics or it didn't happen.
"She used to send nudes to my friend all of the time"?
Looks like women trying to attract powerful men.
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we got 'tig ol bitties' on the front page of slashdot, natalie portman would be proud and naked and petrified...
In general people are not handling (post)modern society well at all. Their instincts, especially the sexual ones, are under very little self control and are manipulated by media quite easily.
Revenge porn is a critical antidote.
It forces everyone to account for reality. The women featured of course try to suppress the images and deny their promiscuity and the problems that go with it.
For the men who see these images it forces them to acknowledge the decreased value of promiscuous women: they have habits no one can live with and they have already burned through their potential.
If anyone disagrees they have significantly corrupted integrity and sense of personal responsibility. This is a simple issue. If you think revenge porn should be illegal you are not a sane person.
don't you think?
don't you think?
Well, given that the domain hosting it has a .SU TLD, other than some complicated blocking routine among a lot of ISPs, it would be difficult to stop it. I guess they could try, but, the more Gov'ts try to stomp on things like this, the more pervasive they become because it elevates the taboo level and thus makes it even more desirable so more people want it and thus it pops up in more and more and more places than it would if they'd just left it alone to fap in the corner.
Though for some odd reason, whenever some politician can't weasel out of some sleazy sex allegation and has to make some sort of public statement, begging for forgiveness, it's some conservative.
Granted, mostly because no liberal gives a fuck what their politicians do in the bed as long as they do their work...
I'm pretty Liberal, but what are you on? There have been plenty of asshat liberals who have done this.
Project Veritas just released a new story about how twitter bans people who have opinions they don't like.
Basically, any message deemed "offensive" can be attenuated in various ways, but of course being pro-Trump is claimed to be offensive by some so it becomes politically partisan.
I don't know why any company, or any person, would attempt to limit someone else's expression of ideas. It's very clear that companies who do that hurt their own bottom line, there are numerous examples in the past year. So long as the expression isn't explicitly against the law (notably threats and kiddie porn), why bother?
Any methods to limit offense should apply to the listener, not the speaker. If the company wants to give the listener the ability to mute ideas, phrases, or people they don't like, then that's fine. The speaker can still have their message, and the old saw "but no one's obliged to listen to you" still applies.
Facebook, Google, Twitter... all the big players have an idea of what "incorrect behaviour" is, and want to enforce their vision on everyone.
It's ill-advised, badly implemented, and financially a mistake.
And for the record, Gab.ai is the new twitter that does just that: if you don't like the tone of what people say, you can mute people or words or phrases you don't like.
Why do people even do that? I thought we went over this in grade school: freedom of speech is a right.
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What a sick, depraved culture of entitlement Americans have. Gonna be a rough century for you guys..
Any chance for the peepee-tape?
We go out of our way to invent the most powerful technologies and what happens in return? Some subhuman rejects abuse it in some of the worst ways. This is why humanity can't have nice things.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
We are talking about a body of people who feel they are exempt from the very laws they pass. They commit insider trading and yet the SEC never prosecutes them. They pass a healthcare plan that is touted to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, yet exempted themselves from that too. Sexual harassment training is required of all government employees and military, and yet we recently learned that the house and senate did NOT have any such programs in place. Its as if they think their Congressional Immunity extends beyond the narrow definition of Legislative Acts as defined by the Supreme Court.
You should be glad senators are seeking information about the practice. Most of the time senators have no clue what the bill is saying.
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do you think there's no pedophilia going on? Think again... imagine how many forced suicides there would be when all that mess unravels.
If you're surprised you're fucking stupid. We can hope that Kim Jong really does take out Washington first.
For a crackdown on misuse of the Internet using government computers? Yes, I think it is excellent justification.
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Misery likes company, I guess.
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It's a well-known quote from a Conan film.
For curiosities sake, anyone know how he got the IP Addresses?
At first, I though maybe you meant Bill Clinton, since some far-left nuts have occasionally and ludicrously stated that he acted like a Republican...
but then I realized you probably meant to imply Trump... but that couldn't be it either, because a decade ago when he is alleged to have done this stuff he was a Democrat.
I guess I'm stumped by your statement. I'm old enough to remember when Democrats said Reagan was too liberal to be elected because he'd divorced his first wife.
NOBODY working for government should be getting subsidized when average Americans are not. The answer to that dilemma also cannot be to subsidized everybody; that's an econimic absurdity. We cannot be a society where everybody is getting a subsidy because the money must come from somewhere.
I am currently self-employed and, due to an admittedly odd set of circumstances, I get NO subsidy and must may the full price of my individual market Obamacare policy which is far more expensive than before Obama crapped on me. My policy has vastly higher deductibles which grow worse every damned year than I had before the scumbag Obama lied to everybody. My "wonderful" Obamacare policy provides access to far fewer doctors than before Obama trashed healthcare and the costs rise by more than 10% every year. I have had to change docs 4 times in the past two years alone thanks to Obamacare whose creator, Obama, boldly repeatedly lied "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor".
Why does one of my employees in the government who helped foist this polished turd of Obamacare onto me get ANY subsidy for his or her policy while I get none?
Leftists drive me nuts with their lies about "universal" and "we'll all be treated equally" etc. It NEVER happens. There is no example in history, anywhere on the planet, of a socialist system that actually treats the elites and political leaders the same as the little people. The soviet leaders were not treated the same as soviet workers. The fatso Kim family in NorK is carpulent while the peolpe there starve. The people of the UK get their supposedly equal national healthcare, but their rich and famous and political leaders get private care and even fly to other countries to escape it. As anybody in Cuba if they get the same care as Fidel got. Ask the people of Venezuela if the average citizen in that socialist utopia gets the same healthcare as the elites there.
It's not just on healthcare either. Leftists like poor immigrants, but not in the rich neigborhoods where their leaders live. Leftists love gun control, but not for themselves of their security guards. Leftists like controls on sugary drinks, but not the drinks they prefer. They like bad government schools, but like to send their kids to private schools, like Sidwell Friends. They like busses and bicycles, but fly on private jets. They like high taxes "to level the playing field and help the less fortunate" but shelter their money in off-shore accounts.
NO leftist-run "everybody treated equally" system EVER treats everybody equally.
I believe in science, and I demand scientific evidence of an example that proves me wrong.