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The "Daily Stormer", a neo-Nazi website that has been having trouble staying online since Charlottesville, has once again been shutdown.
According to The Verge:
The neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer briefly returned to the web today, using a new URL and a string of new hosts to dodge the bans that took it off the internet last week. The site reappeared this morning at the address Punished-stormer.com, apparently using Dreamhost as both a host and DNS provider.
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Shortly after the new site became public, Anonymous groups began a denial-of-service attack against it, targeting the Dreamhost DNS infrastructure that makes the site accessible to the rest of the web. The result was nearly two hours of intermittent downtime for the countless sites using Dreamhost's DNS infrastructure.
In WWII, things like this were called "collateral damage", where innocent casualties were necessary in order to get at the Nazis themselves. But is this sort of action legitimate on the internet? Especially by non-governmental organizations?
Also reported at https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/08/dreamhost-ddos-attack/
Related story: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/21/16180614/charlottesville-daily-stormer-alt-right-internet-domain
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 27 2017, @01:53PM (2 children)
You say the users decreed the namespace collision can only be solved by a central authority?
Stupid users, even more stupid the engineers to listen to their solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 28 2017, @07:29AM (1 child)
Namespace collision can be worked-around with money. To prevent people squatting on zillions of names for free, you'd start charging money for them. Then those with enough monero/equivalent will own all the best names. And they'll be happy to lease them to others, subject to Terms & Conditions.
End effect, not a big difference for the 0.1%.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday August 28 2017, @10:31AM
Or ask them to mine a pseudo-crypto-coin - say, about 30 minutes GPU or 6 hours CPU.
The ownership of the coin is synonym with the ownership of the domain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford