Re: US Customs vs the pirates

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 6:10 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: [funsec] US Customs vs the pirates
>
> US Customs, a wholly owned subsidiary of DHS, has seized some domain
> names of
> companies distributing movies.
>
> http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2010/07/takedown/
>
> "Though the actual servers hosting the alleged pirate web sites
resided
> in different
> countries (including the Netherlands and Germany), the video sites
> registered the
> domain names using US based companies."
>
> Interesting jurisdictional issues.
>
> Also, it appears to have been fairly ineffective.
Based on my regular analysis of thepiratebay.org and associated torrent
seeds, I'd say they also grabbed it. The SSL cert chain was broken for a
day or so.

Everyone here does know that torrents are used to distribute malware,
often in oddball packages, such as movies that download "codecs" that
are Trojans, right?



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