I saw that this website www.channelsurfing.net has been seized by none other than Homeland Security. The website use to link people to streams that others are broadcasting. Similar to how Google links people to other sites.
Now when you try to search for channelsurfing.net on Google you will find that Google censors those results. The beauty of the internet is that the gov’t couldn’t seem to get it’s hands around it - but it seems like those ever growing tenacles know no bounds.
Yes, it does make me sick they can do that. Not quite sure how I feel about them taking down the botnet. Pretty happy I’m not getting spammed quite as much anymore
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Yes, it does make me sick they can do that. Not quite sure how I feel about them taking down the botnet. Pretty happy I’m not getting spammed quite as much anymore
Wasn’t it Microsoft who took down the botnet a few days ago?
Brandholz: I think that Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and some of the other “shiny brand” internet sites are indeed part of the Establishment complex and are working as part of a larger design to tame the Internet. There’s some interesting reasons to think that Google has actually been in bed with US intelligence since day one. That said, I don’t think it’s going to work and here’s why. Recently, the Transport Security Administration started seizing people’s laptops (there was one notable incident at the Canadian border where this happened). They reserve the right to electronically access any device they seize in search of evidence of terrorism, and so on. Homeland security and all that Nazi bullshit. Well, I am an engineer for a major corporation (100,000 employees, $112 billion market cap) in the US tech industry and within a week after the incident at the Canadian border, corporate had rolled out mandatory, full-drive PGP encryption on 100% of all hard drives. It can take months to get even minor issues on your laptop fixed because IT here is pretty overloaded, bloated and inefficient. But I am not kidding you, they rolled out full hard drive encryption within a matter of weeks on all laptops. They’re not playing around because the potential for legal losses are in the billions, not millions. If a hard drive got seized by TSA and legal secrets were exposed and sold off, the company could be sued to bankruptcy.
There are many companies in the same position as the company I work for, so I assume that many other companies responded to this incident or others like it. So, in the act of making a petty power grab, the US government has unwittingly hardened a large segment of the digital infrastructure and I think this incident is exemplary of what is going to continue to happen in the future. No, hackers are not going to free us all from The Man and usher in 1000 years of peace and libertarian Utopia as was often depicted during the 1990’s. That said, I think the Establishment is facing a technologically enhanced form of evolutionary resistance to measures of control. Each new control measure spawns new and, ultimately, less controllable workarounds and this is occurring faster than ever before. Which would you rather have, Napster or BitTorrent?? Sure, they took down Napster. Now we have BitTorrent. Thank you for BitTorrent, MPAA! You have only yourselves and your totalitarian DMCA to thank for it!!
Clayton -