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AR-15.com taken down
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AR-15.com taken down
From their FB page.
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Re: AR-15.com taken down
Well I looks like I will be moving all my customers away from GoDaddy as soon as they are up for renewal.
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Re: AR-15.com taken down
Was thinking the same for the gun club website I run.. I've been planning to move anyway since their hosting is stale, old versions of PHP, etc.. Won't support the next version of the CMS I am using anyway. This is good motivation to get moving.synack2 wrote:Well I looks like I will be moving all my customers away from GoDaddy as soon as they are up for renewal.
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Re: AR-15.com taken down
I am not 100% certain this is what happened. GoDaddy was just the name registrar for AR15.com the site was hosted at Amazon. From what I saw the only problem was with Google's main DNS server 8.8.8.8. It stopped resolving the site name yesterday morning. Googles backup DNS 8.8.4.4 still was routing to AR15.com as where any others DNS servers that were not forwarding requests to Google's main DNS.
Where is gets wonky is when AR15.com tried to bring up their backup site and point the AR15.com name to the backup site. This resulted in redirects from server to server and other general confusion.
Right now, all is working correct, GoDaddy is still their registrar (it can take weeks for this to be changed), Google's primary and backup DNS are resolving the name correctly and they are still hosted on Amazon's AWS system.
Can't be certain of anything, but realistically GoDaddy doesn't have much control over AR15.com since they only registered the domain name for them.
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Where is gets wonky is when AR15.com tried to bring up their backup site and point the AR15.com name to the backup site. This resulted in redirects from server to server and other general confusion.
Right now, all is working correct, GoDaddy is still their registrar (it can take weeks for this to be changed), Google's primary and backup DNS are resolving the name correctly and they are still hosted on Amazon's AWS system.
Can't be certain of anything, but realistically GoDaddy doesn't have much control over AR15.com since they only registered the domain name for them.
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Re: AR-15.com taken down
A long-running universally-available Chicago PD blog has suddenly become unavailable to its readers unless they are "registered" with the blog.
No way of knowing right now, but I, for one, quit believing in coincidences a hell of a long time ago. Second City Cop has long been critical of the Demorat rulers of Illinois in general, and Chicago in particular, so it would not surprise me to ultimately learn that a digital IED had been set off to take them out.
The blog had made mention over the weekend that readers might well find the blog restricted or gone in the very near future, after the spate of wholesale restrictions on free speech that Big Tech took recently. CWBChicago (https://cwbchicago.com/), another non-mainstream Chicago media outlet, has an article on the potential causes, from the innocent to the subversive.This blog is open to invited readers only
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No way of knowing right now, but I, for one, quit believing in coincidences a hell of a long time ago. Second City Cop has long been critical of the Demorat rulers of Illinois in general, and Chicago in particular, so it would not surprise me to ultimately learn that a digital IED had been set off to take them out.
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Re: AR-15.com taken down
Official Statement from AR15.com says it was the "site registrar" that took them down.JEaton wrote:I am not 100% certain this is what happened. GoDaddy was just the name registrar for AR15.com the site was hosted at Amazon.
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I think there's probably more to it than meets the eye. There have been quite a few comments on that site that give a much more accurate picture of how Chicago cops think about the public than was comfortable. Even the local media took notice, to the point where the owner started banning certain terms in the comments. Apparently calling the entire South Side of Chicago "savages" ran counter to the narrative. Of course too, it didn't help that the owner himself referred to somebody who sued the Chicago PD for being kidnapped by the "SOS" police home invasion/robbery crew as an "opportunist".docachna wrote:A long-running universally-available Chicago PD blog has suddenly become unavailable to its readers unless they are "registered" with the blog.
The blog had made mention over the weekend that readers might well find the blog restricted or gone in the very near future, after the spate of wholesale restrictions on free speech that Big Tech took recently. CWBChicago (https://cwbchicago.com/), another non-mainstream Chicago media outlet, has an article on the potential causes, from the innocent to the subversive.This blog is open to invited readers only
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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No way of knowing right now, but I, for one, quit believing in coincidences a hell of a long time ago. Second City Cop has long been critical of the Demorat rulers of Illinois in general, and Chicago in particular, so it would not surprise me to ultimately learn that a digital IED had been set off to take them out.
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There's a statement from the owner on heyjackass.com that raises more questions than it provides answers.docachna wrote:A long-running universally-available Chicago PD blog has suddenly become unavailable to its readers unless they are "registered" with the blog.
The blog had made mention over the weekend that readers might well find the blog restricted or gone in the very near future, after the spate of wholesale restrictions on free speech that Big Tech took recently. CWBChicago (https://cwbchicago.com/), another non-mainstream Chicago media outlet, has an article on the potential causes, from the innocent to the subversive.This blog is open to invited readers only
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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No way of knowing right now, but I, for one, quit believing in coincidences a hell of a long time ago. Second City Cop has long been critical of the Demorat rulers of Illinois in general, and Chicago in particular, so it would not surprise me to ultimately learn that a digital IED had been set off to take them out.
If you read between the lines, it seems like maybe active cops were about to get doxxed by employees of Google.
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Re: AR-15.com taken down
I received a email yesterday about a item i wanted to buy when back in stock, i clicked on the link to show item available to purchase in store only?????
In BOLD letters it says click here to see why you can't make a internet purchase, it then goes on to explain that there online sales was shut down because of firearms sales......
Sooooo looks to me like this is just the begining of the axe drop to any web sites having anything to do with firearms.
In BOLD letters it says click here to see why you can't make a internet purchase, it then goes on to explain that there online sales was shut down because of firearms sales......
Sooooo looks to me like this is just the begining of the axe drop to any web sites having anything to do with firearms.
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Re: AR-15.com taken down
"The Truth About Guns" Facebook page got taken down. It is the "Night Long Knives" where the bad guys keep coming up with more names to put on the list.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/faceb ... ou-can-do/
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Also FYI to one & all, WHO WERE ON PARLER
When it was took down, at the same time it was hacked. 99% of the users info INCLUDING photos,details, was hacked
I consider Kim Komando a reliable source. Article here...
https://www.komando.com/social-media/pa ... 2021-01-14" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
When it was took down, at the same time it was hacked. 99% of the users info INCLUDING photos,details, was hacked
I consider Kim Komando a reliable source. Article here...
https://www.komando.com/social-media/pa ... 2021-01-14" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Parler was not hacked. This guy just used a tool to download all the info that was there. I've done it with much smaller websites. There are a lot of tools available to do this.WhyNot wrote:Also FYI to one & all, WHO WERE ON PARLER
When it was took down, at the same time it was hacked. 99% of the users info INCLUDING photos,details, was hacked
https://www.geckoandfly.com/32437/download-websites/
https://www.scrapingbee.com/blog/web-scraping-tools/
The real takeaway should be if you don't want your videos/pics to have identifiable info in their files, you need to remove that metadata before you upload instead of depending on the receiving website to do it for you. I prefer websites like Parler that don't mess with my metadata because sometimes I really want somebody who downloads the picture to also get the metadata. That way, they don't have to quiz me on what camera I used or where I was.
https://www.canto.com/blog/remove-metadata-from-photo/
As for Parler, it is looking like we shall never see it again unless they win against Amazon.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/parler-wh ... ud-basket/
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Re: AR-15.com taken down
And no big surprise that Twitter is going to be kicking more conservatives off their website.
https://tatumreport.com/secret-recordin ... beginning/“We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now but this is going to be MUCH BIGGER than just one account & it’s going to go on for much longer” he says in the recorded call.
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Looks like Parler has found a new home.
https://tatumreport.com/breaking-parler ... -app-back/Some existing users were already live on Monday morning and the rest should have access by midday after the new servers propagated across the internet. New users should be able to sign up for the service within a week or so, Meckler said.
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But, will that help them grow if the Google Play Store and Apple Store won't allow downloading the app? Still a big problem in my opinion.kcclark wrote:Looks like Parler has found a new home.
https://tatumreport.com/breaking-parler ... -app-back/Some existing users were already live on Monday morning and the rest should have access by midday after the new servers propagated across the internet. New users should be able to sign up for the service within a week or so, Meckler said.
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