Spyware To Catch Shareres

[4play]

From SecurityFocus comes news that a pair of coders with a deep hatred of software pirates have gone public with a months-old experiment to trick file sharers into running custom spyware they wrote that scolds users and phones home to a server. They circulated the program disguised as sought-after downloads like Unreal Tournament 2004 and Microsoft source code, and they have a website that updates in real time whever someone executes it. They've logged IP addresses for over 12,000 'pirates' since January. The EFF says the vigilantes may be committing a crime."

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they still like to call people that share on p2p apps pirates when this is not the case.

still the site is now getting a good slashdotting (ddos attack in laymans terms) so they are not gonna be collecting information after there server melts.

[Switeck]

Please visit here just once to use up their bandwidth:
http://walktheplank.ath.cx/dustbunny/display.php

Notice that many of the ips are 192.168.x.x -- thus unrouteable on the internet.

[Arm]

Huh?

• Average time wasted: 12.872724467757 Seconds
  Total time: 1390.6833333333 Minutes
  Hours: 23.178055555556 Hours
  Operating for: 941.35916666667 Hours

Average time wasted?

[NightStalker]

I believe that is the average time they leave the window open.

[Sparkle1984]

Good - their evil website is broken down!! Nice one !!
When I tried to visit it, I got a "Cannot Find Server - The Page Cannot Be Displayed" message.

I believe that is the average time they leave the window open

The average time they leave what window open??

[vivitron 15]

surely this wouldnt hold up in court though - they are actively going out of their way to put out software in order to catch someone, which is a honey trap.

[Oni]

Originally posted by vivitron 15@22 March 2004 - 00:46
surely this wouldnt hold up in court though - they are actively going out of their way to put out software in order to catch someone, which is a honey trap.

with out the cutie

[Sparkle1984]

I've just found out that the 2 idiots behind this are the owners of a weblog called http://www.blogzine.net
So I went in there, and left them a nice message on their comments section, to atagonise them:

Oh my goodness Cliff and Justin - you are such idiots !!
You really think you can fight against hundreds of millions of filesharers around the world!! You are deluding yourselves!!
I love kazaa i love warez warez warez warez free stuff forever and nothing you do can stop me hhahahahhahah from behind my lovely far-eastern proxy server!!!!
Posted by Sparkle at March 22, 2004 11:30 AM

So go to their website and tell them exactly what you think of them !!

EDIT: And here are some more websites under their control. Go and give them a massive slashdotting big time!!
http://www.extenshun.com/
http://clifgriffin.com/

[dingdongding]

i have some more info on them if anyone's interested lol- when the article came out i did a little research

too bad it's easier to get a home phone number than it is anything that's online based!

for what's worth the ips i found i threw in the antip2p list at bluetack.co.uk

ddd

[Sparkle1984]

Originally posted by dingdongding@24 March 2004 - 05:14
i have some more info on them if anyone's interested lol- when the article came out i did a little research

too bad it's easier to get a home phone number than it is anything that's online based!

for what's worth the ips i found i threw in the antip2p list at bluetack.co.uk

ddd

Nice one !!!