The .torrent files are not their content, and tracking them has nothing to do with the content either. If they have a problem with people infringing, go after the peers themselves which each transfer a very small fragment of the content itself.

Creating .torrent files, distributing and tracking is not a copyright violation; unless your country accepts the dubious concept of “facilitate”.

Someone must put a stop to the lies that go in these corrupt courts; exploiting the absolute ignorance of the people involved.

If they had a warrant to search and collect, that’s fine. But THEY search and THEY collect. You don’t log in and give them data. That’s THEIR responsibility.

Also like a lot of other posters said, GET A NUKE SCRIPT FOR THE SITE. Set up a complexly-named email account and have a short cut to email “BURN IT ALL” to that email address and voila! When they tell you to log in, there’s nothing there.

You’re right! All it takes is to compute a (rainbow?) map of all IP addresses to the hashes, and later lookup up the IP(s) in reverse. Should be doable with today’s computers.

That’s why one would usually combine the IP addresses with a secret key k, before hashing the pair (IP,k). Reversing this is not possible without knowing k.

I doubt it will work, might destroy the external electronics but the microwaves will probably not penetrate the metal case and leave the disk surfaces intact.

Don’t know if anyone who would have the time and the right tools ready to screw open the harddisk fast enough, break the disks into pieces (laptop disk) or taking out the disks themselves in one piece (which takes ages) and put it in the microwave oven. One might try to put in an opened harddisk but it might not wipe the bottom surfaces if it works at all.

If anyone has any proof that it actually works i would like to know.

all the best anysways dude,

“you do not have permission to enter”
is all needs be said and as that one poster said htey have to get the proper people and in fact one hting you forgot that usually is needed is the reason aka a warrant

which is why warrant less search and seizure laws are extremely dangerous .

I could if i were in govt and you made me look bad just send over the cops and take your stuff with little to no oversight

think Canada is immune to stupidity though

here ya go guys somehting they want to make a terrorist act.

throwing a pie…..
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2010/01/26/nl-byrne-terrorism-012610.html

As for his home computer, he voluntarily logged into the site for them. Truecrypt wouldn’t do anything about that. From the sounds of it most of the damage was done from screenshots of stuff online, not on his personal machine.

Anyway if you pull the killswitch routine, especially after all the evidence they’ve gathered, it just assures the judge/jury of your guilt. It’s like if you kill someone then flee the country… sure maybe you aren’t around to question anymore but most people are going to assume you were the murderer.

The best solution is really VPNs and proxies out the ass so it’s a complete pain to sift through it all to your real IP. Donations are always a problem since most bank accounts are going to want your real info, but I’m sure there are some less scrupulous companies if you look hard enough.

Have the donators been informed as required under Danish & EU law that their data has been obtained and is being processed by this anti consumer group and its lawyers ? I dont think so and thus they seem to have created the ground for a mistrial as illegally gathered or processed evidence is not acceptable to a court. What would be helpful to know here is just what scope the warrant gave. There is a massive difference between simple entry and illegal aquisition of data, once a data breach such as this has occured it would be prudent to inform the data protection commisioner and seek his aid in securing the privacy of those whose data has been obtained possibly outside the scope of a court order.

The law can be your friend too if you use it correctly.

The F*ck?

@ Story

Idiot admin is idiot.

@ story

idiot admin is idiot

Site is based on creating a file sharing hub for all users to upload stuff. No user is ever punished or kicked out for uploading illegal stuff that they do not own. More or less their is loopholes in the laws so he may get free but it could take him a year or more to do so.

There are only 2^32 possible IPs. I don’t see how this would help. Reversing the hashing would be trivial.

Anyway, like @15(Dia) said, this raid was very sensible indeed, unlike ANY other I’ve heard about, with no confiscation whatsoever (probably due to the fact they shouldn’t be able to even step in, in the first place.

I think the he won’t be liable for shit. Let’s hope for the best.

It’s not like elitebits admin didnt know what was going on his tracker.
Lets skip this part ? it’s ridiculous.

I do very much agree that the Admin should have had secured his computer.
This is an outrage.

but a.) (as i posted before) there is no law that you have to support the police .. you don’t even have to open the door (but they can do that themselfe by force so you probably want to open the door ;) )
b.) you don’t have to login, boot, show them anything on your computer, of course they will seize your computer BUT with a decent encryption they will fail to read any data from your harddisk but as i said before there is nothing they can do about that so encryption wuhu
c.) admins shouldn have warez somewhere except on encrypted hdds :)
d.) you are allowed to leave, or use your phone .. call a laywer damnit those peope can do anything if you say “yes” or do nothing .. just say hey i gotta go .. they can’t force you to stay and watch (unless they arrest you)
please .. some people that call themselfe admins are bloody kids who are intimidated as soon as some dude says legal bla and has a nice suite and shiny papers

by law you are not forced to actually help the police raiding your home/work etc they all have to do it on their own !

Naked airport scanner catches cellphone, misses bomb components

They told us that we have to go through this thing because terrorist could potentially get on planes with ex plosives in their underwear. They tried to launch this thing before but many people didn’t like the privacy aspect to it. They figured that if they have a reason to justify it (set up detroit case) they could push it out as justification. I for one will not take it. So set people up (prob this story too) to push laws to punish the masses as scare tactics. People are not as dumb as you all think. On yeah those airport scanners can see a full color nu de photo of you which is easily stored and can be sent/received. So much for privacy.

n his judgment, Judge Hetherington accepted JFL was no threat to national security and noted his outsider lifestyle. “You… wished to involve yourself in a world which was largely based upon the access to the internet and using computers and not really interacting with other people in the ordinary outside world to any great extent,” he said.

“It is said on your behalf that you lead an existence rather akin to that of a monk, and that there is nothing sinister in any of this but it is essentially private matters and you do not see why you should have to disclose anything to the authorities.”

During sentencing, the judge seemingly confirmed that NTAC staff had been unsuccessful in their attempts to crack the encrypted files – or had not bothered trying. “To this day no one really has any idea as to what is contained in that equipment,” he said. One file encrypted using software from the German firm Steganos was cracked, but investigators found only another PGP container.

“We needed to take powers so that we could de-encrypt commercially encrypted e-mails and other communications. Why? Because we knew that terrorists were going to use this.”

Ah set up just like the terrorist the cia and fbi train and set up. What about those airplain nu de scanners . Oh yeah Al Quieda is c i a and his new message is c i a & so basically gov’t is saying just tell us. f k u No fkn way get your own shi t.

I actually solute this guy in 71′s article for never giving away his keys althogh he was a dumb a ss for having all that stuff around he got cought with. Like I said, smells of a set up.

EliteBits.org isn’t even that popular. It has an Alexa traffic rank of less than 100,000.

Wasted time. Wasted effort.

that’s why you use TrueCrypt. It let’s you create an encrypted OS INSIDE another encrypted OS.

They will THINK you decrypted for them when in fact the ACTUAL stuff is hidden somewhere entirely different.

Depending on what password you use, the bootloader decides which OS to boot in.

Plausible deniability = Failsafe

Also, I kind of tend to agree with RM’s comment about accepting donations effectively painting a target on one’s self for anti-piracy groups. I do think it’s a stretch to say he was profiting from piracy, especially if the donations only covered the costs of running the tracker.

Now, I must take a dump.

In the UK for example, not turning over encryption keys can land you FIVE years in jail. However, goons and lawyers can’t just turn up, they need a warrant which can only be served by a police officer or you are within your rights to refuse entry. Bailiffs are different, some CAN enter your house with a court order, so maybe in Denmark things are different again.

True the site owner should have made things a LOT more difficult, encrypted VPN, encrypted servers, fake accounts etc.