> We cannot be sure that Provenzano's crude attempts at a code were intended to foil the police.
I think you are right. In most articles about the capture they mention that his communication with the outside world was through his encrypted letters. The letters were passed through several couriers (some say up to 10) before reaching their destination.
To me it is quite obvious that he was trying to hide the content of his letters from the couriers and not the police.
The.EU landrush was nothing more than a fight for the leftovers. All the "good" names went during the Sunrise 2 period.
To put it simple, the launch of the.EU was divided into three phases. (1) Sunrise 1: Trademarks, (2) Sunrise 2: Company names, (3) Landrush: Open for all.
During Sunrise 2 some cybersquatters located in Europe found out that they could register new companies names that contained "generic" terms. Like "Joe's Casino Ltd.", "Wise Money Investments Ltd", "ABC Insurances Ltd", etc. Using the company registration certificate they could apply and register domain names with generic terms even before the landrush.
To register a new company can be as little as $100. There is a huge profit to be made as popular domains usually do not go for less than $1000 and the most popular ones, like casino.eu, will sell for much much more.
Examples on some of the domains that were registered before 7th of April (first day of landrush):
auction.eu, auto.eu, bank.eu, beauty.eu, book.eu, books.eu, business.eu, buy.eu, car.eu, cars.eu, casino.eu, computer.eu, computers.eu, credit.eu, design.eu, drug.eu, drugs.eu, dvd.eu, escort.eu, film.eu, finance.eu, find.eu, fitness.eu, flowers.eu, food.eu, football.eu, free.eu, gambling.eu, games.eu, golf.eu, health.eu, help.eu, holiday.eu, hosting.eu, hotel.eu, insurance.eu, internet.eu, job.eu, jobs.eu, law.eu, lawyer.eu, loan.eu, loans.eu, love.eu, mail.eu, marketing.eu, medical.eu, mobile.eu, money.eu, mortage.eu, movie.eu, music.eu, office.eu, online.eu, outdoor.eu, poker.eu, privacy.eu, realestate.eu, search.eu, security.eu, sell.eu, sex.eu, shop.eu, show.eu, sport.eu, sports.eu, stocks.eu, tax.eu, trade.eu, travel.eu, weather.eu, web.eu, website.eu, wireless.eu, women.eu, work.eu
Note: I got this list from third party. I have checked most of them to be sure they were registered before 7th of April, but not all of them. You can check when they were register by visiting this site: Whois.EU
Did some Googling and found one company and one organsization offering "copyright infringment insurance". Also found two interesting articles about this type of insurance.
TrustyFiles
"The music subscription service includes copyright infringement insurance. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) may continue to target non-subscribing P2P users with lawsuits, and inadvertently sue RazorPop's paying customers. The insurance will be capped at $5,000 per subscriber, which is above typical RIAA settlement amounts to date."
Yes agree, if the organization was located in the US. But what if it was located outside the US? In a country were downloading music isn't illegal.
I know this subject is a black/grey area but forcing young people to drop out of college is in the same category.
The RIAA works the same, a group of members (record companies), joining forces, using the power of money to get influence and protect their interests.
Why can't we who doesn't agree with RIAA do the same?
Here is a crazy idea. Why not setup an organization that offer members "protection" against RIAA law suits for let's say $10 a month.
Download as much music as you like for personal use. If you get caught by RIAA our organization will pay the settlement.
Would it work?
Spot on! One of the most insightful comments I've seen regarding outsourcing.
I live in the UK and the scenario is the same.
The financial industry benefit alot on lending out money (credit) and mortages to the public. By giving mortages to people who can't afford them, house prices go up because the demand becomes higher with "fake" money.
Once the house is bought the families are trapped in a financial situation were they struggle to pay back. When most of their montly income goes to pay the mortage, they start using credit cards and other loans to purchase items, pay for holidays, etc, making the situation worse.
The most common way to break this financial dependence is to sell your house with a profit. But the problem is that this helps house prices to rise and puts first-time buyers into the same financial dependence.
Whitelisting is not the final solution to the phishing problem.
Why? Simply because it does not offer authentication, that is, verifying the identity of the sender.
As an example, let's look at Instant Messaging. As Meng Wong write in his blog, many people subscribe to default-deny for IM. And yes, I agree, unsolicited messages are low on IM networks compared with e-mail.
However, who has not pulled the prank of sending a message with someone elses IM when they left their computer unsupervised? OR had that prank pulled on you?
Having someone abusing a whitelisted account can be very dangerous as it catches most people off-guard. It's like speaking to someone on the phone who is very good at imitating the voice of someone famous or someone you know.
Lack of authentication is the major key factor to phishing. To eliminate phising we need to have technology that can do authentication extremly fast, cheap and work in big-scale networks.
Slashdot Mirror
> We cannot be sure that Provenzano's crude attempts at a code were intended to foil the police.
I think you are right. In most articles about the capture they mention that his communication with the outside world was through his encrypted letters. The letters were passed through several couriers (some say up to 10) before reaching their destination.
To me it is quite obvious that he was trying to hide the content of his letters from the couriers and not the police.
The .EU landrush was nothing more than a fight for the leftovers. All the "good" names went during the Sunrise 2 period.
To put it simple, the launch of the .EU was divided into three phases. (1) Sunrise 1: Trademarks, (2) Sunrise 2: Company names, (3) Landrush: Open for all.
During Sunrise 2 some cybersquatters located in Europe found out that they could register new companies names that contained "generic" terms. Like "Joe's Casino Ltd.", "Wise Money Investments Ltd", "ABC Insurances Ltd", etc. Using the company registration certificate they could apply and register domain names with generic terms even before the landrush.
EURid who operates the .eu top level domain was informed about this.
EURid comments on the issue of generic domain names
To register a new company can be as little as $100. There is a huge profit to be made as popular domains usually do not go for less than $1000 and the most popular ones, like casino.eu, will sell for much much more.
Examples on some of the domains that were registered before 7th of April (first day of landrush):
auction.eu, auto.eu, bank.eu, beauty.eu, book.eu, books.eu, business.eu, buy.eu, car.eu, cars.eu, casino.eu, computer.eu, computers.eu, credit.eu, design.eu, drug.eu, drugs.eu, dvd.eu, escort.eu, film.eu, finance.eu, find.eu, fitness.eu, flowers.eu, food.eu, football.eu, free.eu, gambling.eu, games.eu, golf.eu, health.eu, help.eu, holiday.eu, hosting.eu, hotel.eu, insurance.eu, internet.eu, job.eu, jobs.eu, law.eu, lawyer.eu, loan.eu, loans.eu, love.eu, mail.eu, marketing.eu, medical.eu, mobile.eu, money.eu, mortage.eu, movie.eu, music.eu, office.eu, online.eu, outdoor.eu, poker.eu, privacy.eu, realestate.eu, search.eu, security.eu, sell.eu, sex.eu, shop.eu, show.eu, sport.eu, sports.eu, stocks.eu, tax.eu, trade.eu, travel.eu, weather.eu, web.eu, website.eu, wireless.eu, women.eu, work.eu
Note: I got this list from third party. I have checked most of them to be sure they were registered before 7th of April, but not all of them. You can check when they were register by visiting this site: Whois .EU
Did some Googling and found one company and one organsization offering "copyright infringment insurance". Also found two interesting articles about this type of insurance.
TrustyFiles "The music subscription service includes copyright infringement insurance. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) may continue to target non-subscribing P2P users with lawsuits, and inadvertently sue RazorPop's paying customers. The insurance will be capped at $5,000 per subscriber, which is above typical RIAA settlement amounts to date."
P2Pfund
Individual Copyright Infringement Insurance Prompts a Lawyerly Debate
RIAA Litigation Insurance: A (Very) Speculative Solution
Yes agree, if the organization was located in the US. But what if it was located outside the US? In a country were downloading music isn't illegal. I know this subject is a black/grey area but forcing young people to drop out of college is in the same category. The RIAA works the same, a group of members (record companies), joining forces, using the power of money to get influence and protect their interests. Why can't we who doesn't agree with RIAA do the same?
Here is a crazy idea. Why not setup an organization that offer members "protection" against RIAA law suits for let's say $10 a month. Download as much music as you like for personal use. If you get caught by RIAA our organization will pay the settlement. Would it work?
> If only it was Canada vs. USA...
/Swede
Maybe you should learn to play better hockey. Good luck in the next Olympics.
Surely designing warp engines is only his part time job next to doing SEO. Googlebot must love his website.
Spot on! One of the most insightful comments I've seen regarding outsourcing.
I live in the UK and the scenario is the same.
The financial industry benefit alot on lending out money (credit) and mortages to the public. By giving mortages to people who can't afford them, house prices go up because the demand becomes higher with "fake" money.
Once the house is bought the families are trapped in a financial situation were they struggle to pay back. When most of their montly income goes to pay the mortage, they start using credit cards and other loans to purchase items, pay for holidays, etc, making the situation worse.
The most common way to break this financial dependence is to sell your house with a profit. But the problem is that this helps house prices to rise and puts first-time buyers into the same financial dependence.
Whitelisting is not the final solution to the phishing problem.
Why? Simply because it does not offer authentication, that is, verifying the identity of the sender.
As an example, let's look at Instant Messaging. As Meng Wong write in his blog, many people subscribe to default-deny for IM. And yes, I agree, unsolicited messages are low on IM networks compared with e-mail.
However, who has not pulled the prank of sending a message with someone elses IM when they left their computer unsupervised? OR had that prank pulled on you?
Having someone abusing a whitelisted account can be very dangerous as it catches most people off-guard. It's like speaking to someone on the phone who is very good at imitating the voice of someone famous or someone you know.
Lack of authentication is the major key factor to phishing. To eliminate phising we need to have technology that can do authentication extremly fast, cheap and work in big-scale networks.