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Pirates Under Attack

July 15, 2010 by noemi Leave a Comment

The Pirate Bay is arguably the best known file sharing web site today. This group has risen to fame over the years due to their service of providing millions of users around the world with all sorts of files – many of them considered to be illegally shared. There was a time when The Pirate Bay was taken down and was temporarily “closed.”

Recently, it has been quite active again, with users continuing their file sharing activities. This time, though, The Pirate Bay came under attack – from a different source. A group of researchers from Argentina took it upon themselves to show the vulnerability of the site.

What they did was to hack into the system, compromising the data of more than 4 million registered users of The Pirate Bay. The group announced its “feat” in their blog, Insilence.biz, and went one step further by outlining the specific details of how they did it. This is what they have to say:

As any other website, as any other system or mechanism, www.thepiratebay.org has robust parts and soft spots. We [believe] that the people behind this [community] always acted with the local laws on their side, and so have we. The community caused problems to huge companies and corporations[,] which turned into threats between this companies and them. What we have done, we did not do it with anger, or for commercial value. As always, we saw the change, the moment and decided to take it. The protocol or procedure done to achieve this wasn’t anything out of the ordinary…

Just like many of the commenters in their blog, I do not totally understand why they hacked the site. Perhaps it was out of a twisted sense of justice? What do you think about this move? Is it justified or is it a mere publicity stunt?

Filed Under: Media, Security Tagged With: file sharing, hacking, peer to peer networks, The Pirate Bay

The Big Book of BitTorrent Tells Everything You Should Know and More

April 27, 2009 by Arnold Zafra Leave a Comment

So you think you knew everything about Peer to Peer’s  BitTorrent? Well, there might be some more important information that you thought you knew but actually  still don’t know yet.  Unfortunately not knowing those information might lead you to a frustrating BitTorrent experience.  Fortunately for all of us (yes that includes me),  there is now  The Big Book of BitTorrent: The Torrent Guide for Everyone. [Read more…] about The Big Book of BitTorrent Tells Everything You Should Know and More

Filed Under: Web Tools Tagged With: bittorrent, file sharing, p2p

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