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Here's the Krebs story: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive... The board

Here's the Krebs story: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive... The board was "pr0gramm". In Krebs' words, "Multiple longtime pr0gramm members have remarked that since cha0s departed as administrator, the forum has become overrun by individuals with populist far-right political leanings." He also justifies the "dox" because: "So I set about trying to figure out who’s running pr0gramm. It wasn’t easy, but in the end all of the information needed to determine that was freely available online. Let me be crystal clear on this point: All of the data I gathered (and presented in the detailed ‘mind map’ below) was derived from either public Web site WHOIS domain name registration records or from information posted to various social media networks by the pr0gramm administrators themselves. In other words, there is nothing in this research that was not put online by the pr0gramm administrators themselves."

formerly_proven 5y ago
I remember that! Thousands of pr0gramm users started donating money to the German cancer fund and other charities with the subject line "Krebs ist Scheiße" (Krebs is German for cancer). They made headlines with that. Lots of people outside pr0gramm started donating a bit later because of the articles. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of Euros in donations iirc.
- ahofmann 5y ago
  They do this annually and are raising around 200k € every year for help against cancer. One could see this as a good outcome, but they made donations before the krebs story. They just started to talk about it after the story and that was something that was they didn't want to. One rule of pr0 is that you don't talk about the pr0. That was a good rule. Pr0 was like the internet was around 1999. A place to be together and having fun. A place to talk about everything. A social place, not those cancerous monsters that call themselves social networks these days. Now they have to worry about what outsiders think about them and that slowly kills everything that was great about it.

formerly_proven 5y ago

I remember that! Thousands of pr0gramm users started donating money to the German cancer fund and other charities with the subject line "Krebs ist Scheiße" (Krebs is German for cancer). They made headlines with that. Lots of people outside pr0gramm started donating a bit later because of the articles. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of Euros in donations iirc.

ahofmann 5y ago
They do this annually and are raising around 200k € every year for help against cancer. One could see this as a good outcome, but they made donations before the krebs story. They just started to talk about it after the story and that was something that was they didn't want to. One rule of pr0 is that you don't talk about the pr0. That was a good rule. Pr0 was like the internet was around 1999. A place to be together and having fun. A place to talk about everything. A social place, not those cancerous monsters that call themselves social networks these days. Now they have to worry about what outsiders think about them and that slowly kills everything that was great about it.