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Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by kadoban »

mtnGoat wrote: post #91
MileyCyrax wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought a domain name from a domain squatter who used Epik and there's a 60 day waiting period before I'm allowed to transfer the domain away. Their site is one of the buggiest I've ever used (no, really), so this hack doesn't surprise me at all. Now I'm trying to remember how much personal information I would have given them.

A wait period is reasonably common. I’ve ran into it a well, really annoying. I think it’s a lame ploy to drum up business.

It's an ICANN requirement, it's universal as far as I know.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by quantumwannabe »

lelandfe wrote: post #176
capableweb wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you share something damning instead of referring people to search, as we probably will find different information. As far as I can tell, Epik focused on hosting and DNS management for marginalized/excluded groups on the internet, so naturally they attract a lot of groups. Not sure why that'd be bad though. Things like this also makes me actually like the company more: > Pharmaceutical watchdog website LegitScri…

Remember when a guy murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue? When it was revealed the shooter had posted about it on Gab beforehand, every service powering the social network pulled the plug. Epik was who brought them back online.[0] The hero of hate speech is not exactly a sterling reputation to have. [0] https://www.wired.com/story/how-right-wing-social-media-site...

So you believe that Facebook should be shut down because the Christchurch shooter livestreamed his crime there?

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by markenqualitaet »

Lammy wrote: post #36

>NOTORIOUS "HACKERS ON ESTRADIOL" PRESENT GRAND REVEAL I love how this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "hackers on steroids" piece from 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

I mean technically correct. I think cortisol would have been funnier tho.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by rjzzleep »

Syonyk wrote: post #27
kadoban wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many just regular folks would actually pick Epik? Why?

I intend to for future domain registration. - Register.com is an annoying cesspool of value-add upsells and is extremely expensive in the process, with added cost to not have your personal info attached directly to your domain whois. - GoDaddy, other than the creepy ads, has shown plenty of willingness to remove domains hosting content that they don't like, even if it's legal. - I think Google is a registrar, but I'm…

Maybe take a look at Gandi. GoDaddy has always been a terrible registrar. People used to recommend Namecheap because of that, but I think namecheap has limits on the length of certain records (which may be annoying for dkim).

In general there are a dozen registrars that are better than GoDaddy or Google without having to choose a right wing nutjob with bad security.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by generalizations »

cheeze wrote: post #50
nebula8804 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This 30+ MB torrent file is choking ruTorrent and Deluge clients on my seedbox. Not sure how to fix it. Do you know of some alternative way to process such a large file? I have never seen such a large torrent file like this before.

rtorrent has handled literally _everything_ I've ever thrown at it

It didn't handle this one when I tried it.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by jtvjan »

Redoubts wrote: post #190
Lammy wrote: post #36

>NOTORIOUS "HACKERS ON ESTRADIOL" PRESENT GRAND REVEAL I love how this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "hackers on steroids" piece from 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

Surprised there’s no ascii art of programmer socks.

That's a 2016 meme. Much too recent.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by post_break »

Thorrez wrote: post #62

Lest anyone be confused, this is Epik the web hosting company[1], not Epic Games the videogame company[2], or Epic Systems the healthcare software company[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems

Thanks, I thought it was Epic Systems and was worried about all the healthcare data flowing.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by vmception »

southerntofu wrote: post #121
vmception wrote: post #13

> OFFICIAL ANONYMOUS (not to be confused with 'Anonymous Official' grifters) They should sign an ethereum address to reduce ambiguity (Any crypto asset address is fine, even PGP is good enough for this but PGP had 25 years to make that user friendly and common but failed, and cryptocurrencies made signing software more prevalent and uniform wayyyyy faster)

"PGP" is an algorithm, not an organization or movement, so you can't really say it failed. The algorithm is pretty good, though some implementations are really bad, and most programs who embed it have bad UX. However, there's still some very good programs with good UX making use of PGP (for example delta.chat), and to this day no cryptomoney scam wallet has ever been as useful as PGP has over the years.

"cryptomoney scam wallets" have likely secured many more deals with offline verification signatures over the past 5 years than PGP has over 25 years. no need to conflate that with transactions and value transfer. its just public and private key cryptography and inherits everything that PGP offers.

this algorithm has failed to proliferate outside of thin security conscious niches for an entire generation of internet users, and has been leapfrogged.

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