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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

trump's going to kill a bunch of people for this, probably ones you know, maybe you, consider toning down the epic poasting

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[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

But like how? Nuke the servers in France?

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Authoritative answer for "hexbear.net" is provided by a Cloudflare DNS server. They're an American company so the feds could call them up and do whatever they want with it. Okay, so maybe our admins use a different nameserver. The ".net" zone is administered by Verisign, an American company, so actually they could call them up and do whatever and that's it. Actually most of the root DNS nameservers are in amerikkka

Okay, no DNS, everyone just saves the IP address of the server in France and it never changes. Idk if the Americans could force the French government to cooperate and get them to seize the servers or get the cloud server provider to do the same..... but I don't think it's unlikely. Those are just the conventional, legal ways to do it. But an enormous amount of internet infrastructure is in the US or administered by a US company and we know from Snowden that the American security state has implants all throughout internet infrastructure. And we also know the NSA hoards exploits and has a department (Tailored Access Operations) specializing in hacking into things

If they really wanna do it, they can find a way

Idk I'm just riffing but tbh computer security is kinda a myth or at least extremely difficult to actually pull off building secure computer systems

This is why China, Iran, now Russia, the DPRK, and others basically have a separate but still connected internet from the main US-dominated one and are prepared to disconnect at any time

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Oh that sucks sadness I'd hate to lose this site, it's the only thing keeping me sane with fascist rhetoric rising everywhere

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

It does suck :(

The internet is a very US-dominated and centralized thing :(

Would be in favor of moving the site onto Tor or I2P if things start looking bad

[-] Currently_on_Nitrous@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Idk if the Americans could force the French government to cooperate and get them to seize the servers

What.cd was a music/book/software torrent site that rose from the ashes of oink's pink place. The french government indeed seized the the servers at the request of the American Government.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

mega share or whatever it was called back in the day was fully based out of new zealand and the US made a few calls and had Kim DotCom's house raided by NZ swat types and they took his shit and shut the site down

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

yeah, it was famously an illegal raid and they did it anyway

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

MegaUpload, brings back memories of my LUELinks days….

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago
[-] Currently_on_Nitrous@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah it was pretty fucked up, what.cd had some some of the strictest content rules of any tracker. Just to get on you had to do an interview with an admin with questions ranging from "what kind of music do you listen to?" to "What is your primary mode of transportation?" I think it only had ~300,000 users, you had to maintain a ratio so that every member contributed to the site. Some big artists like Trent Reznor were members and would actually put their own albums up because they knew what users were super vocal about spreading stuff that they like.

[-] NoamParenti@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Rippy in Peace. meow-hug

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