The problem is real amateur porn were kicked out because many feared to get verified which means people seek other less reputable sites to upload their videos on. Sites which some don't care about if it's legal or not like pornhub did and of course people will flock to sites that provide what pornhub destroyed. So many shady porn sites will get an income boost from what pornhub did in panic. Would you consider that a win since you agree with the verified only move? I definitely don't. It was a very bad move without any consideration of the consequences. You're supposed to support good sites. What pornhub was. Now it's just filled with professional garbage. I've been on these sites and stumbled upon illegal stuff. I never did that on pornhub. Nicholas Kristof only made the problem much worse. Journalists never consider the consequences. They only care about writing hit pieces.
I've read through the comments. Pornhub debacle is mentioned often.
No one here is mentioning that many people have fantasies like a rape fantasy, a teenage fantasy, etc. A good search algorithm picks up on that and will make suggestions based on your previous searches/watched videos and the videos other people with similar interests have watched. This should be obvious. The videos have bad unspecified titles because it's easier to find. People are unspecified in their search terms. They don't search for "rape fantasy" they search for "rape". They don't search for "feet fetish" they search for "feet". What is it people don't get about this?
I think people should just mind their own business and stop policing what other people do.
"If you don't like it don't watch it".
As long as it's not illegal leave people alone with their fantasies. Don't be so damn judgmental.
It's just sad how sexually repressed some people are and that they think they have the right to control other people. It feels like we are one step from starting to burn "witches" and books again.
these "people" get it. They just don't care if it's rape or a rape fantasy. or in fact just regular vanilla sex between a couple. They want it all gone. For everyone.
> It's just sad how sexually repressed some people are and that they think they have the right to control other people. It feels like we are one step from starting to burn "witches" and books again.
tbf that's almost human nature at this point. Some people just enjoy leading/ruling/controlling others. This is just another form of control for them.
Isn't this the crux of the issue? That's what Mastercard is saying, too. As long as you've super duper verified that this video is legit consenting adults, you're good.
Why not ask for something impossible for them to agree to so they leave you alone? For example "I'll become an informant if you pay me 2 billion per contact and 1 million per week while being an informant". Will that not work?
Besides why didn't you go for a lawsuit? They threatened and harassed you. They threatened your employment, your livelihood.
Not to mention you claim to be a security researcher and the first thing on your mind wasn't to record them and take down their details to publish later on internet.
It's a good punishment. It would prevent those who visits you to do certain work and with their face and name everyone will know what they are, where they live. In case people want to visit and leave some very justified feedback about the FBI.
It's perfectly legal to record them since they entered your home/property. Always, always record!
I bet they left a card so you could contact them. Even publishing that alone is good.
FBI is very afraid of the public light because of this in my opinion illegal stuff they do. FBI must have positive PR. Bad PR means less trust, less informants, etc.
A a security researcher you are supposed to know this stuff. How to deal with FBI, etc. I'm disappointed.
This is hilariously bad advice. Keep in mind that the FBI needs a good relationship with people out in industry and doing research.
Most of the attempts to recruit informants are benign, as I mentioned in my own story elsewhere in the thread. It boils down to being in Vegas the same few days and having a drink and killing time talking about how great America is (yes, FBI agents generally do love their country). It's good PR for everyone involved.
The courts protect FBI and police. [0] Impossible to get a real win from a lawsuit. Getting money is not a real win. [1] No changes will be made. The dude who got murdered by police and caused a riot of criminals stealing and burning down buildings, not even that caused the police to change.
I should add a white person got killed the same way before that. No riots. No news. No screaming crying people in the streets demanding justice. No change then either. The family of that person didn't even get money from it.
First name basis with FBI employees and you didn't do your duty and publish all the information you have extracted from them including names and face pictures. What the hell?! FBI befriends you, that is just their way to get informants. The be your friend manipulation. They are trained to manipulate you. You fell for it hard!
If you think doxxing low ranking federal law enforcement for the high crime of doing their job is _your duty_, then I don't have much to say to you. Antagonizing your government over low stakes is not freedom fighting.
You can be civil with people who don't share the same agenda as you. Shocking thought in today's society, I guess.
I'm guessing publishing that information would create exposure to federal criminal charges of endangering FBI agents (not sure of the exact name of the charge). Then the FBI really would have leverage to either gain a new informant for as long as the statute of limitations lasts or throw the researcher in prison with a criminal record.
None of my social media accounts can be used to identify me. Even when young and stupid I never used my real name on any account. If you're not educated and smart enough to realize what internet is and to protect yourself well then you really shouldn't be on internet. I can't fathom why people connect their social media accounts to their real identity. Is it some kind of ego/narcissism thing? I've never felt the need to make sure my real identity gets credit for doing good things like helping people going through stuff to being a developer member on open source projects.
It would be interesting if someone researched that need. Would be a good addition to OPSEC education.
Windows 10 is a complicated mess. It would indeed be impressive if someone managed to do this with Windows 10.
Compared to Linux Windows 10 is a malicious bloatware operating system designed to prevent you from removing the bloat and the user hostile stuff. Which is why I think it's not possible to do this with Windows 10.
Recently, I bought a laptop with the purpose of installing Linux on it. It came with Windows 10 installed that I had to remove so I had the chance to see how much punishment it could take before it crashed.
As Microsoft has seen fit to make Windows 10's junky annoyances uninstallable, the only option was to install the hard disk in an operational Linux machine so I could surgically remove any program or section that I wanted to. Without the hindrance of a live Windows, it was dead easy to not only remove all the bloatware I could find but also various services, the browser and media player, etc.
It amazed me how solid and hardy Windows 10 was; in fact, even after I'd severely hacked it about I never actually managed to kill it (clearly I could have by deleting essential kernel DLLs etc. but there'd be no point in doing that). The fact is Windows 10 continued to work with huge parts of it missing to the extent that the program was hardly recognizable and it did so in ways that were never possible with XP or Win 7 (yes, I've tried the same exercise with them way back).
I cannot say the approach that I took was very systematic—it wasn't, and except for some brief notes taken as I deleted stuff I didn't document the exercise, after all my aim was to remove Windows 10 and replace it with Linux so any further delay would have been unproductive.
However, the exercise proved to me that wholesale hacking and patching of Windows 10 was not only possible but also that removing some parts of it were comparatively easy (especially the bloatware)—and due to its solidity it's likely that Windows 10 is the best candidate/version of Windows to attempt it with. Given the massive amounts of inbuilt spyware, forced upgrades and heaps of useless bloatware in Win 10, there are rich pickings for those who wish to experiment (just don't try it on your only working machine).
Given my easy success in what was hardly a concerted effort, I'm surprised we've heard so little from those more dedicated and knowledgeable than I am and I'm wondering why it's so (perhaps people are too scared of MS if they publish the fact or they're frightened that if they announce their findings then MS will patch ways around them).
I'd be most interested in hearing any accounts from anyone who has had success especially if they are successfully running a patched Windows 10 sans bloatware and spyware.
I'll finish by saying we need to put the Windows 10 problem into perspective. The last Win 10 ISO I downloaded was an incredible 7GB or thereabouts—as I found out much to my annoyance and chagrin when I first tried unsuccessfully to load it onto a DVD. I would suggest that in anyone's language that 7GB for what is essentially a file-loader program is excessive in the extreme. I recall around the time that Mark Russinovich joined Microsoft that he said that the essential core Windows programs were only about 50MB in size. Even allowing for a multitude of additional drivers and essentially utilities, it really begs the question what all those other gigabytes are actually used for.
Microsoft did an unfortunately great job at silencing Mark Russinovich by hiring him. I really miss these kind of posts from him. I enjoyed them very much.
Including all those useful tools he made and stopped making when Microsoft hired him.
You're right. When I first heard of Russinovich joining Microsoft, I thought oh hell that's the end of a good run and it was. The trouble is that to date no one of his caliber seems to have emerged in what has now been quite a long time (there will be others but we're not going to hear from those doing nefarious hacking). Nevertheless, it's odd that we've heard so few instances of home-grown patching of Windows that would be useful to users.
Of course, quietening Russinovich by employing him is what Microsoft and other Big Tech excel at in spades—that is by buy off any competition or looming trouble.
