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Two services that enable users to blog or create online forums have disappeared from the Internet under mysterious circumstances.
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In BurstNet's e-mails to Blogetery...told CNET that executives there terminated service at the direction of a law enforcement agency.
"I can not disclose which agency or why they [ordered the action]," Arcus said. "I can say that this is not a copyright issue." He said he believed BurstNet did not provide Internet service for Ipbfree.com.
"iPBFree is gone forever and it's not possible to retrieve anything," said one of the service's administrators who went by the Twitter handle Connormccarthy. "It wasn't planned. We're exceptionally sorry."
What really has some observers scratching their heads is that it's unclear under what circumstance a law enforcement group could walk in and order an Internet host to boot a customer off the Web without any apparent warning or court order?
"iPBFree is gone forever and it's not possible to retrieve anything," said one of the service's administrators
Originally posted by GhostR1der
Let me guess the 'pedo' word will be used and it'll all be swept under the rug.
• Each of the services host loads of user-generated content.
• Operators at both Blogetery and Ipbfree said they were shut down and aren't coming back.
• Both said they obeyed copyright law.
• In each case, those with knowledge of who ordered the closures or the reasons why said they are legally required not to disclose that information.
"We are limited as to the details we can provide to you," BurstNet wrote to Blogetery's administrator. "Note that this was a critical matter and the only available option to us was to immediately deactivate the server."
As information went digital, steganography changed. Messages could be hidden in the 1s and 0s of electronic files — pictures, audio, video, executables, whatever. The hidden communications could even be slowly dribbled into the torrent of IP traffic. Compression schemes — like JPEG for images or MP3 for audio — introduce errors into the files, making a message even easier to hide. New colors or tones can be subtly added or removed, to cover up for the changes. According to the FBI, the image above contains a hidden map of the Burlington, Vermont, airport.
Both before and after Sept. 11, there were rumors in the media that al-Qaida had begun hiding messages in digital porn. That speculation was never confirmed, as far as I can tell.
Originally posted by dbloch7986
reply to post by Fractured.Facade
"con the government send Harry to encode random "spy" message on website."
Originally posted by dbloch7986
reply to post by Fractured.Facade
yea I thought that was just too convenient. Now the government can just send any tom, dick or Harry to encode some random "spy" message on a website abd shut it down.
The site was shut down after FBI agents informed executives of Burst.net, Blogetery's Web host, late on July 9 that links to al-Qaeda materials were found on Blogetery's servers, according to Joe Marr, chief technology officer for Burst.net.
But Marr said a Burst.net employee erred in telling Blogetery's operator and members of the media that the FBI had ordered it to terminate Blogetery's service. He said Burst.net did that on its own.
Originally posted by SeekerofTruth101
Yeah right.
Just because of few malcontents and harmful elements that would inevitably use ANY platforms to do harm, it is a good idea to shut slowly, insidiously and quietly shut the internet,
Originally posted by Rapacity
The PTB can censor or close the Internet as much as they want but, in the long term, they're pushing surfers into "underground" versions of the Net that are impossible to monitor nevermind police.