> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 6:10 PM > To: [email protected] > 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? _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
