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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.
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.
Err... what ? Al Franken ? Conyers ? Ted Kennedy ? Bill Clinton ? Just off the top of my head.
Can we not pretend that this is even remotely partisan ?
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
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.
Any chance for the peepee-tape?
Oh boo-hoo, Trumpster.
Why is it you idiots never have a clue about the First Amendment? Hint: Twitter, as a private company that is NOT the government, has the right to kick you off their service for any reason they choose, including your racism and other asshole opinions.
And really? James O'Keefe, the noted fraudster who has already been caught deceptively editing videos and is considered just another rightwing fake news troll? THAT James O'Keefe???
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.
For a crackdown on misuse of the Internet using government computers? Yes, I think it is excellent justification.
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I am aware of the difference between what is 'right' and what is practical.
Your response, however is telling. Why just your daughters? Why isn't it just as bad sons are sending dick pics?
That attitude has to change, and saying "That's just the way it is" is not the way to do it.
Young people will never stop being stupid. That's human nature.
A society that doesn't allow people to make mistakes and recover from them will suck.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Either you are misinterpreting the photo, or you're looking at an altered version. In the photo I saw, it's clear on close examination that there was no physical contact.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes