Platonides wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Some remote loaders use a rotating open proxy
list, for example
tramadol.tfres.net (warning, site contains some nasty javascript).
2002 popups
blocked :O
This makes them slow, but apparently fast enough
for the search engines to
index them. What can we do about that, besides DoS the website?
Make an script doing a special request to autoblock it. Run it
daily/hourly. They *can't* update their proxy list as fast as a bot
requesting pages. You can even use their proxy list to avoid them
filtering the server ip.
That's all very well, until they use a proxy that we don't want to block.
It's been our policy so far to block anonymous editing from open proxies
and p2p anonymity networks, but to allow page views. If they were blocked
at the squid level, neither would be possible.
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
At some point a layer-8 approach becomes the most
reasonable, although
technical folks tend to shy away from interactions outside of their
domain of expertise. ;)
Their money apparently comes from an affiliate scheme with DriveCleaner,
which apparently is a scam where the "free version" of a purported
spyware/virus checker reports a threat, and recommends that the user buy
the "full version" of the software in order to remove it. It's been known
to Symantec since June 2006, and what have the authorities done in that
time to stop it? You can still go to
drivecleaner.com and pick up a copy.
There's a lack of international coordination, a lack of political will and
a lack of funding.
And if they can't stop a blatant scam, defrauding people of money every
day, so what makes you think they could be bothered to stop a borderline
abuse of service?
As for vigilante action, we know from anti-spam activities that a
technical attack could well be met by with revenge in kind, and we know
that we could easily find ourselves outgunned. I don't really want to
spend my time dealing with multi-gigabit DDoS attacks against Wikipedia
once every week or two.
Civil action may be the only remaining option, but of course it is
expensive. The hosting providers, ISPs and banks will defend their
clients' right to privacy every step of the way.
Welcome to the Internet.
-- Tim Starling
There is still the case of the disposable websites that just want an easy
source of content, so they can quickly create a new content-rich site
whenever the old one gets blocked.
Search engines may be more responsive than the government. Interestingly,
it seems like only Google indexes this site; I couldn't find anything on
Ask or Yahoo.