23-02-2012, 01:09 AM
Charles,
You say that you have identified, exposed and banished some enemy infiltrators, and all I ask is who are they?
Do they have names? Did they use aliases while posting here?
Did they do any harm?
I know all about Colby, and have him cornered so he can't hurt me or my work and he just argues with those who want to argue with him.
You are correct in that we are at war, but it's not just as simple as being able to banish instigators from your forum, as they will just go elsewhere and continue to wreck havoc.
Can you identify those who you have exposed and banished or not, and if not, why not?
Even though they can no longer post here and bother you, they are still a threat to others, including me.
Dan Brandt, one of the first to post online really significant information about those who killed JFK in his NAMEBASE, and who was the first to post one of my articles on line (A New Oswald Witness Goes Pubic), has been attacked by these same forces and has thrown in the towel, has surrendered and is now offline.
If we are really at war, we must not only draw the battle lines, but outline the order of battle so we know who we are up against and can defend ourselves against them.
Smuggly kicking them off your forum without identifying them to others is not a good defense.
We are under attack, and if Dan Brandt has surrendered his site, we have lost a major ally.
That's not a sense of sarcasm you detect, it is a sense of dismay and gloom, and if you can tell us who they are, please do so others, like me, can protect ourselves.
Bill Kelly
JFKcountercoup
See:
Scroogle, the search engine operated by privacy militant and self-appointed Wikipedia watchdog Daniel Brandt, has folded for real. After enduring DDOS attacks "around the clock" that sent a flood of unsustainable traffic to his servers, Mr. Brandt took down the search engine along with his other four domains, namebase.org, google-watch.org, cia-on-campus.org,and book-grab.com. His theory is that he was being attacked by hackers with a personal vendetta.
"These four domains had also been on the web for a longtime NameBase first went online in 1997, and before that had been available on telnet since 1995. I spent 27 years developing NameBase," he said in an email, and referred to the Wikipedia page.
"I no longer have any domains online," Mr. Brandt wrote."I also took all my domains out of DNS because I want to signal to the criminal element that I have no more servers to trash. This hopefully will ward off further attacks on my previous providers."
Scroogle was a basic search engine that takes users to their Google results through a circuitous route that masks much of the data Google normally harvests. Google tolerated the site, which had its own nonprofit, and a Google engineer even helped Mr. Brandt get Scroogle white listed a few times. But recently, Google started punishing Scroogle severely for queries, choking off access for 90 minutes at a time. Google says it was not targeting Scroogle but that the search engine may have tripped a spam control mechanism.
"Scroogle.org is gone forever," Mr. Brandt wrote. "Even if all my DDoS problems had never started in December, Scroogle was already getting squeezed from Google's throttling, and was already dying. It might have lasted another six months if I hadn't lost seven servers from DDoS, but that's about all."
The search engine had some die-hardfans. But if privacy friendliness is what you seek, there are otheroptions.
Scroogle.com, formerly a porn site and the cause of someembarrassing NSFW confusion, has also gone off the air.
Adrianne Jeffries is a reporter for Betabeat and The NewYork Observer. GPG public key: 222D2F697E12899D. Follow Adrianne on Twitter or via RSS. ajeffries@observer.com
See also
ScroogleMay Have Been a Victim of Hackers, Not GoogleDidGoogle Just Disable Privacy-Friendly Scroogle? [UPDATED]
You say that you have identified, exposed and banished some enemy infiltrators, and all I ask is who are they?
Do they have names? Did they use aliases while posting here?
Did they do any harm?
I know all about Colby, and have him cornered so he can't hurt me or my work and he just argues with those who want to argue with him.
You are correct in that we are at war, but it's not just as simple as being able to banish instigators from your forum, as they will just go elsewhere and continue to wreck havoc.
Can you identify those who you have exposed and banished or not, and if not, why not?
Even though they can no longer post here and bother you, they are still a threat to others, including me.
Dan Brandt, one of the first to post online really significant information about those who killed JFK in his NAMEBASE, and who was the first to post one of my articles on line (A New Oswald Witness Goes Pubic), has been attacked by these same forces and has thrown in the towel, has surrendered and is now offline.
If we are really at war, we must not only draw the battle lines, but outline the order of battle so we know who we are up against and can defend ourselves against them.
Smuggly kicking them off your forum without identifying them to others is not a good defense.
We are under attack, and if Dan Brandt has surrendered his site, we have lost a major ally.
That's not a sense of sarcasm you detect, it is a sense of dismay and gloom, and if you can tell us who they are, please do so others, like me, can protect ourselves.
Bill Kelly
JFKcountercoup
See:
Scroogle, the search engine operated by privacy militant and self-appointed Wikipedia watchdog Daniel Brandt, has folded for real. After enduring DDOS attacks "around the clock" that sent a flood of unsustainable traffic to his servers, Mr. Brandt took down the search engine along with his other four domains, namebase.org, google-watch.org, cia-on-campus.org,and book-grab.com. His theory is that he was being attacked by hackers with a personal vendetta.
"These four domains had also been on the web for a longtime NameBase first went online in 1997, and before that had been available on telnet since 1995. I spent 27 years developing NameBase," he said in an email, and referred to the Wikipedia page.
"I no longer have any domains online," Mr. Brandt wrote."I also took all my domains out of DNS because I want to signal to the criminal element that I have no more servers to trash. This hopefully will ward off further attacks on my previous providers."
Scroogle was a basic search engine that takes users to their Google results through a circuitous route that masks much of the data Google normally harvests. Google tolerated the site, which had its own nonprofit, and a Google engineer even helped Mr. Brandt get Scroogle white listed a few times. But recently, Google started punishing Scroogle severely for queries, choking off access for 90 minutes at a time. Google says it was not targeting Scroogle but that the search engine may have tripped a spam control mechanism.
"Scroogle.org is gone forever," Mr. Brandt wrote. "Even if all my DDoS problems had never started in December, Scroogle was already getting squeezed from Google's throttling, and was already dying. It might have lasted another six months if I hadn't lost seven servers from DDoS, but that's about all."
The search engine had some die-hardfans. But if privacy friendliness is what you seek, there are otheroptions.
Scroogle.com, formerly a porn site and the cause of someembarrassing NSFW confusion, has also gone off the air.
Adrianne Jeffries is a reporter for Betabeat and The NewYork Observer. GPG public key: 222D2F697E12899D. Follow Adrianne on Twitter or via RSS. ajeffries@observer.com
See also
ScroogleMay Have Been a Victim of Hackers, Not GoogleDidGoogle Just Disable Privacy-Friendly Scroogle? [UPDATED]