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  • RIP Kickass Torrents

    From Rodger "Diddley" Dipole@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 21 19:01:02 2016
    Yes, it seems to have gone, but here are details of how they were traced, so good info for other torrent sites, so they can now take measures to prevent
    the same thing happening to them.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-21/how-the-us-government-brought-down-kickass-torrents/7649862


    --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: [email protected] ---

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Jake Sully@21:1/5 to Rodger "Diddley" Dipole on Mon Aug 8 07:31:38 2016
    Rodger \"Diddley\" Dipole <[email protected]> wrote:
    Yes, it seems to have gone, but here are details of how they were traced, so good info for other torrent sites, so they can now take measures to prevent the same thing happening to them.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-21/how-the-us-government-brought-down-kickass-torrents/7649862



    --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: [email protected] ---


    For me the most notable thing about all the high profile take downs is how
    poor was the opsec of the owners. Almost no effort made.

    KAT will rise again just has Yify has.

    --
    --
    Jake

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Rodger "Diddley" Dipole@21:1/5 to Rodger "Diddley" Dipole on Mon Aug 15 06:43:30 2016
    You are right, it's back.

    "Jake Sully" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

    Rodger \"Diddley\" Dipole <[email protected]> wrote:
    Yes, it seems to have gone, but here are details of how they were traced,
    so
    good info for other torrent sites, so they can now take measures to
    prevent
    the same thing happening to them.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-21/how-the-us-government-brought-down-kickass-torrents/7649862



    --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: [email protected] ---


    For me the most notable thing about all the high profile take downs is how
    poor was the opsec of the owners. Almost no effort made.

    KAT will rise again just has Yify has.

    --
    --
    Jake


    --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: [email protected] ---

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
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