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Tuesday, 25 October 2011
quote [ Lolita City, a child pornography site run on over a concealed “darknet,” has been taken down by Anonymous members, and account details of 1,589 users from the site’s database were posted as evidence. ]
Anonymous doles out their own personal brand of justice by taking down a bunch of kiddie porn sites. Anonymous continues to be anonymous in extended.
Anonymous digs through rich people's trash.
[by mechanical contrivance@2:06amGMT] [+10 Good] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/anonymous-leaks-bank-of-america-ceos-personal-contact-info.ars |
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azazel
said @ 2:57am GMT on 25th Oct
[Score:1 Insightful]
I have an issue with this kind of vigilantism (if you can call it that). This action defines the very concepts of "pointless", "futile" and "counterproductive"; by defacing some "porn" sites, Anonymous have only managed to harden and upgrade these kind of sites' defenses. Since it's on the TOR network, they didn't grab any IP addresses. So what if they take down Lolita City; it'll come back. Unless Anonymous managed to get some really nasty details on those users (which I severely doubt, given the nature of the sites), nothing will come from this except harder to take down sites in the future. Unfortunately. |
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azazel
said @ 3:00am GMT on 25th Oct
I don't, obviously, condone child pornography and I think it's delightful that things continue to happen against it, I do believe there are better ways to approach this. I know that there were a few Swedish hackers way back in the dark ages of the internet that used to drop information to the police whenever they cracked a CP circle (I know some of the hackers that were active). I realize that "infiltrating" a site/CP community is rather disgusting, but defacing or DDoSing a site won't bring anything but slight annoyance to them. You need to dig deep enough to hand police some real information. Maybe Anonymous did, but until I see results from it, I'm going to remain skeptical that this was an efficient way of combating CP. |
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danshyu
said @ 3:59am GMT on 25th Oct
[Score:1 Funny]
Yeah, w/e. Mr pedo site webmaster. |
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foobar
said @ 5:35am GMT on 25th Oct
[Score:1 Insightful]
Tor is anonymous, VISA is not. |
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mechanical contrivance
said @ 2:04pm GMT on 25th Oct
Did you also post this comment? Sensible Erection |
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mechanical contrivance
said @ 2:05pm GMT on 25th Oct
Sorry, that link is right but the text is wrong. I'll try again. slashdot.org |
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coochorama42
said @ 4:57pm GMT on 25th Oct
I have to disagree with you on this one azazel. I've read your follow-up post, and obviously see what you're saying, but maybe this scares an individual to the point that they decide that the benefit they get from it is not worth the risk of being found out. Even if this is only one person, it makes a difference. Also from what I understand, Anonymous is about creating chaos. Decentralization is the key to their success and these efforts all point to a common theme: if you are doing something wrong, you can be outed, you can be hacked, and you can suffer some repercussions. I love the fact that they are hitting the "low hanging fruit" of the dregs of society. Might as well take them out at the knees when aiming at the bigwigs as well. |
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tickaz
said @ 12:07am GMT on 26th Oct
These "dregs of society" and "bigwigs" you speak of are not necessarily mutually exclusive; it is possible for the CEOs of large corporations to indulge in the odd bit of child porn too. |
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Dioxin
said @ 3:02am GMT on 25th Oct
All well and good except the username list they poster included the names of a lulsec member and that jester hacker vigilante dude. |
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Dioxin
said @ 3:03am GMT on 25th Oct
here ya go |
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satanspenis666
said @ 4:10am GMT on 25th Oct
[Score:2 Funny]
A little known fact, Anonymous used the controversial Pedobear Trap to hack the sites.  |
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atter_cob
said @ 6:49am GMT on 25th Oct
[Score:1 Insightful]
Will any pedophiles go to jail because of this? No. Will kids be more safe? No. So what was the point? Well, IMO it was brilliant. Most people are stupid when it comes to internet/technology stuff. They hear "Anon hacked kiddie porn sites" and don't think about the the question of if anything good really happened. Instead they just get excited and say "Anon is saving the kids. Think about the kids!" It's a great PR move. Now when they hear "Anon is attacking BoA" the won't be upset at the bad hackers, instead they will associate BoA with pedophiles. Ok, this PR trick won't work for everyone, but it will work for a lot of stupid people. |
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foobar
said @ 6:52am GMT on 25th Oct
Were they going to go to jail anyway? The police don't have the technical or legal capability to do this, but they can start looking at all those names that were released. Especially if some hard drives end up in their garbage. |
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sherlock
said @ 9:56am GMT on 25th Oct
[Score:5 WTF]
I don't know where else to post this. Anonymous 10/25/11(Tue)05:22:25 No.360273234 >be 15 years old >on school trip to a fucking zoo >animals and so forth >go in elephant house >oh god it smells so fucking bad >stench of elephant shit is burning the back of my throat >feel something grab my waist >elephant picks me up with its trunk >srsly wtf >forces me up another elephant's vagina >for no good reason I get naked >walking round inside elephant's womb >holy shit my sister is in here too >suddenly everything starts shaking >look out of hole in cervix, see huge elephant penis thrusting in and out >we both reach down elephant pee hole and massage it from inside >feelsgoodman >it's throbbing and pulsing >hot steaming semen starts to erupt over our arms, flooding our womb prison >I punch my sister in the tits for a laugh >she is so turned on >massaging elephant cum into each other while I punch her tits and kick her in the cunt >we're still in there >zookeepers push sandwiches up elephant's cunt for us >we have wireless internet in here |
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De_Wr0ng
said @ 4:50pm GMT on 25th Oct
Ahhhh, drugs! |
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TheThirstyMonk
said @ 6:02pm GMT on 25th Oct
[Score:3 Funny]
The Aristocrats! |
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Baxter_UK
said @ 7:16pm GMT on 25th Oct
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mechanical contrivance
said @ 11:17pm GMT on 25th Oct
[Score:1 Insightful]
Can anyone post the manga of this? Surely one must exist. |
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Naruki
said @ 3:28am GMT on 26th Oct
madpride is 15? |
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todde
said @ 2:17pm GMT on 26th Oct
madpride? |
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DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69
said @ 8:28pm GMT on 26th Oct
[Score:1 Funny]
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the9thcircle
said @ 7:01pm GMT on 25th Oct
[Score:1 Funny]
"hmmmmmm that doesn't sound the like Anonymous I know..." |
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mechanical contrivance
said @ 11:04pm GMT on 25th Oct
You don't know Anonymous. None of us do. |
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joe_mannix
said @ 12:36am GMT on 26th Oct
The first rule of Anonymous is you don't talk about Anonymous.... |
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sherlock
said @ 6:23am GMT on 26th Oct
The 34th rule of Anonymous is ... |
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Gunslinger
said @ 2:10am GMT on 26th Oct
[Score:1 Insightful]
This is a good headline, but it really doesn't mean anything. >account details of 1,589 users from the site’s database were posted If you look at the dump, you'll see it's just profile information. Usernames, posting stats, join date, etc. They didn't get the password hashes (which were stored remotely) or any other information that could be used to identify, say, pedobear69. >By taking down Freedom Hosting, we are eliminating 40+ child pornography websites That's great, except... >The Tor network was heavily used in Egypt earlier this year by dissidents to get around the Mubarak regime’s Internet shut-down, and is used by bloggers in Syria to communicate with the outside world. I guess all the oppressed people around the world will have to wait. There are more pressing matters at hand! Such... as... what exactly? Freedom Hosting or something similar will be back eventually, and so will the sites. Likely more secure than before. Child abusers will still molest their children regardless of whether there's a convenient place to upload it to. For profit child pornographers (a MAJOR problem) are completely unaffected by this, and are probably laughing since Lolita City and other free image dump sites steal their content and endanger their operations by exposing their media to the untrusted public. In summary, this doesn't help victims of child abuse. It won't stop future abuse and no one responsible will be caught. All it does is temporarily inconvenience low-level pedos who are guilty of a thought crime... which is odd considering: >Anonymous: goal of promoting internet freedom and freedom of speech |
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hpeg
said @ 7:10am GMT on 27th Oct
What I find worse is that now 1,500-odd pedos have been flushed out of Lolita City, which is a known site and probably monitored to some degree (at least scanned for new material, possible victim identification) to some other new site that's going to spring up, the address to it passed covertly and probably better protected than before... |
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f00m@nB@r
said @ 2:12am GMT on 26th Oct
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