My little place to ramble and rant on the internet
I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their stresser honeypot How I stumbled across a fake booter site run by international police, and how they panicked when I started digging What is Operation PowerOFF? Before we get into the funny part, you need a quick summary. Operation PowerOFF is a massive international effort to stop DDoS for hire services. While it includes agencies like the FBI,…
We're gonna hold a talk at the 39c3! How Germany's ISPs cooperate with corporations to secretly block websites Hey! We ( Elias/Northernside and me!) will hold a talk at the 39c3! The talk will be streamed and available to be watched later in archives. Check it out here in the hub or fahrplan . The talk itself is in German, but it will be translated (I guess?) The talk will be about the…
Germany's private internet censorship organization gives up A group of major corporations blocked domains in Germany without courts. That ends now. Our internet is a little freer now, with less censorship by private companies. What was the CUII? The Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) is a private group formed by ISPs and copyright holders. They decided what websites to block, and…
German ISPs are apparently forced to block Pornhub (again) After years of nothing, Telekom has just blocked Pornhub's new German domain. What happened before? Back in March 2023, German ISPs were forced by the KJM (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media), a subgroup of the state media authorities, to block xHamster 1 . Probably around November, they also mandated the blocking of…
A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of. My website: Publishing Germany's secret internet blocklist In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private…
First major internet block in Germany for terrorist propaganda German ISPs now block websites for spreading "unconstitutional content" This is just a quickly typed post to update on a recently changed situation. Al-Manar TV blocked by German ISPs Before net-neutrality was a thing, and ISPs just did whatever they wanted to do, there were a few blocks, similar to that, in the past (we are talking…
Exposing the CUII A private organization controlling what websites to block in Germany-without courts, without transparency. What is the CUII? The Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) is a private organization established in Germany in 2021. Its members include ISPs like Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, 1&1, and Telefónica (O2), alongside major copyright holders 1 . These ISPs alone control…
Fully automatic updating Spotify status... without JavaScript? How I managed to keep my website JavaScript-free while still showing my current Spotify status in real-time. The challenge: A real-time status using CSS only Typically, when you want real-time updates on a website, like displaying the song you're currently listening to on Spotify, you use JavaScript. It's just what you use for fetching…