MediaDefender Phone Call and Gnutella Tracking Database Leaked
Written by Ernesto on September 16, 2007The leak of MediaDefender’s emails caused quite some controversy, Ironically, in a recently leaked phone call, a New York attorney and MediaDefender discuss the security of their email-server. Whilst there is some initial confusion as to where the leak may have originated, they eventually write it off as some technical problem.
The leaked phone call shows that they are unsure about their network protection, their IDS etc. One of the parties is on a VOIP connection which may explain how the leak was obtained.
Similar to the e-mail leak, a group called “MediaDefender-Defenders” released the file, and in the .nfo file we read:
MediaDefender-Defenders proudly presents some more internal MediaDefender stuff… more will follow when time is ready. MediaDefender thinks they’ve shut out their internals from us. Thats what they think.
The subject of the call is rather serious. MediaDefender is apparently involved in an ongoing Child Porn investigation. Their job is to identify child-porn images and report the IPs of the offending computers back to the government. A tricky project since it would mean that they actually have to download and rate the illegal content.
This wont be the end of the leaks according to the “MediaDefender-Defenders”, they claim that more will follow when time is ready.
In addition the the phone call, a huge MySQL database dump from a MediaDefender server was leaked on BitTorrent as well. The database shows tracking and decoy file information for the Gnutella network which is used by P2P clients such as LimeWire.
All this leaked information is a huge blow for MediaDefender, and it will undoubtedly cost them a lot of time and money to clean this up. Interestingly, no evidence can be found that MediaDefender is actually involved in prosecuting or gathering evidence against filesharers (as we reported earlier). Their core business is releasing fake files and polluting the filesharing networks.
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ah thanks :)
BTW.. there were no SSN in the emails
I checked them
So they’re all making it up. Oh…did you check the attachments?
[quote comment="166942"]So they’re all making it up. Oh…did you check the attachments?[/quote]
Nice checking, elf.
Perhaps the real aim is to throw mud and link, in the public’s mind and the press, child porn to P2P use/users?
a private company, as shady as MD handling CP.. just sick, completely sick.. i cant count on one hand how many countries their ways of working is criminal..
Now why would someone from Universal Music be interested in child porn on newsgroups.
yes
From: Randy Saaf [mailto:randy@mediadefender.com]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 5:06 PM
To: Benjamin, David
Cc: Ben Grodsky; Jay Mairs
Subject: FW: newsgroups
David:
There looks like there is a fair amount. Is this a play at ISP liability?
R
From: Ben Grodsky
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 1:04 PM
To: Randy Saaf; leaks
Cc: Jay Mairs
Subject: RE: newsgroups
yes. loads of it. and loads of other illegal type content that David might also be wondering about.
From: Randy Saaf
Sent: Mon 11-Jun-07 12:57
To: leaks
Cc: Jay Mairs
Subject: Fw: newsgroups
Without downloading, can anyone tell me if there is kiddie porn on news groups?
—– Original Message —–
From: Benjamin, David
To: Randy Saaf; Octavio Herrera
Sent: Mon Jun 11 12:42:39 2007
Subject: newsgroups
is there kiddie porn on newsgroups
@2600
So do you think that this label guy is now happy that he and the MD guys can watch all the CP legally since the NY AG allowed MD to downlaod al the sick shit for them?
Thats disgusting that these non lawenforcement guys can now watch this shit legally.
As I asked; Can’t the authorites in California bust MD for willfully downloading and viewing all this shit?
I mean if I were a pedophile pervert, thats the best thing i would want to archive, Get a (stupid?) AG in NY to allow me to download all the shit for them, view it, have my perverted fun with the stuff and probably even get payed with NY taxpayers money for this perverted shit.
Has the AG background checked MD and their staff if there aren’t working any known sexoffenders in that company?
They are interested in kiddy porn, for marketing reasons.
People HATE pedo’s so it’s good for their immage.
But they do not realize, that takeing existing kiddy pron offline will make it scarce, which will result in higher prices, and make people rape more children for the money.
If they would REALLY care, they would try and find the producers of the kiddy pron, instead of the people of share it for free.
Hahaha. This is so awesome.
It’s like being in some mid 90s hacker movie.
Too bad these guys are just a bunch of bumbling idiots.
I want to see some leaked RIAA e-mails.
This is just awesome, and from reading the transcript, that “interferance” they experienced was probably the guy recording the phone call trying to hold back the laughter.
I’m sure that no state would be dumb enough to actually hand off licenses to companys so they can freely browse child porn and report back on it, could they?… Just seems very sketchy to me.
And I can’t wait for the next batch of releases, hell I’d love to see the emails and phone calls from today when mr.shit, meets mr.fan ^^
This is just terrific lol …
Now go and drown in your shite little scumbags!!
Props to the ones behind the leak, respect!
I think that the “leaked phone call” is fake, since they are useing it for “repairing” the damage done to the name MediaDefender. And their bizz, in general.
It’s just their respons to the leaked mails.
Well, I don’t think so. I don’t see how the phone call would “repair” any damage done. Especially since they (MD) get wobbly every time the AGs office goes into technical details (best part when MD pulls the “I can’t hear you” stunt). They don’t seem to be very competent.
Well well Media Defender got Pwn3D Again…
I still would love to hear the files these interdicters are creating. Plus it would be nice for the artists to maybe hear what has been done to their so called music. If the files we’re made publicly available, the actions of these organizations might be more highly questioned. I’ve been hosting them since 2003: http://noneinc.com/RIAAEM/RIAABlog.html
Always wanting to hear more.
lol @ MD. they are a a bunch of amateurs.
and wow.. some people feel sympathy for MD because they are removing child porn.
they are tracking child porn because they are PAID to do it, not becasue they WANTED to. anyone would gladly take on that job is you pay them. i bet MD would even suck dick if you pay them enough.
it is the govtments job do remove kiddie porn, they have more resources and authority to do it. and they have more competence .
The email entitled “Flowchart” sent from Ben Grodsky to Michael McCartney seems to indicate it is a CP investigation.
The diagram shows MD collects data on searches and sends it to the AGs office where it is downloaded by them.
Two parts are labelled “NY CP Downloader” and “CP DB”.
Slightly worrying is this, in an email sent from Bradley Bartram to Jay@MD:
[quote]On your end, the peer-to-peer crawler will be identifying files matching the established search criteria from various hosts. This data will then be collected, filtered for New York resident ip addresses (to the accuracy limits imposed by geo-query tech). The data will then be transferred to us[/quote]
Even though the MD crawler will be looking for CP across the whole network, they are only interested in the results for NY residents.
The least they could do is hand off any results not related to NY residents to the relevant agencies, but I guess MD want to hang on to that info till they can make more money from it.
Some script-kiddie (Jay Mairs?) just tried to flood the shit out of MDD’s irc channel with links to MD’s site and shit. To no avail. :)
“no evidence can be found that MediaDefender is actually involved in prosecuting or gathering evidence against filesharers”
In the mailcollection I came across a mail to Paramount containing 4 ip’s with location data, reporting them as sharers of some movie. I think all four where in the USA.
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