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One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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Re: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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Post by vacri »

XavierMendel wrote: post #36
krenoten wrote: post #23

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Rootkits exist that survive OS reinstalls. I don't know how prevalent they are, but if you expect a target to try to reinstall their operating system to attempt to purge an infection it is possible to counter this.

Then replace the hard drive? I don't know of any viruses that could hide itself in your case fans so I'm inclined to think that buying a whole new computer is an overreaction.

I was at a security seminar and one of the speakers mentioned a (theoretical?) BIOS virus that copied itself to the NIC when it detected the BIOS was being reflashed, then back again afterwards.

Re: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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Post by mistercow »

DanBC wrote: post #69
XavierMendel wrote: post #36

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Then replace the hard drive? I don't know of any viruses that could hide itself in your case fans so I'm inclined to think that buying a whole new computer is an overreaction.

Proof of concept of rootkit that can survive disk replacement by installing itself to the bios. http://www.geek.com/news/researchers-demonstrate-persistent-... > Researchers at Core Security Technologies demonstrated the techniques at CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver earlier this month, compromising one virtual machine running Windows and another running OpenBSD. The attack relies on modifying the BIOS of…

>Maybe rootkits and malware can infect that?

If you can infect the BIOS, it seems pretty likely. On the other hand, if you can infect the BIOS, why bother?

Re: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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gw wrote: post #70
sliverstorm wrote: post #61

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A litigious culture in which courts and police are heavily relied on to solve disputes. That's what the courts ARE FOR. Are you saying you'd prefer to live in the world where Charlotte flies to Sacramento and calls Hunter out at high noon in a cowboy hat? Because it seems fairly clear the "negotiation" option was a complete non-starter.

Courts don't exist to solve all disputes, surely. One clear indication that this is not an appropriate dispute to solve using men with guns is the fact that she had to rely on awkward legal maneuvers (retroactively registering the photo with the copyright office and sending a DMCA notice) that clearly weren't intended for this. The alternative is not to engage in a different form of violence, but rather to ignore it…

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Re: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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Post by chris_wot »

tesseractive wrote: post #100
chris_wot wrote: post #92

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Many of the photos were photoshopped.

I'm sure that's a great comfort if you're being harassed by people over the photos.

Sorry, didn't mean to say it is any less of an offence.

Re: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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Post by makomk »

gw wrote: post #70
sliverstorm wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A litigious culture in which courts and police are heavily relied on to solve disputes. That's what the courts ARE FOR. Are you saying you'd prefer to live in the world where Charlotte flies to Sacramento and calls Hunter out at high noon in a cowboy hat? Because it seems fairly clear the "negotiation" option was a complete non-starter.

Courts don't exist to solve all disputes, surely. One clear indication that this is not an appropriate dispute to solve using men with guns is the fact that she had to rely on awkward legal maneuvers (retroactively registering the photo with the copyright office and sending a DMCA notice) that clearly weren't intended for this. The alternative is not to engage in a different form of violence, but rather to ignore it…

The reason she had to rely on awkward legal maneuvers involving the DMCA is that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives websites like this one pretty broad immunity from legal action over everything except copyright infringement and federal criminal offences. Basically, she had to resort to a copyright infringement lawsuit because copyright holders are the only group with more lobbying power than online service providers.

The courts have apparently interpreted it broadly enough to bar people from getting an injunction requiring the site to take down the offending content when they would otherwise have a basis for doing so. There's a whole bunch of entirely legal online extortion businesses built on this simple fact; the most prominent lawyer fighting these revenge porn sites - Marc Randazza, who advised her - is actually doing so on behalf of one of them and so has incentive to preserve Section 230 of the CDA.

Re: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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Post by rodgerd »

meepmorp wrote: post #47
fallingOff wrote: post #37

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In all seriousness, I look forward to a world with assassination markets every time I read a story like this.

Yes, murder is the correct solution to situations that make you mad. This cannot fail to go well for absolutely everyone.

"An armed society is a polite society." Not wisdom I personally agree with, but I'm kind of surprised to see HN dissent from the ideals of one of the patron saints of American libertarianism!

Re: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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Post by ebiester »

chris_wot wrote: post #92
ebiester wrote: post #79

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...and if you are fired because someone sees your naked photo? If someone comes up to you in a store and says, "I've seen you naked?" Both of these were examples of the harassment women go through regularly after an event like this.

Many of the photos were photoshopped.

Yes, but I'm not a fan of the innocent/'guilty' dynamic here. No woman deserves that, whether or not the photo in question has been photoshopped.

Re: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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Post by yarou »

Iku-Nuku-117G wrote: post #101
michaelochurch wrote: post #84

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Immaturity (in the aggregate) is an outgrowth and cause of cultural degradation, which is more of a problem in the US than in European countries in which, yes, people tend (on average) to be more socially balanced and adult. Religious conservatism is one expression of an immature mindset (an imaginary friend who rains buttfire on your ideological enemies by the millions). Hunter Moore does not appear religious, but s…

This would be the same Europe where millions of people were murdered by their own governments within living memory, that had a functioning Fascist state (a real one) until 1975 and Communist slave states up until 1989, and that has has active "ethnic cleansing" going on right now ? That Europe? Just checking.

Clearly this is a troll account since it was created one hour ago. But I'll take the bait and respond anyway. Yes, the same Europe where millions of people were murdered by their own governments. What about the ethnic cleansing that the US did in Latin America during the 80s? Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Re: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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Post by krapp »

rodgerd wrote: post #117
meepmorp wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, murder is the correct solution to situations that make you mad. This cannot fail to go well for absolutely everyone.

"An armed society is a polite society." Not wisdom I personally agree with, but I'm kind of surprised to see HN dissent from the ideals of one of the patron saints of American libertarianism!

Well then libertarians should stop complaining about the militarization of our police forces, since they're clearly just fighting kindness with kindness.
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