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reply to catseyenu

Re: anti-piracy vigilante the wrong way

reply to F walker

said by F walker:

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said by catseyenu:

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said by MxxCon:

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check out »www.freewebs.com/operationdustbunny/

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404 - Page Not Found

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HAHA mission accomplished. Good night America.

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Previous question answered!

Edit: The fantastical exploits of Clif, Clark and Justin on their Journey to the Center of the Internet.

»blogzine.net
Snapped 2004-03-19 17:47:25

reply to atangel

said by atangel:

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Maybe they got yanked,

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reply to MxxCon
Daaang...
"The ones who must not be named" and we, the fantastic members at »www.broadbandreports.com, really made a stir in the online community

Nice to see a large community effort to bring down two immoral pirates!

Good job guys and gals

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He that feeds a disease, feeds an enemy. Some diseases are starved. Starve your sins by fasting and humiliation. Either kill your sin, or your sin will kill you. - Thomas Watson Harmless as doves 131

reply to NewLife

said by NewLife:

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said by clifgriffin:

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Really I consider you nothing but a hacker.

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I think hes nothing more than a worthless script kiddie whos looking for attention.

reply to atangel

said by atangel:

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They were there earlier today. Had changed the site to add additional justification and to point out that they had made the "news."

Maybe they got yanked, maybe the bandwidth usage got a little high, will we ever know

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reply to MxxCon
»slashdot.org/articles/04/03/19/0···2&tid=95

also got reply from F-Secure Corp.

The file:

 malware.zip

was found to be infected with:

 Trojan.Win32.DusBunn

reply to F walker

said by F walker:

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HAHA mission accomplished. Good night America.

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reply to MxxCon
Depending on if these fools go to university (Guessing from the comments on the site, and quotes about 'research') then they could be in big trouble for human rights abuses -
»www.ncsu.edu/sparcs/irb/pol_proc.pdf
I am sure there is one for whatever university they go to.

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• All research procedures minimize the risks to the subjects.
• Any risk must be reasonable in relation to the potential benefits from the study.
• Informed consent must be obtained from the subject before participation. This consent
must be in writing unless exempted by the committee.
• Subject must be provided with adequate detail regarding the study to make an informed
decision regarding their participation. This information should be included on the consent
form and should be written in lay language, so that the subjects can make an informed
decision regarding participation.
• Subject’s privacy must be maintained.
• Subjects need to be made aware that they participate of their own choice and are free to
withdraw from the study at any time.

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said by Urzumph:

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then they could be in big trouble for human rights abuses

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reply to dave
Nevermind

reply to dave

said by dave:

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said by F walker:

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HAHA mission accomplished. Good night America.

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I've kind of lost track of who are the vigilantes in this thread.

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reply to dave

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Ladies and gentlemen, although it is but March, I feel that we already have a strong contender in the 2004 "hyperbole of the year" stakes!

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reply to MxxCon
I'd have to read the policy in detail, but I think 'human subject' only applies when you're doing research on the human, and I don't think sampling their IP address nor noticing whether they take things which they suspect to be stolen can possibly come under that heading. You're not doing anything 'to' the human.

Mental Abuse comes to mind. Making someone paranoid and freak out if they are downloading a legitimate file for legitimate use and get their malware/virus/trojan.

I hope their project gets them at least a letter of reprimand at the school they are attending. If not, their IT/computer staff/teachers have failed us all in letting them even attempt this in public. I could see a private test (controlled environment in school lab) but not out in the public where this could do damage.

I know we always have "If's" Out there - but what if some real hard core hacker, re-coded this with a very destructive worm. Stupid kids like this need to learn how the real world works and be taught a lesson!

Thanks to anyone out there that helped curb this before it got real bad!!!!

reply to MxxCon

said by MxxCon:

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said by Thrawn2:

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Poetic justice would be finding these guys ips and then just post it ever where, so Say a DOS or Malicious file can be giving to them.

*DISCLAIMER* IM only saying that would be funny.

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well, i found this info

Griffin, Clifton  clifgriffin@jsventures.com
      Blogzine
      503 Piedmont St.
      Reidsville, North Carolina 27320
      United States
      3364327174

and his ip is
Name: gso31-106-207.triad.rr.com
Address: 24.31.106.207

it's all publicly available info so it's perfectly legal

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reply to djtim21

said by djtim21:

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(...) if they are downloading a legitimate file for legitimate use (..)

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reply to MxxCon
just fired this off to abuse@rr.com

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trojan is detected by kapersky labs as Trojan.Win32.DusBunn
the ip of the abuser is 24.31.106.207
rest of info is as folows

Griffin, Clifton clifgriffin@jsventures.com
Blogzine
503 Piedmont St.
Reidsville, North Carolina 27320
United States

below is copied from post at dsl reports

"just got reply from Kaspersky Labs
props to them for being the 1st who got back to me w/ some result

Hello.

This is trojan program.
It will be added to the next daily update as Trojan.Win32.DusBunn.

Sincerely yours,
Pavel Zelensky
Virus analyst"
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Hard to say if road runner will do any thing or not but hey never know.
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reply to MxxCon
Cyber Crimes felonies committed by Dust Bunny:

- Unauthorized internet connection made across state lines ("Phoning home" - Class F 1998 Cyber Crimes Bill)

- Unauthorized modification of data across state lines ("Web server rewrites PID (Dust Bunny is property of downloader with no license agreement)" - Class F 1998 Cyber Crimes Bill)

- Publication of data gained via unauthorized means ("Status display page (data gained via phoning home)" - Class F 1998 Cyber Crimes Bill)

Crimes committed by filesharing community:
- Intellectual property violation (Civil violation for which you can be sued)

Was it worth it?