media defender takes down revision3


May 29th, 2008

So let’s see, MediaDefender admitted to using revision3’s bit torrent tracker illegitimately (by exploiting it to deliver something that it was not meant to do) and then they admitted to SYN flooding it over 3 days, yet all they can come up with is “sorry”. 8000 connection attempts per second is hard to attribute to an errant application.

Please, revision3, sue the crap out of these guys. Considering MediaDefender’s track-record and previous behaviour, the only way the world can be rid of them is for a judge to order their ISP to pull the plug completely.



e-publishing and the law


April 4th, 2008

I have recently attended a talk given by Michael Geist on the subject of “E-Publishing and the Law” through the Canadian Journalism Foundation. Here are some of the things that Dr. Geist spoke about, as well as some of my observations.

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the brief


March 19th, 2008

A few interesting titbits from today’s news - Apple, GPL, JP Morgan controversies, beer is the secret to success.

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these are your guardians, america


February 13th, 2008

brought to my attention by a very special someone:

Florida Police Officers Dump Man from Wheelchair

Woman Strip-Searched and Jailed Naked over a Misunderstanding

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phishers


July 18th, 2005

— inaequitas wrote:

> From inaequitas Mon Jul 18 01:42:50 2005
> Received: from [inferno] by web40702.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon,
> 18 Jul 2005 01:42:50 PDT
> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:42:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: inaequitas <>
> Subject: Fwd: Account investigation warning [Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:44:24
> -0300]
> To: abuse@thrunet.com
> CC: Report@doshelp.com, emailhoax@abnamro.com
> Bcc: this.blog
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=”0-1059165754-1121676170=:3036″
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> Content-Length: 11679
>
> Please consider the following site as it is phishing information from
> customers of LaSalle Bank:
>
> http://211.59.14.67:680/rock/la
>
> The IP was traced in the range owned by Thrunet.com so I feel it is your
> company’s responsibility to remove this website.
>
> [code]
>
> root@inferno root # whois 211.59.14.67
> query: 211.59.14.67
>
> # ENGLISH
>
> KRNIC is not a ISP but a National Internet Registry similar to APNIC.
> The followings are information of the organization that is using the
> IPv4
> address.
>
> IPv4 Address : 211.59.14.0-211.59.14.255
> Network Name : THRUNET-INFRA
> Connect ISP Name : THRUNET
> Connect Date : 20031218
> Registration Date : 20040922
>
> [ Organization Information ]
> Organization ID : ORG35266
> Org Name : Thrunet Co., Ltd.
> State : SEOUL
> Address : Thrunet IDC B/D, 1338-5, Seocho-2dong, Seocho-ku
> Zip Code : 137-072
>
> {rest of `whois` query response removed}
>
> root@inferno root # traceroute 211.59.14.67
> traceroute to 211.59.14.67 (211.59.14.67), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
> 1 gw.freeshell.org (192.94.73.62) 0.561 ms 0.456 ms 0.434 ms
> 2 sl-gw28-fw-6-1-0-TS12.sprintlink.net (160.81.88.133) 7.793 ms
> 4.217
> ms sl-gw28-fw-6-1-0-TS22.sprintlink.net (160.81.88.169) 4.172 ms
> 3 sl-bb20-fw-2-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.12.161) 4.765 ms 11.605 ms
> 4.328 ms
> 4 sl-st21-dal-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.81) 13.704 ms 20.444
> ms
> 5.519 ms
> 5 so1-1-0-2488M.ar1.DAL2.gblx.net (208.51.134.33) 8.669 ms 22.219 ms
>
> 5.216 ms
> 6 so3-0-0-2488M.ar3.PAO2.gblx.net (67.17.94.97) 63.463 ms 48.682 ms
> 61.869 ms
> 7 ANC-Korea-Thrunet-Co-MOVE.ge-6-0-0.ar3.PAO2.gblx.net (67.17.163.22)
> 47.251 ms 48.811 ms 46.915 ms
> 8 211.110.7.101 (211.110.7.101) 200.778 ms 182.630 ms 184.053 ms
> 9 210.117.126.25 (210.117.126.25) 209.756 ms 201.706 ms 194.725 ms
> 10 210.117.121.130 (210.117.121.130) 184.155 ms 195.527 ms 221.298
> ms
> 11 210.117.121.169 (210.117.121.169) 225.086 ms 228.391 ms 195.173
> ms
> 12 dom1-incheon1.thrunet.com (210.117.127.162) 202.972 ms 197.256 ms
> 196.719 ms
> 13 210.221.6.54 (210.221.6.54) 196.707 ms 196.231 ms 206.281 ms
> 14 211.59.14.67 (211.59.14.67) 205.825 ms 192.363 ms 215.165 ms
>
> {traceroute information obtained through a remote shell}
>
> [/code]
>
> I thank you in advance for the steps taken in removing this thread from
> the Internet. This e-mail has also been CC-ed to ABNA MRO to allow them
> to
> take necessary steps as they see fit.
>
>