Well, and on a more serious note one should remember that sites like TPB attract also some serious attention from LE.
It is sometimes surprising what the FBI and other agency are able to do to protect the success of some operations with a Group I authorization.
The problem with the anti-piracy program was that it was only partly successful. It didn't prevent the user from using pirated copies, but it blocked their access to security updates and so opened a very big pool of PCs that could be turned to botnet-drones. So the security experts were lobbing for months to stop these kinds of anti-piracy programs that are blocking in most cases security updates.
Yes, memories...
As 10043,3005 I was not only one of the first subscribers when CS became available here in Germany, but unfortunately I was playing on the dark-side too, feeding the 3,5" disc spitting AOL-monster. I was one of those beta-testers for the German off-spring of AOL, BOL (Bertelsmann Online) later to be named AOL Germany and even further down the road for CS 2000. I helped to open the floodgate for the German "me-too"s of that time. I was young and needed the money and the free internet access, instead of paying 4.95 US$ for one hour with a 9600 Baud connection or 2.95 US$ for a 2400 Baud connection. Sorry!
Restoring zeroed disks is only theoretical possible when the overwritten file was written onto a virign media and never was changed, because else one couldn't be sure that the remains of a "1" polarisation belonged to the deleted file; it might be from another file of a earlier version of the deleted file.
Heise.de reports that the provider of wikileaks.de had cancelled the contract in December 2008 with effect to the 31st March 2009, so when the domain wasn't transferred to a new provider on 9th April 2009 its status was changed by the provider to "In Transit" and so is inaccessible.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wikileaks-de-Denic-wehrt-sich-gegen-Sperr-Vorwurf--/meldung/136096
Seems the guys at wikileaks.de haven't read their mail, maybe they thought it was spam.
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Well, and on a more serious note one should remember that sites like TPB attract also some serious attention from LE. It is sometimes surprising what the FBI and other agency are able to do to protect the success of some operations with a Group I authorization.
The problem with the anti-piracy program was that it was only partly successful. It didn't prevent the user from using pirated copies, but it blocked their access to security updates and so opened a very big pool of PCs that could be turned to botnet-drones. So the security experts were lobbing for months to stop these kinds of anti-piracy programs that are blocking in most cases security updates.
Yes, memories... As 10043,3005 I was not only one of the first subscribers when CS became available here in Germany, but unfortunately I was playing on the dark-side too, feeding the 3,5" disc spitting AOL-monster. I was one of those beta-testers for the German off-spring of AOL, BOL (Bertelsmann Online) later to be named AOL Germany and even further down the road for CS 2000. I helped to open the floodgate for the German "me-too"s of that time. I was young and needed the money and the free internet access, instead of paying 4.95 US$ for one hour with a 9600 Baud connection or 2.95 US$ for a 2400 Baud connection. Sorry!
Restoring zeroed disks is only theoretical possible when the overwritten file was written onto a virign media and never was changed, because else one couldn't be sure that the remains of a "1" polarisation belonged to the deleted file; it might be from another file of a earlier version of the deleted file.
Heise.de reports that the provider of wikileaks.de had cancelled the contract in December 2008 with effect to the 31st March 2009, so when the domain wasn't transferred to a new provider on 9th April 2009 its status was changed by the provider to "In Transit" and so is inaccessible. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wikileaks-de-Denic-wehrt-sich-gegen-Sperr-Vorwurf--/meldung/136096 Seems the guys at wikileaks.de haven't read their mail, maybe they thought it was spam.