Not surprising if it's Cambodia, since that's where Fredrik Neij went when people dealt him too much shit in Europe. Source: TBP AFK.
Actually, he went to Thailand and settled down in Laos.
Gottfrid stayed in Cambodia until he was apprehended.
The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake
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Re: The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, let's make internet freedom a joke. But we already have anonymous for that. Edit: The real tragedy is the people excusing NK so they can have their way. I'm not saying they are dumb, just unlucky at thinking. Edit2: No defense of hackivists making a mockery of themselves? How much does TPB make?
> The real tragedy is the people excusing NK so they can have their way. I've read this sentence a few times, left, come back, and re-read it a few times, and I still can't really make heads or tails of it. Are you saying that people doing this (pretending their website is hosted in North Korea) makes light of the suffering of people who live in North Korea? I don't understand how you can conclude that: The whole poi…
>The whole point is that, as bad as North Korea is, it still doesn't go after torrent sites
My assumption was that they'd picked NK as their joke destination because TPB would be seen as a glorious anti-capitalist organisation there, undermining the evil Hollywood fascists. Or maybe I read too much into it...
Re: The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you can basically start telling the internet "I AM THIS IP" and eventually the internet will go "YOU ARE THIS IP" ?
In theory, yes. In reality, most ISPs (that I've dealt with, anyway) do prefix filtering to prevent just this sort of thing.
What is prefix filtering?
Re: The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very true, but where is the core? I've setup many BGP peering sessions, and yes all of those direct edge connections into tier 1 providers is generally filtering prefixes longer than /24. These are where the big propagation problems happen. Whoops, I just advertised my internal network (including a bunch of /31 and /32s) to the Internet either clobbering route tables (capacity problem) or stomping routes. This is why…
It's not hard to "do things right". We filter our customers advertisements to us (requiring them to register their routes in a routing registry and then manually verifying them before allowing the prefixes to be accepted) as well as filtering what we advertise upstream (and our upstream performs filtering on our advertisements as well). If you advertise /31s and /32s, well, you shouldn't be redistributing into BGP an…
But how much of your transit providers or non-customer peers do you trust ?
Re: The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
In theory, yes. In reality, most ISPs (that I've dealt with, anyway) do prefix filtering to prevent just this sort of thing.
What is prefix filtering?
To tell anybody ‘I AM ISP A’ you will have to connect physically to some ISP C. C will then (hopefully) check you and if you go ‘I AM ISP A’ he’ll ignore you and don’t tell anyone unless you’re really ISP A and he determined you to be this guy.
There are rather obvious limits, however, for example you will likely have to believe your ISP C if he says ‘I AM ISP B NOW, TOO’. If you then connect to another ISP D, and tell him ‘I KNOW ISP B’, D will have to decide whether to trust you (likely if you are a large telecom company) or not (if you just happen to have two 10 MBit/s lines to C and D each).