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Nessun: “Because I Could”

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Nessun, owner of the Rizon IRC network, has been named before on this website as source of DDoS attacks. IRC-Junkie was unaware that one of the three suspects reported about in the “FBI Arrests Three Botherders” article written 10 days ago, namely Jason Michael Downey, is in fact the same Nessun.

Downey, 24, has pleaded guilty for operating a botnet and computer fraud. Asking his reasons behind performing DDoS attacks U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds heard his reply: “I was doing it because I could, more than anything,” Downey replied. “It was a dumb thing to do.”

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Rizon, Scum
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DrinkOrDie Member Sentenced to 51 Month Jail

Monday, June 25th, 2007

In May 2002 the FBI and law enforcement agencies worldwide arrested members of the DrinkOrDie warez group in an operation named Operation Buccaneer. One member, Hew Raymond Griffiths who was arrested in Australia and transported to U.S.A. received a 51 month jail sentence for his part in the warez group.

Originally started in Russia in 1993 and operating from a channel on EFNet, the group quickly became a group with members worldwide. It specialized in cracking software, but also released films and music.

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Tags: EFNet, IRC, Piracy
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Is IRC on the Decline?

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Recently I wrote an article named “IRC: Too Complicated?”. It turned out to become one of those article that sparked a bit of discussion left and right, and caused my inbox to fill up with comments as well. The tone of some of those were much darker, that of IRC to be on the decline in general. Could it be that bad? And if so, is there a possibility it can be stopped, or is IRC really doomed? In this (much larger then you’re used too from IRC-Junkie) article I will try and find out.

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Tags: IRC
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FBI Arrests Three Botherders

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

With the arrest of three suspect botherders the FBI discovered botnets that consist of about a million infected machines worldwide. Amongst the charges for the three are spamming and infecting IT systems at hospitals.

The operation took place under the name “Operation Bot Roast”, which is an on-going operation to hunt down botnets and their owners.

Among the three men arrested is Robert Soloway from Seattle, a long time spam king. Another man, Downey, controlled his botnet consisting of Agobot infected machines from an IRC server and performed DDoS attacks.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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Freenode and OFTC Networks Start Cooperation

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

About half a decade ago Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC) separated from OpenProjects.net, founded by Rob ‘lilo” Levin, because of different opinions on fund raising and managing the project.

One year ago Rob Levin was hit by a car and died by the injuries. Freenode has since then made changes within its managing structure where users can have more influences in decision making and a more transparent organization in general.

This new cooperation between the two networks initially will be observing each others operations and swapping of of staff. What the future cooperation will be like, including a possible merger is not yet laid out. But both sides are interested in taking next steps.

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Tags: freenode, IRC
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