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Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

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Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

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I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".

Bos means a forest, likely nothing to do with his name

just google the company names, atleast one yields name of 'ceo'...

Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bos means a forest, likely nothing to do with his name

It costs 2.50 to check the names of the owners of these companies at the chamber of commerce if that makes you doubt whether or not it's actually the name. This means that the owners were effectively outed by the publication anyway.

it costs google query.

Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

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I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".

Possibly the newspaper didn't even notice at first, though the abbreviation of the name is usual (and mandatory) in Europe.

Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

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post #23

I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".

Possibly the newspaper didn't even notice at first, though the abbreviation of the name is usual (and mandatory) in Europe.

It is NOT mandatory. This is courtesy of the press but there are no laws or regulations.

Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Possibly the newspaper didn't even notice at first, though the abbreviation of the name is usual (and mandatory) in Europe.

It is NOT mandatory. This is courtesy of the press but there are no laws or regulations.

It's mandatory if the newspaper want to continue being a respected newspaper. So for all intents and purposes it's mandatory.

Re: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kill switch? Maybe just LUKS with dropbear. Then: # cryptsetup luksRemoveKey /dev/mapper/foo

Check your local laws on cryptography and destruction of evidence before trying this. You may still be legally obliged to decrypt the material or go to jail.

True. Last I read, that ex cop is still locked up in Philadelphia, for contempt. They don't believe that he forgot his passphrase.

But parent was talking about hosting servers for a client. If the client executed that command, I don't see how the provider could be responsible.

The client could be. But they'd need to extradite him, from Russia, which might not be so easy, these days.

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