[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: country blocked

[James Diffendaffer]

Are you being serious?

They get paid to spam. 
 
Some spam has recently been posted to CoCo3 and when the accounts were deleted the spammer decided to show who was boss.
Now he's shut out and trying another method.

For all we know he's just using compromised computers in Russia and isn't from Russia at all.  Differences in laws may make it more difficult to track down who he is by using systems there.

> ----- Original Message -----
>OK then who would be paying a Russian Hacker to try to shut a website like
>CoCo3.com? What on Earth for? 


--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "James Diffendaffer" <jdiffendaffer at ...> wrote:
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> I don't think there are any CoCo-nuts in Russia.  Clones of the Sinclair Spectrum were popular there.  I know that had clones of the  8080 and Z80 but don't think they had 6809.  
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> What there are in Russia is a lot of hackers, many of which do it for money.  They probably didn't guess anyone's password, they probably used a dictionary attack on admin accounts.  Everyone should make sure they use a password that combines at least letters (upper and lower case) and numbers.  Avoid passwords that have ever been compromised on other sites as well since those get traded around once they get stolen.
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> Why would the Russians be interested in trying to shut down a website about
> an obsolete 8 bit system like the CoCo?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fedor Steeman" <petrander at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] country blocked
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> >I doubt there are any CoCo-nuts in Russia. There are only a few of us in
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> > Western Europe even, so I think you can block Russia without much worries.
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> > Cheers,
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> > Fedor
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> > 2009/7/13 Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
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> >> If someone among us lives in Russia, could they please try to access
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> >> coco3.com to see if it blocks you? I've been blasted by Russian attacks
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> >> all day long and while I work on a better human-signup process, I've had
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> >> to
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> >> block the entire country of Russia. No offense to any one person or the
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> >> country itself, but I see no other way right now to drastically reduce
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> >> the
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> >> chances of porn or spam being flooded into the forums while I'm asleep or
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> >> at
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> >> work.
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