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cock.li. The proud owner of nigge.rs, horsefucker.org and goat.si. RIP in peace

• leppr 11y ago
  The "anonymous mail service with offensive names" could be made a standard indicator of a country's freedom of speech status. Actually, that'd be a good research project: setup and host such a service in as many countries as possible, wait as they get shutdown (+6 points)/subpoenaed (+3)/ddosed (+1) and make a map.
  • Bud 11y ago
    Not responsive or relevant to this situation, in two very important ways: first, this isn't just any email service, a threat which cost millions of dollars was made from this service. Second, and more crucially, the service was NOT shut down.
    • leppr 11y ago
      I'll just answer by emphasizing two words in the comment you replied to. a threat which cost millions of dollars was made from this service. ...anonymous mail service... the service was NOT shut down. ...wait as they get shutdown (+6 points)/subpoenaed (+3)/ddosed (+1) ...
    • bendykstra 11y ago
      > a threat which cost millions of dollars It was the reaction to the threat which cost millions of dollars. We should be careful to distinguish between the costs of terrorism and the costs of our reaction to it.
      • cpncrunch 11y ago
        You might think differently if you were responsible for those children. Do you want to take the risk that it might be a real threat? How do you tell the difference between a real threat and one that isn't real? I'm guessing the people at the school district thought the small risk wasn't worth it, and decided to close the schools. Who would want to be labelled as the person who didn't close the schools if someone ended up getting killed? Even if the threat seems implausible, it must be a very difficult decision to make. There have been many bomb threats recently, probably mostly implausible, but for every one of them the airline acts as if it might be a real threat.
        • aaronem 11y ago
          You might not, too. The LA district shut down. The NY district, which also received a threat, did not. Why? And why the difference in response?
          • cpncrunch 11y ago
            I'm aware of that, and I don't know the answer. All I'm saying is that it was not necessarily unreasonable.
          • mikeyouse 11y ago
            Why a difference in response? A few days earlier, less than 100 miles from the LA school district, 14 people were killed by ISIS-inspired terrorists who also had a garage full of pipebombs. What administrator in their right mind wouldn't be extra cautious with specific threats?
  • vacri 11y ago
    At a security conference a couple of years ago in Melbourne, a speaker said that for entertainment, he used to set up a Tor exit node and time how long it took to get the not-legally-enforceable ceast-and-desist letter from the authorities. Apparently he had it right down to a couple of hours.
• aaronem 11y ago
  Seeing as he's yet to be accused of anything except being a community-minded sysadmin with a low sense of humor, I'm not sure a mere lack of taste excuses the extremely unsympathetic media attention that's been focused on the operator of this service in the last few days.
  • Nadya 11y ago
    I use the provided mail service (@tfwno.gf) explicitly due to how transparent he is. Same reason why I used and donated to pomf.se before its closure (different person). If the only people who care about users and practice active disclosure of subpoenas are people with low-brow humor, so be it, I'll continue to support them. E: Also a quick note there is a bit of misinformation floating around. He doesn't own many of the domains, he just runs the mailservers for them.
  • s73v3r 11y ago
    Nobody is accusing him of anything other than hosting some poor joke domains. However, his domain was the one that the emails threatening several school districts came from. And while I'm sure they don't think he's the culprit, his server would still have some evidence on it.
    • aaronem 11y ago
      Have you seen CBS's [1] and the Daily Mail's [2] hit pieces on him? Of the latter such flagrant nonsense is to be expected, but one generally doesn't expect to see CBS descend to the same level. [1] http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/12/18/cbs-news-maine-native-based-in-romania-at-center-of-school-threats-probe/ http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/12/18/cbs-news-maine-nat... [2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3367044/Maine-college-drop-21-center-hoax-terrorist-threat-emails-New-York-Las-Vegas-issue-subpoenas-former-student-claims-knows-origin-posts.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3367044/Maine-colleg...
      • Bud 11y ago
        That wasn't from CBS, it was from a local TV station, which is quite different.
• tomp 11y ago
  Tor browser. The proud enabler of child porn industry.
  • dogma1138 11y ago
    I'm pretty sure there's more child porn on P2P networks, Usenet and the just over private internet forums/sites than on TOR.
    • tomp 11y ago
      My point was, just because there exists one (perfectly valid) objection to Tor, it doesn't mean the project as a whole is negative and should be shut down (what the parent seems to be implying about this email provider).
    • runn1ng 11y ago
      I would bet that maybe not, but a disproportionate number of darknet websites is. P(darknet | child porn) might be low, as you are suggesting, but P(child porn | darknet) >>> P(child porn | clearweb), in orders of magnitude.
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