trump's going to kill a bunch of people for this, probably ones you know, maybe you, consider toning down the epic poasting

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      4 months ago

      In the uh, in the name of uh, unity, and uh civility, I have uh allowed all the names and addresses of anyone ever mean to Trump to be posted online in an easily searchable database. Hate has no uh p-place in our society. biden-troll

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      taking the website down for a failed assassination was not ok

        • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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          4 months ago

          snowden leaked it and another few subsequent leaks confirmed it (these include their literal cyberweapons one time there).

          so yeah, the us has pretty much full access to everything thats online.

            • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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              4 months ago

              More or less

              Remember back in like 2016 when everyone was getting hacked by that NotPetya ransomware? That was because some extremely nasty exploits for Windows the NSA had been hoarding got out and people started using them because they were so reliable and devastating, like "take over any Windows system anywhere as long as you have network access to it" devastating

              They have to be careful about it though, so no one figures out what they are and patches them

              They definitely have more, probably a lot more

              Specifically, the Snowden thing they were talking about was probably when Snowden leaked a literal catalog of cyberweapons US security state ghouls could order and use lmao

          • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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            4 months ago

            Authoritative answer for "hexbear.net" is provided by a Cloudflare DNS server. They're an American company so the feds could call them up and do whatever they want with it. Okay, so maybe our admins use a different nameserver. The ".net" zone is administered by Verisign, an American company, so actually they could call them up and do whatever and that's it. Actually most of the root DNS nameservers are in amerikkka

            Okay, no DNS, everyone just saves the IP address of the server in France and it never changes. Idk if the Americans could force the French government to cooperate and get them to seize the servers or get the cloud server provider to do the same..... but I don't think it's unlikely. Those are just the conventional, legal ways to do it. But an enormous amount of internet infrastructure is in the US or administered by a US company and we know from Snowden that the American security state has implants all throughout internet infrastructure. And we also know the NSA hoards exploits and has a department (Tailored Access Operations) specializing in hacking into things

            If they really wanna do it, they can find a way

            Idk I'm just riffing but tbh computer security is kinda a myth or at least extremely difficult to actually pull off building secure computer systems

            This is why China, Iran, now Russia, the DPRK, and others basically have a separate but still connected internet from the main US-dominated one and are prepared to disconnect at any time

            • Currently_on_Nitrous [comrade/them, any]
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              4 months ago

              Idk if the Americans could force the French government to cooperate and get them to seize the servers

              What.cd was a music/book/software torrent site that rose from the ashes of oink's pink place. The french government indeed seized the the servers at the request of the American Government.

              • peeonyou [he/him]
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                4 months ago

                mega share or whatever it was called back in the day was fully based out of new zealand and the US made a few calls and had Kim DotCom's house raided by NZ swat types and they took his shit and shut the site down

                • Currently_on_Nitrous [comrade/them, any]
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                  4 months ago

                  Yeah it was pretty fucked up, what.cd had some some of the strictest content rules of any tracker. Just to get on you had to do an interview with an admin with questions ranging from "what kind of music do you listen to?" to "What is your primary mode of transportation?" I think it only had ~300,000 users, you had to maintain a ratio so that every member contributed to the site. Some big artists like Trent Reznor were members and would actually put their own albums up because they knew what users were super vocal about spreading stuff that they like.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Several states have banned Pornhub so they could hypothetically banning a site nation wide could be done

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      If I try to log on tomorrow and I'm not greeted with an FBI Domain Seized page, I will be disappointed in the cowardice of the libs on this site.

      • Chronicon [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        so the thing about that is

        it only really helps if you are only on tor, from the perspective of "feds seize the server" at least. Cause in the cause of onion services the server IP is protected as well as the people browsing/traffic to the site.

        It could help with domain seizure or DNS blocks though I suppose.