Good post, Cindy - thanks for the ping SunkenCiv!
This is very good.
The fact of the matter is, many hosting companies have no idea what is on their servers. It’s often not out of maliciousness that this kind of material is on their servers, but the whole process is automated so as long as someone’s credit card goes through properly, no human ever really interacts with the content unless there is a technical support problem.
I’ve notified webhosts about spam sites and malware sites, and more often than not, once the webhost realizes who their customer is, they immediately terminate them. Keep the list coming. Once you find who the webhost is, send an email to their Terms of Service Abuse office if they have one with a link to the offending website.
ADDING to post no. 1:
Blog:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/199795.php
December 02, 2009
“MEMRI: Shutting Down Cyber Jihad Really Not All that Hard”
SNIPPET: “Two things to note. First, of the five forums let me give a shout out to the akhi at Hanein and Ansar. You know who you are.
Second, we love MEMRI, so we’ll overlook the fact that they get a few details wrong. Like, that RIPE is not a host. As our own Black Flag put this in an email:
“RIPE” does not host web sites, from the RIPE homepage:
“The RIPE NCC is one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) providing Internet resource allocations, registration services and co-ordination activities that support the operation of the Internet globally”
In short, RIPE provides blocks of IP addresses to other organizations. IAISITE.Net for example is not hosted by RIPE, it’s hosted in a datacenter in Turkey.
Note to MEMRI: Use a better Whois search next time. I like SamSpade, but even that isn’t foolproof.
As a parting thought let me note that I said in the headline that shutting down the cyber jihad really isn’t all that difficult. It isn’t. However, there may be valuable information at forums like these. Intel and law enforcement would do well to weigh the pros and cons of shutting down Islamist forums.”
By Rusty at December 2, 2009 09:08 AM
cyber jihad bump
A bit off topic, but since one of the jihad forums are mentioned on post no. 1, I’m adding it here.
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internet-haganah.com/harchives/006748.htm
“HACKING WIRELESS”
(January 24, 2010)
SNIPPET: “Always a popular subject with the brethren in the congregation...”
SNIPPET: “Bro. HackHoila wants you to...”
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
Archived link of a tahadi forum thread:
s88179113.onlinehome.us/2010-02-21/tahadi-a_forum_goes_down-excuses_and_prayers_follow/thread.html
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006778.html
22 February 2010
“A FORUM GOES DOWN - PRAYERS AND EXCUSES FOLLOW”