Spyware To Catch Shareres
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: 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."
source (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/19/0211207&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=172&tid=95)
they still like to call people that share on p2p apps pirates when this is not the case. :angry:
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. :lol:
Posted by: 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. :lol:
Posted by: Arm
:huh: Huh?
Average time wasted: 12.872724467757 Seconds
Total time: 1390.6833333333 Minutes
Hours: 23.178055555556 Hours
Operating for: 941.35916666667 Hours
Average time wasted?
Posted by: NightStalker
I believe that is the average time they leave the window open.
Posted by: Sparkle1984
Good - their evil website is broken down!! Nice one !! :lol: :lol:
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?? :blink:
Posted by: 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.
Posted by: 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 :lol: :lol:
Posted by: 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
:lol: :lol:
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!! :lol:
http://www.extenshun.com/
http://clifgriffin.com/
Posted by: 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
Posted by: 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 !!! :D