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This is Why I Have a 16 Char iTunes PW
Dec 10th
Freemium games are free downloadable games that, if you want more fun and more action, you purchase power ups. Just like anything Zynga makes. And if you are one of those nimrods who purchased something to make your Farmville farm grow better or make your cows happier? Shame on you. Watch these kids in the video below max out their Dad’s credit card with glee playing TapFish.
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Hate Running Drops in the Server Room?
Dec 8th
This looks just like a server room I recently had to service some equipment in- But that room had bubble wrap all over the floor so every step you took was both slippery and quite poppy!
Thanks to [GAS]!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...What Would a Kid Do With a 3D Printer?
Dec 5th
Thanks to Rusty, I now know that there are some seriously dorky children out there, but this one wears it proudly, is unafraid of public speaking, and has great presentation skills. Ever seen anyone give a Standing O to a powerpoint slide presentation? Check out this whelp talking about creating things with a 3D printer.
If I had a 3D printer when I was his age, I know what I would have created: Slugs for gumball machines, pinball machines, candy dispensers, etc. Oh, and I doubt this kid goes to public schools.
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Search Terms Now Being Encrypted By Google
Dec 2nd
The Web referrer logs of Belch.Com are now showing these typical stats below:
This is a result of Google encrypting their search terms for signed-in users, and it will have a lasting effect on all kinds of web services that rely on using search keywords and terms to understand what kinds of topics and content are driving traffic to a site. Google does this by providing the search results as normal to a logged-in user, but they replace the normal referrer line in the web request to a server with the “encrypted_search_terms” phrase. And yes, it violates the RFC for web referrals, but honestly, I’m surprised it took this long for this change to become a reality.
Google’s blog post here talks about this change. And you know, you can actually use this referrer term against them by using your website’s .htaccess file, a text based access control list, to redirect inbound connections with that referrer line to a specific site on your website, perhaps one with a known high clickrate for ads.
And I LOLed that everyone is searching for Anderson Cooper being gay. Gads, everyone knows he is, he should just come out of the closet already.
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Creepy Singing Dentist Will Sue You Over Negative Yelp Reviews
Dec 1st
This is the Singing Dentist in New York, Dr. Stacy Makhnevich, who, as a condition of service, makes you sign a waiver, turning over copyright of any and all comments on Internet Review Sites to her and her office. And if you write a negative review, the office attempts to bill you 100 bucks per day until the negative comment is taken down.
From TechDirt here:
Our individual client, Robert Lee, had a bad experience, not with Makhnevich’s dental work, but with her billing and her failure to submit the documents he needed to get reimbursed by insurance. After his repeated efforts to get her office to do what they were supposed to do, he posted complaints on Yelp and on DoctorBase. Makhnevich threatened to sue him over the posts, and sent DMCA takedowns, but no doubt to her surprise, not only did the patient not remove his comments, but both Yelp and DoctorBase defied the threat of infringement liability, telling Makhnevich that they regarded her agreement with the patient as illegal. Undeterred, Makhnevich sent Lee invoices purporting to bill him $100 per day for the continued copyright infringement. Makhnevich also hired a lawyer who sent additional threats of litigation, but rather than continue to wait to be sued, Lee has now filed suit for a judgment declaring the agreement void, an injunction preventing Makhnevich from imposing the agreement on other patients, and a notice to all Makhnevich patients informing them that they are no longer restrained by the agreement.
And since this story broke, everyone has driven down Dr. Stacy’s Yelp ratings. In fact, most of the five star ratings she has ever received were from her own administrative staff, and many of those ratings have been deleted due to TOS violations.
I think she is a decent dentist, but she sings like an infected horse.
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SIRI Won’t Say How to Abort Your Baby
Nov 30th
That Rapscallion Steve jobs programmed some sort of twisted morality into his iPhone prior to shuffling off his mortal coil according to an emergent lawsuit by the ACLU against Apple. Apparently, you can ask Siri, the voice activated AI helper app how to find a prostitute and how to hide a dead body, but it won’t tell you how to find an abortion clinic. And boy howdy, those leftists are pissed now.
From CNET here:
It’s funny how Siri works. She will tell you where you can find an escort, drugs, or guns but can’t seem to help if you are seeking birth control or abortion clinics.
Today, the ACLU launched a petition that asks Apple to fix the “glitch” in the voice-activated service on the iPhone 4S so it provides useful information to people seeking information on reproductive resources.
Siri spews out information in response to all sorts of controversial queries, including “where can I get some dope” and “where can I dump a dead body,” notes the blog that first reported on the problem. And if you are desperate for some physical intimacy it will refer you to escort services, as well.
So vices appear to be fine, but Siri has a problem with reproductive information. CNET tested Siri, asking for “abortion clinics” and “birth control” and was told “I don’t see any” in both instances. But when asked “where can I shoot a gun?” Siri supplied the name of a gun shop 20 miles away.
Maybe this proves that Siri is smart and just doesn’t want anything to do with the decision to abort a baby. But it certainly proves that the ACLU wants to sue its way into your internet search results.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Byron Sonne Was Actively Extracting Explosive Gases When Arrested
Nov 30th
Byron Sonne’s supporters continue to do a great job posting evidence online that, to me, prove the Crown’s assertions that Sonne was actively building explosive materials to use during the runup to the G20. Listening to the interviews, I find it hard not to sympathize with Sonne when it is obvious that the Crown is chasing rabbits, such as with the allegations dealing with the Potato Gun and the failed Wave Guide experiment.
But they caught Sonne actively distilling explosive gases, and experimenting with homemade batteries, and registering with the Canadian rocketry club in an attempt to cover up his purchases of explosive compounds. And most laughably of all, Sonne admitted to voting for the Conservative Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper! He admits during the interview with Detective Bui that his vote would make him an outcast among his friends, yet he demands that his city remove all of the video cameras that they were installing for the G20. Plus, he was asking for copies of a G20 security badge so he could replicate it in his home lab.
Again, this video is prohibitively too long to watch, but I have noted the highlights above.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Bradley Manning’s Defense: No Harm, No Foul
Nov 29th
The most famous gay soldier ever is going to be on trial soon for releasing hundreds of megs of classified information to Wikileaks. David Coombs, Manning’s defense lawyer who is famous for defending other army turncoats, notably Hasan Akbar, who rolled grenades into the tents of his commanders, announced his first salvo to defend his client: The data wasn’t really all that classified and nobody got too, too hurt by it. Yeah, let’s see how that flies.
Bradley Manning and Tyler Watkins.
From CNET here:
Bradley Manning’s attorney has suggested that the hundreds of megabytes of U.S. government data his client allegedly handed to WikiLeaks didn’t really harm national security after all.
The filing, which defense attorney David Coombs made public today, requests a copy of a White House “report detailing the rather benign nature of the leaks and the lack of any real damage to national security” caused by WikiLeaks. It also seeks similar documents from the State Department, the Defense Department, and the Justice Department.
Manning, an Army private, was originally charged last July with sending a military video to a person not authorized to receive it and with obtaining “more than 150,000 diplomatic cables” from the State Department. WikiLeaks began to release the department’s internal cables last fall, following its publication of military dispatches from Afghanistan and Iraq a few months earlier.
The U.S. Army added 22 additional charges against Manning earlier this year. One of the new charges is an allegation of aiding the enemy, which carries severe penalties.
If Manning did in fact provide classified data to WikiLeaks, steal “a record or thing of value of the United States,” exceed his “authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) computer,” and commit the other unlawful acts that prosecutors allege he engaged in, the extent of damage to U.S. national security won’t save him from being convicted.
So maybe Attorney Coombs is already planning on a conviction and is just trying to save Manning from the firing squad.
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Darrel Issa is a Congressional Cyber Champion
Nov 28th
If you are not following Congressman Darrel Issa on Twitter, you should. He is the undisputed cyber thought leader in the House, and he objects to the Stop Online Piracy Act and how the Movie Industry is flooding Washington with lobbyists that, if they had their way, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter would be sued out of existence.
And those domains that were shut down without having SOPA already written into law? The huge bulk of them related to non-official NFL Jerseys.
The story about the Jersey takedown operation is here at Torrentfreak.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Byron Sonne’s Police Interview Reveals Admissions of Explosives Stockpiling
Nov 26th
Christopher Olah, a friend of Byron Sonne, has been releasing some good notes and other shared evidence relating to Byron Sonne’s ongoing trial up in Toronto for his explosives possession charges. In the video below, which is probably prohibitively long to watch, Byron is grilled by a police detective in an effort to help exonerate Sonne’s wife, Kristen Petersen, from any associated wrongdoing with the explosives charges. And in so doing, he manages to get Sonne to confess that he was stockpiling various chemicals that could be used as explosives for about 90 days running up to the G20.
Some of my notes from the video:
- Kristen Petersen warned Byron Sonne in a blog comment that she “would be really, really mad” if he managed to “blow up our house.” 3 Min mark
- Sonne was a huge fan of PirateBay and had downloaded quite a few texts related to domestic terrorism and how to commit it- Practical Pyrotechnics, Setting fires with Mechanical Timers by the terror group Earth Liberation Front and Ragner Benson’s Guide to Home and Recreational use of high Explosives. 15 Min Mark
- The detective tries to insinuate that Sonne’s neighbors had suffered electromagnetic problems with their communications equipment and tried to pin it on Sonne’s failed attempt to create a HERF gun, but I am certain that was BS. Sonne knew it too, and should have realized that the Detective couldn’t possibly have that kind of evidence if he knew that the HERF gun didn’t and couldn’t work.
- Also, Kristen Petersen had experienced a “failed pregnancy.” That was likely traumatic and is sometimes the root cause of failed relationships- so you couple this with Sonne’s anarchist behaviors, and experimentation with explosives, that gets her put in jail too, and its no wonder she divorced him while he was still locked up.
- At about 28 minutes, the Detective asks Sonne if he has any connections with US Militia groups or the Tea Party. WTF, the tea party? LOL, there is never any documented violence from the Tea Party, but Sonne’s association with members of the known-violent Occupy Wall Street movement is well established.
- At 45 minutes, the Detective tells Sonne that he will be testifying at Sonne’s trial and will either tell the Crown that Byron had a bomb and did not intend to use it. Or, he would testify that Sonne had a bomb and intended to use it at the G20. Either way it seemed that Sonne did not contest the fact that he had explosive materials.
- At 57 minutes, Sonne goes into detail on how he acquired the explosive components- He purchased the Ammonium Nitrate in small batches from local grocery stores because “he couldn’t buy 50 pound bags.” He acquired a lot of hexamine from camping stores. He also acquired trioxine.
- At 1:06, he admits to stockpiling all of the chemicals between March and June prior to his June arrest during the G20.
- At 1:11 he discusses how he acquired Potassium Silicate from a gardening store and acquiring large amounts of Hydrogen Peroxide as well for a “concept rocket.” But then admitted the concept rocket wouldn’t work without a platinum screen, which he was unable to afford. This also shoots down all of the excuses that the chemicals were supposed to be used for amateur rocketry- he admitted to only ever using kits with premade fuel sources and had never yet made his own.
Sonne had the knowledge, the instructions, the terrorist manuals, the chemicals, the facility, and the hatred of the government to create a bomb the attack the G20. As the detective said, it is only going to come down to intent. It will be tough to prove how Byron Sonne did not intend to be a threat.
I don’t even know if Sonne knows he confessed to a crime. In an effort to get his wife out of jail, he admitted, freely and without a lawyer, that all of the bomb-making chemicals were purchased after his wife’s blog comment about not blowing up the house. And in so doing, he basically said that all the chemicals were acquired within 90 days of the G20.
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Nov 22nd
This is a tragic and bizarre story courtesy of Rob Taylor here. A stupid single Mom who needed to get out of town for a couple of nights turned to Craigslist to find her babysitter. As a shock to no one, the lowest bidder for overnight kid watching was a disgusting blinkie-eyed high voiced child molester.
What a bad decision maker this failure of a mother is- can’t keep a man, can’t keep the support of family to watch the kids, and thinks that leaving town for a couple of nights is okay, and picks the worst possible babysitters, using the worst possible online resource.
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OWS Crying Crocodile Tears Over Smashed Laptops Built by Corporations
Nov 21st
Haven’t done a story on retarded OWSers in a while so here goes. After the police de-funkified Zuccotti park, they wrapped up all the piss-covered detritus that was left behind and put it in the dump. Including laptops and a mast used for wireless access. The owner of that equipment is completely butthurt because the sanitation department destroyed stuff he left behind after being arrested for breaking the law.
From Motherboard here:
…Isaac Wilder, head of the Free Network Foundation, late Thursday morning. Wilder, who we first met on Day 3 of the occupation, is an integral part of OWS’ Signal Corps, a working group that had been dedicated to providing free Wi-Fi to demonstrators within Zuccotti. During the raid, all of Wilder’s stuff, including the FNF’s Freedom Tower, a thin, maybe nine-foot-tall pole, loaded on all sides with nondescript routers that had been beaming out wireless access since early on in the occupation, was confiscated not long after he and another 200 or so protestors were hauled away (in garbage trucks) after barricading themselves in the middle of the park.
And so now, Wilder’s looking for his backpack, and his Freedom Tower. And $5000 in cash. This is all the money he has.
After about 30 minutes he sends us a text: “no sign of tower or backpack.” When he finally surfaces after another 30 minutes, descending a staircase into the howling, drabish underpass, the face gives it away.
Wilder hasn’t slept much in the last 36 hours. He looks shelled, haggard. No backpack. No cash. No tower.
Worse, it was as if someone along the way purposefully destroyed all confiscated electronics, a strategic smashing of at least part of the digital record logged by full-on occupiers. “They’ve all been smashed with bats.”
Smelly hippies protesting corporate greed should be smashing their own laptops. And if he’s lost sleep after being arrested, he should join the military to know what its really like to go without sleep and have a true “shelled” feeling. Laptops smashed? Good, now go home and beg Mommy to let you see Santa and ask him for a new laptop. And get a bath while you’re there, you stink.
And pissed because you lost your cash? Stupid hippie, that’s what banks are for.
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Sonne Fails to Toss Evidence Based on Warrant Irregularities
Nov 14th
The judge in the Byron Sonne explosives possession trial dismissed Sonne’s request to toss all of the evidence based on inaccuracies in the original search warrant that led to the discovery of bomb-making chemicals in Sonne’s home.
From the TorontoSun here:
The judge dismissed a motion by Sonne’s lawyer to have evidence obtained from two search warrants of his home tossed out.
If Spies had decided to quash the warrants, it would have resulted in a good deal of evidence — including chemicals found that could be used for making explosives — against Sonne being scratched from his impending trial.
Sonne, a 39-year-old computer geek with a long-standing interest in security, has pleaded not guilty to four charges of possessing explosive substances and one of counselling others to commit mischief.
“We were hoping for a better result,” dad Bue Sonne said. “But we really don’t understand so we’d rather not comment.”
Next the defense will try to get the computer forensics evidence tossed out, which will, of course, also fail. The problem with pro-bono lawyers is, you get what you pay for.
Checking twitter, I find that more of his supporters are on the wrong side of the law, one of which has a court order to stay away from the prosecutor.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Did Byron Sonne Intend to Attack Aircraft With Energy Weapon?
Nov 10th
An anonymous commenter on a Toronto Life blog post claimed that Byron Sonne was eager to complete his microwave waveguide gun or HERF Ray and joked about pointing it aircraft flying overhead to see what it would do. If such an energy weapon actually worked like Sonne imagined it would, the results of course, could have been catastrophic and deadly. The commenter lamented that he should have turned him in to the police for that statement.
Above is a photo of the microwave gun Sonne attempted to build. The photo is a screenshot of a photo from his Flickr account, captured shortly after Sonne’s arrest on charges of explosives possession in 2010. The weapon was assembled in the garage of the home where Sonne and his now ex-wife were living- a home purchased for them by Kristen Petersen’s parents. Instead of working for a living, Sonne agitated against the government and built anarchist-inspired weaponry, which is a great way to explain why Petersen divorced him while he was in jail awaiting trial.
Of course the HERF gun would not actually work, but Sonne’s comments were ominous. From the comments section of TorontoLife here:
I’ve known him indirectly for a long time and I read his blog. He was playing around with building a microwave death ray that actually looked plausible (and I am technically literate) and suggested at one point that it would be really cool if he could use it to take out the electronic controls of airplanes flying by. I almost reported him to the police at that point. I don’t find it surprising at all that that law enforcement felt that there was good reason to search his home.
November 8, 2011 at 5:13 pm | by jal
Of course Digimer, AKA Madison Kelly, quickly jumped on the blog post to cast doubts on the comments and on the author of the blog post, including threats to sue the author for defamation. You can continue reading the comments on that blog post to see my response to her.
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Byron Sonne On Trial
Nov 7th
Anarchist occupiers are agitating governments and citizenry all over North America, including Toronto, the site of Byron Sonne’s trial this week. I sincerely doubt that the Occupy Wall Street hippies are going to help Byron Sonne make his case that he wasn’t really amassing large quantities of TATP explosives to use in an attempt to detonate a bomb during the runup to the G20 in 2010. But he certainly stands in solidarity with anarchists and agitators.
From right to left, Sonne, Madison Kelly aka Digimer, a Sonne groupie, and Sonne Senior.
So the trial opened with Sonne’s defense team claiming that his rights were violated when he was photographing police barricades and disclosing security operations of the G20 infrastructure. From CBC news here:
The trial of a man charged with possessing explosives in the lead up to the G20 economic summit in Toronto began on Monday, with lawyers arguing his charter rights were violated when police detained him and searched his property.
Sonne faces one charge of possession of materials used to make explosives and another charge of counselling to commit mischief.
Police have alleged that Sonne, an independent internet security expert, planned to detonate a homemade explosive device in downtown Toronto while leaders were in town for the G20 summit.
Supporters of Sonne have said he was just trying to test how far police would infringe on civil liberties in the name of security. Sonne spent 11 months in jail on G20-related charges after being arrested last June.
Sonne claims his rights were first violated when police stopped him in June 2010 while he was taking pictures downtown Toronto of the security fence being erected. Police later obtained a search warrant based on information gleaned from Twitter and Flickr accounts linked to Sonne.
But Sonne claims that the information police used to get the warrant was misleading and “contained a number of falsehoods and inaccuracies, engaged in speculation and relied on information of dubious reliability.”
What the article fails to say is that the cops did find materials to assemble explosives in Sonne’s house- well, actually it was his ex-wife’s house; the house purchased for Sonne and Kristen Petersen by Petersen’s Dad.
Sonne didn’t work for a living, much like everyone else in the OWS and similar anarchist movements. Sure he claims he’s an Internet Security Expert, but experts have professional experience they can point to, and Sonne can’t put together a resume that would get him hired anywhere as an expert. His year in jail certainly doesn’t help that either, and his ISC2 certification has been suspended pending the outcome of the trial.
If he fails to prove that the cops violated his rights during the search and seizure of the explosives materials, it will be interesting to see what his lawyers come up with as a “plan B.”
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Nov 4th
Those whacky Taiwanese animators describe how Anonymous took steps to expose the source IP addresses of child pornographers.
You can read more about how they did it here at pastebin.
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Anonymous Draws Wrath of Los Zetas
Nov 3rd
The hacker group Anonymous, partially responsible for the Occupy Wall Street mobs, thought it would be fun to target the Los Zetas drug cartel. The cartel sent them a message to watch their backs by stringing up a couple of social networking users from a bridge. Anonymous collectively gulped at the news and ran to make sure they were hiding properly behind tor nodes and proxies.
From GMANews here:
Hacktivist group Anonymous is taking real-life security measures to protect bloggers joining it in exposing information about the “Los Zetas” Mexican drug cartel.
Computer security firm Sophos said Anonymous’ Ibero-American wing posted security steps to help bloggers in the #OpsCartel operation protect themselves.
“Anonymous Iberoamerica says it is creating a ‘special task force’ by invitation only. It is advising members to send messages through a proxy server or through Tor and is pleading with members to avoid identifying themselves as part of Anonymous,” Sophos said in a blog post.
Sophos noted Anonymous’ steps followed rumors that Zetas plans to hire “narco-hackers” to track down and physically retaliate against the hacktivists.
“Retaliation by this bloody, brutal cartel has already resulted in a body count: a man and a woman have been killed and hung from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo with signs warning against posting anti-cartel blogs,” it said.
It cited reports another anti-cartel blogger, a girl, was found beheaded in Nuevo Laredo.
Dude, the zetas have thunderdome armored cars and like killing. The kids in their mom’s basements who think they can hide their online activities might be in some real danger.
As Mikko Hyponnen of F-Secure tweeted:
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Going Galt on California
Nov 3rd
California is run by dangerous Democrats. The Governor of the state is allowing mobs to run rampant and shut down National Critical Infrastructure, namely, the port of Oakland, where many goods the nation receives is brought from overseas tankers. The moonbat mayor of Oakland, Jean Quan is throwing her full support behind the looters and mobs as the Occupy Oakland goons smash windows, destroy property and vandalize businesses.
I once worked for the Department of Homeland Security and understand the DHS mission to protect the National Critical Infrastructure- and ports are indeed a critical part of our national infrastructure. The steps taken to ensure that the free flow of goods remains uninterrupted are both costly and difficult, and lots of good people strive to make sure these assets are protected.
But when the Mayor of a city and a Governor of a State and the DHS Director and President all support the lunacy of mob action, the national critical infrastructure gets shut down.
Until the mobs go away, I will not be returning to California for business or pleasure. It simply is not safe. If the ports can be shut down, then so can airports, highways, railways, power plants and other critical infrastructure. I’m going Galt on California.
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Toshiba Laptop Skewers Man’s Hand
Oct 10th
I find it almost impossible to determine how this man was able to injure himself this severely by ejecting a DVD from his laptop. But apparently, a metal rod shot from the laptop and got all stabby with him.
From the NZHerald here:
A man’s attempt to play a DVD on his Toshiba laptop ended with him suffering serious injuries to his right hand after he was “shot” by the computer.
William Warner said he placed the disc on the tray, and was trying to close the drawer when a sharp piece of metal shot out of the drawer and pierced his right palm.
Nearly a year after being impaled by the 11cm “blade”, the 52-year-old driver from Whangaparaoa said he was still struggling to do simple chores and wants Toshiba to compensate him for his injuries after finding out from doctors that they may be permanent.
Toshiba’s first response was to offer him a replacement laptop, but Mr Warner said he had since began negotiating for financial compensation.
And boy, its a good thing he didn’t wash that wound before taking a left-handed photo with his phone. Sounds like a slip-and-fall scam to me.
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Yet Another Threatening Legal Email!
Oct 1st
Once again my website is being accused of all manners of legal evil-doing. This time, a band of Indians (dot not feathers) are threatening to launch DDOS attacks against my website because I once linked to a story over a year ago that details how Aiplex Software was launching distributed denial of service attacks against websites that were illegally hosting their software.
Now Jagadish of Aiplex sends me this threatening letter, accusing me of causing defamation to his company and causing his company to suffer losses due to damages and threats from hackers. Honestly, I never knew I had such awesome power by using hyperlinks to stories others have written!
From: Aiplex AntiPiracy [mailto:antipiracy@aiplex.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 4:53 AM
To: dr.jones@belch.com
Cc: Girish; Mahesh R
Subject: RequestThis has reference to the below article on your webpage, we kindly request you to deactivate the link as the article is defaming the company’s image & its prospects. It was mis-interpreted by the news agency which was blown out of proportion by some of the pirates across the globe. And subsequently we have to face damages/threats from the pirates & undergo immense losses due to their attack on our servers/websites etc.
Although, we did declare that we are not involved in any of those activities as published in the article, we still have to face the consequences for reasons unknown.
Below is the link for your reference:
http://www.belch.com/blog/category/movies/page/3/
We kindly request you to deactivate at the earliest possible please.
Appreciate your help on this matter.
Jagadish
Support Operations
Aiplex Software Pvt. Ltd.
No. 2943/E, 1st floor, Opp Maruthi Mandir,
Service Road, Vijayanagar,
Bangalore – 560 040
Ph : +91 80 23305411 / 12 / 13
Email : antipiracy@aiplex.com
Website : www.aiplex.com
To which I responded:
Please stop DDoSing me you evil bastards!
Now I get the following response from a lawyer for aiplex, who I’m sure has belch.com in the sites of his nefarious DDoS botnet:
I did clarify that we are not into such unscrupulous activity pls understand that it was a mis-interpretation by a news agency.
Anyways, it is your prerogative to keep it active or disable the link.
U have a nice weekend Patrick.
Best,
Girish Kumar N
Managing Director
Aiplex Software Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
Ph : +91 80 23305411 / 12 / 13
Mb : +91 98451 28280
Email : girish@aiplex.com
Website : www.aiplex.comConfidentiality & Non-Disclosure Warning: This message is intended for the exclusive use of the person or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain information that is confidential/privileged, and must be treated as such. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or making a decision in reliance of its content is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by error, please, destroy the message and kindly notify us immediately. Inappropriate/unauthorized use of the information shall be dealt with the applicable confidentiality and non-disclosure laws. Please note that while we scan all e-mails for viruses we cannot guarantee that any e-mail is virus-free and accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.
I snort loudly, by the way, for every lawyer who sends out a clear text email with a retarded non disclosure warning appended to it. I can disclose anything I want, and I dare anyone to find a law that says posting something like this is a breach of any confidentiality laws.
Who is the Girish Kumar who is spending so much time emailing me? This guy pictured here. The story from theAge in Australia describes further how Girish Kumar was bragging about launching DoS attacks against websites that link to movie downloads.
Anyways, I finally responded:
Wait a minute. Are you accusing me of defamation or not? Am I causing you to suffer damages and threats because of hackers or not? Your email seemed to imply this, and my own legal team will need clarification. And of course, I expect if I don’t comply you will immediately DDOS me, right? That’s what you guys do, right? Send threats and then strong arm/abuse people to bow to your every demand to remove links? So even if you talk about piracy its as bad as committing piracy because now you are going to wreak havoc on my internets page because I linked to a story about you guys running huge DDOS operations against pirates?
Lets see what they say next! In the mean time, Girish has joined other legal scholars who have decided to send me threatening emails. At least this one’s not a clown.
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