Federal officials take down 132 websites in 'Cyber Monday' crackdown • Hacker News Board

Re: Federal officials take down 132 websites in 'Cyber Monday' crackdown

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Post by rsingel » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 12:45 AM UTC

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #24

hughesey wrote: post #16

Once seized, they generally point them at the server at 74.81.170.110 which hosts their seized image. Thus using a simple reverse IP lookup we can see a list of all seized domains: http://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=74.81.170.110

wow that's pretty cool. Looks like everything from that list was in November. Also looks like the majority of the sites were selling prescription drugs.

those dates do not reflect when a site was initially seized. For instance, Filespump.com was seized in 2012 and lulzsec.com was seized in March. Both say November according to this list.

Re: Federal officials take down 132 websites in 'Cyber Monday' crackdown

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Post by jlgreco » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 4:20 AM UTC

enraged_camel wrote: post #28

jlgreco wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They know full well that these take-downs are nothing but token gestures. That means two things: 1) theatrics are emphasized. Taking them all down at once is more theatrical. 2) If they take down sites weeks before a major shopping holiday, they will be back well before the holiday hits. They are doing the equivalent of spritzing febreeze around the apartment right before people come over to visit.

I'm not sure how valid your argument is. Christmas is almost a month away, and that's plenty of time for these websites to spring back up.

Well I suspect the idea is most people buy things before Christmas, not during. The perception seems to be that the single largest online shopping day in the "before Christmas" season is this "Cyber Monday".

Maybe the most active shopping day is the second Tuesday of December, or something else relatively obscure, but since theatrics are valued it would still make sense to hit on the day most people think of as "the big day".

Re: Federal officials take down 132 websites in 'Cyber Monday' crackdown

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Post by hughesey » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 11:50 AM UTC

rsingel wrote: post #31

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow that's pretty cool. Looks like everything from that list was in November. Also looks like the majority of the sites were selling prescription drugs.

those dates do not reflect when a site was initially seized. For instance, Filespump.com was seized in 2012 and lulzsec.com was seized in March. Both say November according to this list.

Dates are when the domain was last checked by the site.