Still haven't proved your claims. Your spreading a complete fabrication/lie and you know it. Watch it, or I might tear a page out of the Too Much Media Playbook and sue you for libel.
I have a small Notice of Retraction that I am legally obligated to publish here:
Official statement from Keith/ICWT:
"Finally, it has been brought to my attention that NATS does not enjoy 80% to 95% market penetration as was originally reported here. Instead, that number is more like 35% to 40% of all porn sites online today, according to an industry source who requested that I not name him. I am very sorry for implying that Too Much Media was more successful than it really is. ICWT and I both regret the error."
"Finally taking the tack that 'all information is compromised unless proven otherwise' is complete rubbish. That's as far-reaching as saying: assume your online banking is compromised because they don;'t email you daily saying it's not."
Fine, whatever you say. If you see a news story saying your bank was hacked, you should assume that all of your information was compromised until someone proves otherwise. It doesn't surprise me that you'd have problems with this concept though.
He asked not to be named. I value privacy. I am not naming sources until and if this goes to court and I have to name sources, he said he would be willing to appear in court anyway. The guy doesn't want to be involved in my fecal matter throwing festival and lose his business. He probably has kids to feed or something.
If not for the ability of reporters to have confidential sources you would never have read most of the top news stories of history because they never could have been written. I want people to come to me with dirt on TMM/John Albright. Do you think they are going to do that if I tell them whatever is needed to get their statement and then breach the trust and splash their name all over the world stage? Learn something about journalism and grow a brain. Or present some facts to support your statement. Or something. Or just shut up. That would work as well.
The intruders had access to the billing data you idiot. They had full access on the entire system. John lost control of his entire company, or most of it. All we have thus far is John's word that the billing data wasn't taken. I flush things down the toilet that are worth more than John's word is right now. I said it may have been stolen, I did not say it *was* stolen. Prove to me - independently of TMM's press statements - that said was safe. Until then, it was compromised. There is no reason to believe that they did not download it. If you were a hacker and you just hit the superfecta of improperly secured servers, wouldn't you download all you could? Of course you would.
No one wants to notify the customers because they are still hoping and praying that the data wasn't actually removed, that the hackers went in, looked, saw the data, left it all alone and never came back. But thats OK, the class action lawsuit I mentioned will make sure no one ever thinks of taking such a stupid approach again in the future. Thank god. Why don't you fax me all of your personal data right now, since you seem not to care about everyone else's data being compromised. I had data in there and rather than sit here and piss and moan about it, I'm going to make sure that this type of thing NEVER happens again. Because this is going to cost TMM and the adult industry so much that it wont be able to afford another mess like this.
Unbelievable that you work in adult and you care so little about your customer's data. Or maybe you are one of those idiots who has to win the online flame war at any cost. Whatever, it does not matter. The bell has been rung and there will be no unringing it.
I was alerted to that error earlier today and just now notice that I had corrected it only at the top of the post. I have since fixed it throughout the article. The correct market penetration - I am told - is somewhere around 35% to 40% of all adult sites online.
Or the fact that a good portion of them simply don't care. Their solution is to send an army of people here to tag and comment me into the ground. Some of them continue to collect webmaster affiliate account data (which includes tax IDs/SSNs) on pages that have no SSL encryption at all. Despite the fact that I brought it up months ago.
As has been clarified on GFY several times, I did NOT post anyone's passwords anywhere. I linked to a Google cache of about 300 of them that was exposed due to another one of this industry's miserable failings in the security area - a poorly design admin area that did not censor the passwords that got stored in Google. And I covered that on my blog as well. I have never heard the end of that because other people in the industry were upset that another dirty little adult industry secret made it out for everyone to see. You can see what I wrote at the link below - including the link to the now removed Google cache.
http://www.icwt.us/index.php/2007/09/30/privacy-of-adult-webmasters-breached-by-google-search-poor-security/
Opinions are like anuses. Everybody has got one. Plenty of people don't like me. Good for them. I honestly could not care less. Yes, I am pretty much universally hated in the adult industry. Thats what happens when you poo poo on everyone in a public manner. But as I have said many times before I do not care and after this over, the industry will be better because of what I have done. No one will ever do something bone headed like this again because this one is going to cost some people their livelihoods and adult websites are going to suffer a hit in the PR department which sadly is a necessary cost to make sure that this does not happen again.
I do not admit to tax evasion. I posted a guide on how people might avoid being coerced into illegal taxes. I don't support terrorism. I support freedom and the end of government control over things they have no business controlling, but THAT is a topic for another day.
For those of you who'd like to see how the Industry's media reported on this mess, checkout this link.
http://www.xbiz.com/news/88230
XBiz whitewashed the story bigtime. And that flat out lied about billing information not being at risk. The hackers had administrative passwords. They had the equivalent of root. It was all there for the taking. No one knows if they were taken because TMM has not been forthcoming or helpful with that end of things. Of course, they say the billing DBs were safe at all times, but they don't exactly have a track record of honesty or trust in other matters. John Albright at TMM once owned a site that installed trojans on people's computers. He claims to have sold the company and it was the new owners. Who knows what the deal is.
I have already been threatened with a libel lawsuit by a senior executive of Too Much Media for publishing this. I published it anyway. They are still making lawsuit threats http://www.gfy.com/showpost.php?p=13561241&postcount=418. I honestly do not care about their threats, I will continue to give media interviews and I will continue to push this story out there. Because people need to know what the industry does not want to tell you.
Go ahead and do what the other poster recommends. Go to GFY and look up "minusonebit". You'll see that I am not well liked within the industry. Its a good thing I am not in the industry to make friends with people therein. I have a growing following of trolls and bashers who are trying everything to tear me down because I have told it like it is. I went to GFY to grow a venture I started. I have been around there a while and I have seen alot of BS go down but this takes the cake.
The adult industry would love to sweep this under the rug. They have already directed everyone here to try and do damage control, to vote this down or do whatever they can to keep it from spreading. I don't think thats the way it should be handled so I have spent most of the weekend making sure that this story gets out and people The industry has also been telling me how http://www.gfy.com/showpost.php?p=13561426&postcount=12 this story wont last here because apparently the ownership of Slashdot has an interest in NATS.
Yes folks, people still do buy porn. Not everyone uses the torrents. But this is your credit card information that they couldn't care less about. They tried to cover it up. They are still trying to cover it up! They still have not notified the customers. Please people, flush this toilet. Write to your elected officials and your banks and demand action. This is not the first time that the industry has suffered a breach. But it hasn't been publicized like this one. This is not how all of the adult industry wants to do business. Some people want to bury this as well and have business as usual. But some of us welcome a chance to clean this mess up and restore respect to the profession.
I STAND BEHIND MY REPORT. I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO DISPROVE IT.
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Still haven't proved your claims. Your spreading a complete fabrication/lie and you know it. Watch it, or I might tear a page out of the Too Much Media Playbook and sue you for libel.
I have a small Notice of Retraction that I am legally obligated to publish here: Official statement from Keith/ICWT: "Finally, it has been brought to my attention that NATS does not enjoy 80% to 95% market penetration as was originally reported here. Instead, that number is more like 35% to 40% of all porn sites online today, according to an industry source who requested that I not name him. I am very sorry for implying that Too Much Media was more successful than it really is. ICWT and I both regret the error."
Again moron, prove your statement. The passwords were posted by Google. NOT ME. http://www.icwt.us/index.php/2007/09/30/privacy-of-adult-webmasters-breached-by-google-search-poor-security/
"Finally taking the tack that 'all information is compromised unless proven otherwise' is complete rubbish. That's as far-reaching as saying: assume your online banking is compromised because they don;'t email you daily saying it's not." Fine, whatever you say. If you see a news story saying your bank was hacked, you should assume that all of your information was compromised until someone proves otherwise. It doesn't surprise me that you'd have problems with this concept though.
He asked not to be named. I value privacy. I am not naming sources until and if this goes to court and I have to name sources, he said he would be willing to appear in court anyway. The guy doesn't want to be involved in my fecal matter throwing festival and lose his business. He probably has kids to feed or something. If not for the ability of reporters to have confidential sources you would never have read most of the top news stories of history because they never could have been written. I want people to come to me with dirt on TMM/John Albright. Do you think they are going to do that if I tell them whatever is needed to get their statement and then breach the trust and splash their name all over the world stage? Learn something about journalism and grow a brain. Or present some facts to support your statement. Or something. Or just shut up. That would work as well.
A program owner within the adult industry who asked that I please not drag his name out into the public limelight.
The intruders had access to the billing data you idiot. They had full access on the entire system. John lost control of his entire company, or most of it. All we have thus far is John's word that the billing data wasn't taken. I flush things down the toilet that are worth more than John's word is right now. I said it may have been stolen, I did not say it *was* stolen. Prove to me - independently of TMM's press statements - that said was safe. Until then, it was compromised. There is no reason to believe that they did not download it. If you were a hacker and you just hit the superfecta of improperly secured servers, wouldn't you download all you could? Of course you would. No one wants to notify the customers because they are still hoping and praying that the data wasn't actually removed, that the hackers went in, looked, saw the data, left it all alone and never came back. But thats OK, the class action lawsuit I mentioned will make sure no one ever thinks of taking such a stupid approach again in the future. Thank god. Why don't you fax me all of your personal data right now, since you seem not to care about everyone else's data being compromised. I had data in there and rather than sit here and piss and moan about it, I'm going to make sure that this type of thing NEVER happens again. Because this is going to cost TMM and the adult industry so much that it wont be able to afford another mess like this. Unbelievable that you work in adult and you care so little about your customer's data. Or maybe you are one of those idiots who has to win the online flame war at any cost. Whatever, it does not matter. The bell has been rung and there will be no unringing it.
I was alerted to that error earlier today and just now notice that I had corrected it only at the top of the post. I have since fixed it throughout the article. The correct market penetration - I am told - is somewhere around 35% to 40% of all adult sites online.
Or the fact that a good portion of them simply don't care. Their solution is to send an army of people here to tag and comment me into the ground. Some of them continue to collect webmaster affiliate account data (which includes tax IDs/SSNs) on pages that have no SSL encryption at all. Despite the fact that I brought it up months ago.
Thats about the sum of it.
As has been clarified on GFY several times, I did NOT post anyone's passwords anywhere. I linked to a Google cache of about 300 of them that was exposed due to another one of this industry's miserable failings in the security area - a poorly design admin area that did not censor the passwords that got stored in Google. And I covered that on my blog as well. I have never heard the end of that because other people in the industry were upset that another dirty little adult industry secret made it out for everyone to see. You can see what I wrote at the link below - including the link to the now removed Google cache. http://www.icwt.us/index.php/2007/09/30/privacy-of-adult-webmasters-breached-by-google-search-poor-security/ Opinions are like anuses. Everybody has got one. Plenty of people don't like me. Good for them. I honestly could not care less. Yes, I am pretty much universally hated in the adult industry. Thats what happens when you poo poo on everyone in a public manner. But as I have said many times before I do not care and after this over, the industry will be better because of what I have done. No one will ever do something bone headed like this again because this one is going to cost some people their livelihoods and adult websites are going to suffer a hit in the PR department which sadly is a necessary cost to make sure that this does not happen again.
I do not admit to tax evasion. I posted a guide on how people might avoid being coerced into illegal taxes. I don't support terrorism. I support freedom and the end of government control over things they have no business controlling, but THAT is a topic for another day.
For those of you who'd like to see how the Industry's media reported on this mess, checkout this link. http://www.xbiz.com/news/88230 XBiz whitewashed the story bigtime. And that flat out lied about billing information not being at risk. The hackers had administrative passwords. They had the equivalent of root. It was all there for the taking. No one knows if they were taken because TMM has not been forthcoming or helpful with that end of things. Of course, they say the billing DBs were safe at all times, but they don't exactly have a track record of honesty or trust in other matters. John Albright at TMM once owned a site that installed trojans on people's computers. He claims to have sold the company and it was the new owners. Who knows what the deal is.
I am the guy who wrote the story.
I have already been threatened with a libel lawsuit by a senior executive of Too Much Media for publishing this. I published it anyway. They are still making lawsuit threats http://www.gfy.com/showpost.php?p=13561241&postcount=418. I honestly do not care about their threats, I will continue to give media interviews and I will continue to push this story out there. Because people need to know what the industry does not want to tell you.
Go ahead and do what the other poster recommends. Go to GFY and look up "minusonebit". You'll see that I am not well liked within the industry. Its a good thing I am not in the industry to make friends with people therein. I have a growing following of trolls and bashers who are trying everything to tear me down because I have told it like it is. I went to GFY to grow a venture I started. I have been around there a while and I have seen alot of BS go down but this takes the cake.
The adult industry would love to sweep this under the rug. They have already directed everyone here to try and do damage control, to vote this down or do whatever they can to keep it from spreading. I don't think thats the way it should be handled so I have spent most of the weekend making sure that this story gets out and people The industry has also been telling me how http://www.gfy.com/showpost.php?p=13561426&postcount=12 this story wont last here because apparently the ownership of Slashdot has an interest in NATS.
Yes folks, people still do buy porn. Not everyone uses the torrents. But this is your credit card information that they couldn't care less about. They tried to cover it up. They are still trying to cover it up! They still have not notified the customers. Please people, flush this toilet. Write to your elected officials and your banks and demand action. This is not the first time that the industry has suffered a breach. But it hasn't been publicized like this one. This is not how all of the adult industry wants to do business. Some people want to bury this as well and have business as usual. But some of us welcome a chance to clean this mess up and restore respect to the profession.
I STAND BEHIND MY REPORT. I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO DISPROVE IT.