torrentfreak.com — Yesterday we reported that the bail date for OiNK administrator Alan Ellis and the six arrested OiNK uploaders was extended again. New information, however, now shows that two of the six uploaders were released from further investigation and can get on with their lives.
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Closed AccountJul 30, 2008
sounds like a good job to apply for, these pseudo police investigators. anyone know how i would go about joining these people, I'm in england.
reverendrodgerJul 30, 2008
Is it just me or is that a ridiculous amount of time to spend in jail over a bunch of 1s and 0s that didn't harm anyone?
sihingJul 30, 2008
Yeah, something about that sounds pretty fishy. I highly doubt an entire database of users is loaded into something so volatile. I could see the database being encrypted on the drive though with like a 256 bit encryption or higher etc.Other than that though... I'm not networking guru or anything. But I've never heard of IP spoofing under an ISP unless you're going through a proxy. The thing is you can spoof your MAC address no problem, but you'll still have the same IP address your ISP leased to you via DHCP.. and that RARELY changes. I know in DDoS attacks you spoof IP's to overload a server with three way handshakes etc. but I've never heard of masking your IP on the header of packets incoming and outgoing... how would the packets know to navigate to YOUR computer? It's not like it's NAT protocol or anything... If you have anything to enlighten me with, please do. Send me a shout or something.
anachronautJul 30, 2008
That's a very valid point and it's a shame that you're being dugg down for stating it. Let's hope that doesn't turn out to be the case, though.
angelbunnyJul 31, 2008
hosted on sdram for 1) speed related issues and 2) for security. if there is a server raid, like what happened, then the user DB is lost.of course, there are backups, but they are in other locations, and are hidden. I doubt any gov agency obtained them. OiNK actually said something about the user DB being gone so it sounds like someone close to him heard the news and deleted the DB himself. also, there usually is a custom shutdown command that copies the DB to the HDD then shuts down, reboots, and loads it right backup. This command is only known to the admin though, so if they try to shut the computers down and not just pull the plug, the DB will not be saved. It is convenient if a reboot or something is needed, but not convenient if the server crashes. This is why when that happens most higher end private torrent sites take a couple of days to get it back up and running. Also, the database server is separate from the web site hosting server and there usually is a 3rd squid server on bigger sites.I don't know OiNK or anything so what I am saying is obviously speculation, but I have worked closely with staff on higher end private bt sites in the past, so I know the routine generally quite well.