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Episode: 751
Title: HPR0751: Binary Evolutions
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0751/hpr0751.mp3
Transcribed: 2025-10-08 01:54:38

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And welcome to binary evolution radio. I'll be one of your hosts in this online
adventures through the internet as we set sail for discovery.
And with me today, I've got Downer.
Wow, man. Now, the last time some of these people may have heard from you was an
episode of HPR on BBSs, but today we've decided to go a little different route.
You want to talk to them a little bit about what we have in mind for this show
and what we're attempting to accomplish. Well, I'm not honestly completely sure
myself, but um, politics, I think we're going to add on. This is um, it's an
interesting thing we're going into with the today, the whole digital culture
with hacking going on now. You know, you said it best retweeting with that
2600 tweet there. We're going back to the 90. And we'll get in, I think we'll
bring that up right before we do the crossover into what's going to probably
be our main topic for the night. Now part of what I think we were also
wanting to accomplish is one of the shows that we both enjoyed was binary
revolution radio. And unfortunately that show ended its run a long time ago.
So they had the idea of that the revolution would be digitized. And it has.
The revolution has been digitized, but now it's time for it to evolve.
And that's where we come in binary evolution radio.
They avoided a lot of politics for the most part. And I'm not saying we're
going to be, you know, wall to wall politics, but we're not going to be afraid to
step into it when we think it's appropriate. Now take it all as this is our
opinions. Unless we have someone who has far more facts about it than us, this
is opinion. I think that's basically safe to say. Now one of the interesting
things that's been popping up in the news recently has been sites being
iced, you know, basically a chilling effect as the, what is the name of that?
Immigration's customs enforcement has been seizing domains. But before we go
there, we actually wanted to step back to an older news story. This one is
actually from about October 6th of 2010. And I'll let down or introduce the
story, and then we'll go into talking about it before we move forward.
Well, this is actually a story of a woman running an erotic a site who registered
herself under the top level domain of LY from Libya. And it was basically
named illegal by Libyan law. Now this website in particular content of her site.
And it's intent was to be similar to Ali or bit.ly any of those domain
shortners. And one of the things they said about this site was, you know, sex
positive. And the website itself had a picture when you went there to, you
know, shorten your URL had a picture of the woman in question, Violet Blue,
with her arms bare holding a bottle of beer. That's all it's it. You know,
it said, I unfortunately can't read the picture because it's a little small.
But, you know, it's just a URL shortener. And, you know, just said, you know,
sex positive on it. Didn't really, you know, have any content of its own
per se, it just, you know, linked other sites.
I'll tell you something. She's actually kind of hot. So it's not like she's
like, as far as opinion goes, it wasn't like she was unattractive.
And the interesting thing about small picture, you know, why it was seized was,
it was seized not because it, you know, violated anything that the
Nick.ly domains face said. But because the websites, you know, supposedly
violated Libyan, you know, Islamic and Sharia law, because it had a picture
of, yes, and beer as a bare arm positive. Now, things that make this story a little
more interesting is that since June of 2010, you know, shortly after the seizure
happened, Libya blocked anyone who was not a Libyan from buying a four-character
domain name. That's, well, they're within their rights. I mean, we got C.A.'s
last I knew you could still only be bought by a Canadian citizen.
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the things like we've discussed on another, on
another account. A lot of these file sharing websites are going the route of,
of buying an SU, for instance, because a Soviet Union, technically by non-existence
at this point in time, there's nobody to really, I don't know what we, what
would you call that? You can't extradite a domain from that, in that sense.
Yeah, that, you know, you can't like subpoena that domain, it states so they can ownership of it.
But by the non-existence of the Soviet Union in the first place, they can't
really talk to anybody to get that. I believe so that would make it, just a little
more red tape you've got to jump through and the Russians have a little more of a
whatever, let them do what they're doing for the most part. But with all that said,
now we come into, you know, our first kind of current news story here, which
downer digged up for us. And its streaming site rolls out lawyers to fight
domain seizure. Why don't you talk about this one a little bit downer?
Well, they were actually the interesting thing that I thought it was connected to
sports streaming. And there's loads of other sites out there that could have
been technically considered more of a piracy sort of deal, but they basically
got iced for sharing video. I guess on an unauthorized sort of level, engaging
an unlawful, an lawful act not prohibited by copyright law. So that is kind of
piracy.
Person who is filing against this icing claims is that it had an index of links to
streams of sporting events that they didn't actually have the streams themselves.
You know, this is something we've seen before with, you know, torrents.
Yeah, it's, you know, getting shut down because, you know, they host the
torrent files, but they don't actually host anything themselves. So, you know,
this is nothing new. I think the newer thing at this point is the icing of them.
I didn't think that this was torrents. I think that they were streaming through them.
I don't think that I think that they were linking some other people that they had
links out to other not that's not specific torrents.
You know, it's kind of interesting.
It is similar.
It's inside the flip side and, you know, the modern time where people are,
you know, other countries are getting their domain seized by, you know,
United States when, you know, we can see there is some history of other
countries seizing American controlled websites.
Or at least their domains for those websites.
Yeah, it's interesting because a lot of people don't really look at,
I don't think that many people really look at the top level domain as a
controlled by this country or that. I think a lot of them look at, like,
even in the case of the Libyan LY, they look at it as this is a smaller domain
that I can use to make a shorter URL.
And I think that's something that I think a lot of people don't realize they're
not under there, but they have to kind of answer to that Libyan law.
They buy an LY.
They're domain name based on how permissive a country is.
So you could see, I could foresee a time in the future where a small
country with large amounts of domain names get a lot of business on domain
namesails because they will give the finger to every other foreign government
as far as, you know, a domain goes.
Yeah, absolutely. It's now like almost like picking your performance
cards for a car in a sense, you're going and you would buy like your
web hosting space literally because this country's laws are specifying certain
limits on what you can and can host.
And then you've got to change your domain.
According to what you're allowed to direct that domain.
Throw something up and the worst you'd have to worry about is, you know,
that they shut your server down, but you still have the domain name.
Now you've got to worry about it on both ends.
And if you disappear off the net, you know, you've got problems.
Especially if you're something that's generating revenue.
I was going to say the whole censorship of the internet as a whole.
Everybody's worried about the censorship here locally.
And I think that this is really bringing it more to the light that we have to worry about at Global.
As long as you don't infringe on what a big business or government says.
But, you know, when you're looking at it from a more global perspective,
it's showing it's not as free as you think and you need to choose carefully.
And consider when you're setting up a website, what you're having on there.
And who might try to shut you down.
And you know, sometimes when your website has been iced,
you should really double check that you haven't been pumped.
And that especially holds true.
If you go to a website and find it has been iced, you might want to double check.
Especially if you're the guy who runs the website.
As in our next story from ours, Technica from June 8th, 2011.
So what's going on here?
Yeah, and this guy, this one downer.
Well, this guy, Lowel Hubs, he found out one day his website was apparently hacked
by someone who deposited 70 gigs of pornographic material on its server.
When he got there, he saw that the domain seizure iced, you know, whole placement page.
And I guess he thought he was seized by the feds.
And you know, he had this whole big rant about, you know, that it was because someone had hacked him,
put the 70 gigs of pornographic material up there.
Now, Lowel's Facts, which was the website, what did he talk about on this website?
The truth about vaccines and modern medicine.
Honestly, I'm looking at it right now and it's quite horrible to look at.
He's talking about just medicines and things like that.
And the interesting thing about this is, when I first read this,
and I can't find the article that I originally had,
but the original that I found via Reddit, I believe,
was actually saying that he did get iced for this.
And you were that you corrected me on that.
So I think he was actually under the impression that he did get iced at first.
That's not what happened.
During the whole hack thing, they had actually gone in through his GoDaddy account from all accounts.
And they just rerouted his DNS server directly to that beautiful banner
where all coming to know and load.
Yeah, that's kind of interesting.
Just keep in mind, when you see a website that's been iced,
what day of year it is?
Is your buddy a practical Joker if it's a friend's website?
Or could the persons of website just been compromised and that they've been pumped?
Yeah, I have to admit, it's kind of funny, but cool at the same time.
I know the badapples.info.
Actually, if you went to that website at one point, had the ice logo up.
And it turned out that the guy who runs that website had actually done it as a joke.
Because the interesting thing was his RSS feeds still worked.
Everything worked behind the scenes just fine.
The cover was just changed.
And I've got a feeling if they ice a site,
you're not going to get anything off the back end from the site,
unless you know their exact IP address.
Just because someone might be blacklisting you for piracy or filtering keywords
that they're still ways around it.
That's right, folks.
The internet does route around trouble.
Unless, of course, the one line into your country has been cut by an Armenian woman looking for copper,
but that's a whole different story.
Yeah, there's this whole Geno Evil add-on for the Google censorship.
Google's been filtering the auto-complete services.
The auto-complete services.
The auto-complete heavily more recently.
People can complain about Google censoring those results all they want.
But you know what?
I could see that coming day one.
Because people like to do some of the weirdest stuff to just cause mayhem and having.
So if Google wants to stop someone from some innocuous search
that a bunch of people have decided to turn into something that is just not appropriate for all ages, so beat.
Well, I was going to make the example of if you search in Google,
my cat is pregnant.
The first suggestion that it gives you is my cat is pregnant.
I think I'm the father.
You can see whether that's just some weird, algorithmic result
or a bunch of people have decided to play having.
Yeah.
But I guess that's where this Geno Evil comes in.
And you can add this in as a fire fax on it until you show you what you want to see,
including things like piracy-related terms such as torrent, bit torrent,
you torrent, rapid-share, media fire was put into the filter recently.
Now is this one a Firefox plugin?
It seems like a pretty good way around it.
It exists for more browsers than that.
As far as I am reading from this whole torrent freak article, it's only for Mozilla.
As a matter of fact, this article actually says that ice asked Mozilla to pull the ad on from their site.
Mozilla denied.
I mean, if they're filtering things out like torrent, I don't think it's very fair
because now if I go and type Linux T, I don't get Linux torrents.
And this is a very viable solution.
I mean, I downloaded backtrack via torrents.
And it was much faster than downloading it from their site.
You know, ISO being released without a torrent is just a weird thing.
You know, every major release uses one.
Day one, it is the best approach for downloading.
Absolutely.
I mean, I fully believe in the torrents and things like that.
But I don't think it's fair that anybody's going to tell me I can't use it.
Or filter my content and tell me to, you know, push me away from it altogether.
And the Geno Evil sounds like a pretty good deal.
I don't know that it is available for Chrome.
Is you may want to use something like Tor, which there are browser plugins.
There used to be a browser release called Tor Park for windows available,
which took Firefox and integrated Tor directly into it.
Which, you know what, if the next 32 people had been using Tor Park,
maybe they'd been in a better situation.
I'll let you cover this story downer.
Yeah, Turkey arrests 32 anonymous members.
They claim they executed DDoS attacks, which is pretty much what anonymous does.
This was in a response to a hacking of the web, the Turkey's directorate of telecommunications website.
Anonymous took that website down as a protest to censorship of the internet.
And, you know, so, you know, consider taking methods to just make it harder for people to see what you're doing.
Whether it's, you know, the anonymous script kitty sitting in the same coffee shop as you,
from seeing everything you're posting and every email you're sending,
to stopping the government from being easy to see you.
You know, make them work for it at least.
Make them do their jobs.
I think part of the problem with the anonymous group, as you want, if you want to call it.
I mean, I don't think that everyone can be trusted.
But they've all got a common interest.
You know, randomly firing, low-orboring Ion cannons that whatever subject has annoyed them this week,
to when you find the cream of the crop out of that group,
and they decide to do it all for the lulls.
That is right, lulls sack.
I mean, these, the lulls sack guys is one of the most interesting thing I've seen out of,
you know, hacking groups in years.
They honestly do appear to be doing it all for the lulls.
You know, there was the story and see if I can find it real quick,
where they took down some website that had a bounty up and they turned down the money.
Or you could look at this one and go, well, why would they turn down $10,000 cash?
How do you claim a $10,000 bounty and not give up who you are easily?
It's not an easy thing this day and age.
The money could have been really useful to them and could have provided them a great big party to have a lot of lulls.
You know, at the same time, there is a risk in taking that money.
It's almost easier to, it's easier to run out of money transferring around.
Then it is to track movement across the internet.
And these lulls sack guys are showing a level of balls that I haven't seen out of any hacking group in years, if ever.
Their ballsiness even shows through with their new voicemail release.
And you can actually, what I'm being told is, you can call it and actually reach a few of the lulls sack members,
François Deluxe and Pierre Dubois.
And you can actually speak with them on some occasions, I believe.
But, you know, also, they also say they had over 3,500 plus missed calls today and over 1,500 plus voicemails.
And they had not heard that.
Just to elaborate, I think some people are trying to say, don't tie these guys in with anonymous.
Don't say that they're the same guys, that they're the same group.
Remember, they have anything to do with each other because they're going after it for the lulls.
But I don't believe that's the case.
I think that they are actually, you know, one of the cells for lack of a better term of anonymous that are trying to get more notoriety for themselves and to be taken more seriously as an aggressive group.
So another thing that's interesting here is, you know, lulls sack is, we're assuming using a lot of tools to hide who they are.
They aren't going directly after anything off of a machine.
I mean, you don't hack a bank across state lines.
That was low.
Yes, it was.
But they're using a web security startup Cloudflare that has actually gotten a lot of buzz because lulls sack is using them.
Yeah, this Cloudflare is, it essentially looks like just a DDoS protection of some sort.
You know, when you're using the internet, it's going to take the fastest routes if it's not routing properly or for whatever reason your website can't be displayed in the most efficient way possible.
Cloudflare takes over and reproduces your web page in that instance, letting you browse the web.
It acts like a CDN, caching a website and going from there.
Now, the interesting thing here is they have a free version for websites that want performance and security taking care of for them and then they have plans going up from there.
So that's really interesting seeing, you know, a CDN having a free option and this group anonymous using them.
And, you know, again, we'll go back to a much earlier topic in all of this.
Does Cloudflare.com have to worry about having their entire operation iced because they're letting a group like lulls sack use their system?
It's a very good question.
Looks like from where ice stand, it looks like ice as an entity has no boundaries.
They really do attack from all angles.
I would like to see this service take off though.
It's especially considering they have, you know, a free option for, you know, guys like me and you could use instead of having to pay a large sum per CDN, you know, some CDN system.
Yeah, absolutely.
And lulls sack definitely made use of it because one of the first times I went to the site, it was actually telling me that yes, this is being displayed by Cloudflare.
I believe when it displays on the free end, it shows advertisements.
At least it says their name on the site.
I don't know about that.
At least.
I think when it's free, it might have an ad.
I'm not certain.
I don't remember going to it now.
I'd never really like took notice to it 100%.
But it was interesting.
I was more interested in the name and the service than I was the advertisement if there was one.
But I do remember a good bar across the top telling me, hey, this is not the original website right now.
Yeah, which is, you know, great way to put your name out there, which, you know, again, this could bring up interesting concepts of what lulls sack tie with Cloudflare is.
If Cloudflare isn't announcing who any of their, and again, folks, this is wild speculation and complete conjuncture.
Don't take it for being worth anything.
But, you know, it brings up an interesting idea that Cloudflare, you know, unless we could nail down that they had some other customers out there, which I would assume they do.
You know, what if, you know, just on a wild, bizarre tangent of speculation, what if, you know, lulls sack was nothing more than a PR stunt for Cloudflare?
I don't know.
That wild speculation that is.
Yeah.
But we found, I just found some testimonials.
That could be pushing it, but definitely getting their name out there.
Yeah.
I mean, a lot more than, you know, some of these little other sites they seem to have up.
Yeah.
This is just awesome.
I mean, in the end, I think we should probably move to wrap it up, but we will say, I will definitely say lulls sack is definitely a hilarious stunt.
I'm definitely amused, but I am worried for what they're going to do to internet censorship and everybody who's so trigger happy on that subject.
Yeah.
You're definitely right.
There's a lot of ramifications we have to worry about with what lulls sack is doing.
Yeah.
I don't know how much they're setting us back here.
You know, hopefully it won't cause us a lot of pain in the long run.
But in another note, it's not just our own local internet censorship that we have to worry about, you know.
Libby is out there too.
We're definitely seeing that the problems that, you know, a lot of the American community has talked about for years is becoming a global issue.
So in the end, folks, you know, pay attention to what you're doing, who you're using, how you're using it, before thinking in what you're doing, basically.
Yeah.
Definitely.
It's getting awfully wild out there and bringing it back to the whole lulls sack thing.
This is definitely the 1990s all over again.
Hacker groups making news and I will read the tweet exactly from 2600 from the twitter.com slash
pound bang slash 2600.
It was hacked websites corporate infiltration and scandal IRC wars, new hacker groups making global headlines.
The 1990s are back.
I don't have the perfect note to lead on.
All right.
And we will talk to you later.
See ya.
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