this is just a rant by me...but enh w/e don't read it if you don't want to.
People often ask me where I'm from, how old i am, my name, do i have a myspace, facebook, or other social site. Even the simple question of my IM s/n name often pisses me off. It's not that I mind giving out certain information but its the people like me or worse that make me worry. I have spent a better part of a decade an a half learning the so called "tricks of the trade", and as time goes on from the things i have learned i ask how long until my time has come.
In 1994 when i first emerged myself on the "hacking" (and i use the term loosely) scene things were so different. Cyberspace was anarchy there was no governing power. Easily accessible were things like "CC Master v4" or "The Anarchist Cook Book". Shoot even d/ling of warez and illicit pornography was at extreme ease of a click of the mouse button. I'm not condoning those things, just merely pointing out the significance in change. Yes there are places you can still obtain things with out much risk of penalty and with a small bit of work. But those places are often well kept secrets or soon targeted areas. The golden days of illicit activities have passed and as many seem to think they're not now being watched or monitored they will soon come to find out their delusions are in fact not reality.
Some time between 1996-1998 i remember reading about a secret government program named "carnivore" intended for the FBI to monitor the internet activities of all net users. This program was later abandoned in 2001 and replaced with commercial applications. The most current of these applications is CIPAV. CIPAV is a spyware application tool that legally (thanks to the patriot act) can be installed on any and all US citizens machines completely bypassing any protection or rights a citizen may have. But don't worry if you live in another country the FBI has recently filed with FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) to allow their monitoring of all nationalities. GO GO GLOBAL POLICE! What was that awesome saying from that matt stone and trey parker movie? oh yeah "Team America **** YEAH". ****ing bull shit. CIPAV has already been used to condemn one person in July '07 for sending bomb threats to their school. Oh well enough about CIPAV if you want to learn more a simple Google search will give you the dirt. Or just feel free to ask and i will try to answer.
Over Christmas '07 over 25,000 arrest were made by the FBI with the help of a couple company's known as Rapidshare and Megaupload. They released 100's of thousands of ip's of people that have uploaded and/or downloaded any of the following copyright infringed material, child pornography, viruses, and other illicit content. The 25,000 arrests were majority made up of child pornography perps in an attempt to "clean up the internet" & "prevent child abuse".
Last night while going about my daily business i stumbled upon one of these ip capture sites and was stunned. The message across the page on the megaupload link i had found read "We are working with the FBI to prevent child abuse and copyright infringement, have a nice day.". So the rumors are true...well that sucks...oh well no more using file hosting as a last means to find those apps i want. **** it newsgroups got what i want most the time anyways.
A little over a month ago Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and a few others all met with the RIAA, the EFF, and a few congressional security councils to discuss copyright infringement, ip throttling, torrents, and internet charging. The end results were this, as long as stated within the terms of service (which Verizon has always had and Comcast just recently added) isp's were aloud to throttle traffic to users for what ever reasons they deem nessicary (this means say goodbye to high speed torrent d/l). On top of that isp's were granted permission to monitor the networks and look at the data being sent to and from a computer. Now i'm sure this is not set in stone and the EFF will be making a huge stink about it, but still that just sucks. Don't believe me? Go ahead read your terms of service contract which just like WoW you have to sign in order to use the service you are paying for.
But wait the service you are paying for maybe changing in the near future. During said conference the discussion of internet usage packages came up. A revolutionary new way for the isp companies to squeeze every last nickel and dime out of our already in debt pockets. This new performance plan is not good for you the user, instead of paying your flat monthly fee users would have to pay per gigabyte they transfered. Now i have 15/2 fios connection and i can d/l about 8 gigs in an hour, and trust me 100 gigs i can kill in less then half a day. I suppose this new idea is good for johnny nobody in middle America who has 2/0.5 high speed right now and cant possibly kill 5 gigs a month. But trust me when he finally gets the good shit out his way hes going to be super pissed.
Well for those that think America has all the problems remember we start em and let you finish them
. Take for instance the recent Denmark court ruling pressured by the RIAA for the blocking of the bitorrent tracker ThePirateBay from all danish isp's.
Personally i wish someone would give those guys a break. It would be like me suing Micro$oft because someone wrote a virus i d/led and executed that crashed my windows. Yes thepiratebay does track pirated material but they don't upload it. Yes the exploit was in M$ code but they didn't write the virus that exploited it. See what I'm saying? Jeez what ever happened to the saying only in America. LoL.
I dunno I'm all for some sort of alternative to means to gaining copyrighted material. But trying to big brother in the jungle just wont work. As long as there is a will there is a way.
In short it seems the internet is becoming more and more policed everyday. And with the coming of a new American election we will see both sides fighting to do their part to crack down on the cyber world putting their positive spin on it.
If i haven't managed to make you scared with my past writings maybe these things will make you look a little closer. I thought about citing all these stories, but in the end i decided **** it if you want to know go to Google and search or just ask for more clarification. Most of these news stories i came across awhile back but enh w/e. I had about 6-7 more things I wanted to touch on but i'm tired, so maybe i will touch more on them later.
Feel free to discuss,
-DeMoN
The Big Brother Rant *no not the tv show think 1984*
The Big Brother Rant *no not the tv show think 1984* -
02-08-2008
