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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

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From Jake Sully@21:1/5 to Rodger "Diddley" Dipole on Mon Aug 8 07:31:38 2016

Rodger \"Diddley\" Dipole <rodger@diddley-dipole.com> 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

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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.

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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:57a7a8ba@news.ausics.net...

Rodger \"Diddley\" Dipole <rodger@diddley-dipole.com> 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: news@netfront.net ---

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

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