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The Incredibly Stupid Plot To Hijack a Domain By Breaking Into Its Owner's House With A Gun
CNN tells the story of 24-year-old "social media influencer" Rossi Lorathio Adams II who'd wanted his domain to be the slogan of his social media sites (which at one point had over a million followers on Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter). Unfortunately, that domain was already owned by another man in Iowa -- but Adams came up with a solution:
In June 2017, Adams enlisted his cousin to break into the domain owner's home and force him to transfer it. The cousin drove to the domain owner's house and provided a demand note [which contained "a series of directions on how to change an Internet domain name from the domain owner's GoDaddy account to one of Adams' GoDaddy accounts."] After entering the home, the intruder grabbed the victim's arm and ordered him to connect his computer to the internet. He put the firearm against the victim's head and ordered him to follow the instructions.
"Fearing for his life, the victim quickly turned to move the gun away from his head. The victim then managed to gain control of the gun," court records show. The victim shot the intruder multiple times and called the police. The intruder, Adams' cousin Sherman Hopkins Jr., was sentenced to 20 years in prison last year. Now it's Adams' turn. He will remain in custody pending sentencing. He faces a maximum 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. |
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| Edy Ganem |
I like to stay in touch with the fans via social media a lot. I really get involved through Twitter and Instagram, if anyone wants to see what I'm doing. |
| Stephen Hawking |
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. |
| William Eggleston |
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me. |
| Jose Canseco |
Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use. |
| Jennifer Ehle |
I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would. |
| Michael Badnarik |
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. |
| Malcolm X |
No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people. |
| Umberto Eco |
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. |
| Abu Abbas |
We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. |
| Debby Ryan |
All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job. |
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Guy Robs Someone At Gunpoint For Domain Name, Gets 20 Years In Jail
Yesterday, 43-year-old Iowa man Sherman Hopkins Jr. was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to rob a domain name from another man at gunpoint in 2017. As Motherboard reports, "this may be the first time someone has attempted to steal a domain name at gunpoint." From the report:
Last June, Hopkins broke into the home of 26 year-old Ethan Deyo in Cedar Rapids, Iowa one afternoon and demanded that Deyo to log on to his computer to transfer the domain name for "doitforstate.com" to another account. According to Deyo's bio on his personal website, he is a web entrepreneur who previously worked for the web hosting se...
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This Halloween, the creepiest event to attend might be a mass online social experiment hosted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT is famous for churning out some of the world's top engineers, programmers, and scientists. But the university's Media Laboratory is increasingly known for launching experimental projects in October that are designed to make us squirm.
In 2016, researchers at the MIT Media Lab created the artificial-intelligence program Nightmare Machine, which converted normal photos into into macabre images. (The results were predictably creepy.) The...
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Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service
Former Pirate Bay spokesperson and co-founder Peter Sunde has just announced his latest venture. Keeping up his fight for privacy on the Internet, he's launching a new company called Njalla, that helps site operators to shield their identities from prying eyes. The name Njalla refers to the traditional hut that Sami people use to keep predators at bay. It's built on a tall stump of a tree or pole and is used to store food or other goods. On the Internet, Njalla helps to keep people's domain names private. While anonymizer services aren't anything new, Sunde's company takes a different approach compared to most of the competition. With Njalla, customers don't buy the domain names themselves, they let the company do it for ...
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Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked
Linux.org reports:
Wednesday afternoon around 5pm EST someone was able to get into the registrar account for our domain and point DNS to another server -- as well as lock us out from changing it. They pointed the domain name to a pretty rude page for most of the evening until Cloudflare stepped in and blocked the domain for us.
After a lot of back and forth with our registrar, we were able to get things back under our control. I'd like to point out that our serve...
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thinklynx is like the perfect social media for me. i post a lot on twitter cuz less people can see it than my facebook. so thinklynx is great cuz nobody is seeing it but chawls lmao. and it connects all my weird disjointed thoughts in one place.
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I've owned this bars domain for 2 years now and I keep trying to give it back to them but they rebranded instead lol. I still try to give it back, renews in 15 days. Hopefully it still redirects to my website I guess
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I grew up with a tape of Halloween music filled with such classics as The Monster Mash, Ghostbusters, I Put A Spell on You, Purple People Eater, Adams Family etc. Thanksgiving music though I'm admittedly less familiar with.
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so here is my seo strategy rn. mind you that most SEO strategy is in the form of a link pyramid in the end. (spam links > middle tier links > hq site)
I have my main site EXAMPLEFIRST.com
this is a super clean, legitimate, beautiful looking site with original/unique content and i've done no shady backlinking on (i.e. blog commenting, forum links, directory submissions, shit like that) and it is a highly branded domain that does not use the full keyword in the url. This site has great, human-readable content that either I wrote myself or paid a writer to create. HQ everythang on this domain.
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The answer of course is SPF, Domain Keys, and good rate limiting detection:
Delivered-To: bigshermsemailaddress@gmail.com
Received: by 2002:a8a:114f:0:0:0:0:0 with SMTP id z15-v6csp757133ocp;
Fri, 25 May 2018 10:04:24 -0700 (PDT)
X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZqDKXOhQUT1GAK+UDPEFXu7KR/UmMUHDcgGU+3rLv0vv3va7+uUefcz/TrmTvFD7m5k5Fy+
X-Received: by 2002:a65:46ce:: with SMTP id n14-v6mr2587186pgr.193....
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It's about a domain I just remembered I've been renewing for 4 years (whoops), and a simple project I abandoned - of a more private nature - that I thought you might be interested in. Could be some easy money (small scale stuff).
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