Scroogle gone
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DatingChap
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- Jan 25, 2011
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found this posted 2 hrs ago on news feed:
Scroogle, the search engine operated by privacy militant and self-appointed Wikipedia watchdog Daniel Brandt, has folded for real. After enduring DDOS attacks "around the clock" that sent a flood of unsustainable traffic to his servers, Mr. Brandt took down the search engine along with his other four domains, http://namebase.org/, http://google-watch.org/, http://cia-on-campus.org/, and http://book-grab.com/. His theory is that he was being attacked by hackers with a personal vendetta.
"These four domains had also been on the web for a long time — NameBase first went online in 1997, and before that had been available on telnet since 1995. I spent 27 years developing NameBase," he said in an email, and referred to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NameBase.
"I no longer have any domains online," Mr. Brandt wrote. "I also took all my domains out of DNS because I want to signal to the criminal element that I have no more servers to trash. This hopefully will ward off further attacks on my previous providers."
.. So I guess it's gone for good - quick someone build a replacement - with ads
Scroogle, the search engine operated by privacy militant and self-appointed Wikipedia watchdog Daniel Brandt, has folded for real. After enduring DDOS attacks "around the clock" that sent a flood of unsustainable traffic to his servers, Mr. Brandt took down the search engine along with his other four domains, http://namebase.org/, http://google-watch.org/, http://cia-on-campus.org/, and http://book-grab.com/. His theory is that he was being attacked by hackers with a personal vendetta.
"These four domains had also been on the web for a long time — NameBase first went online in 1997, and before that had been available on telnet since 1995. I spent 27 years developing NameBase," he said in an email, and referred to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NameBase.
"I no longer have any domains online," Mr. Brandt wrote. "I also took all my domains out of DNS because I want to signal to the criminal element that I have no more servers to trash. This hopefully will ward off further attacks on my previous providers."
.. So I guess it's gone for good - quick someone build a replacement - with ads
jharr53301
Compromised Account
- Apr 10, 2011
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Damn, I'm sick about this! I loved using that site!! Used it on a daily basis! R.I.P. Scroogle